Girndi - Claude Carter, 2016 Isabelle Palmer

Girndi - Claude Carter, 2016 Isabelle PalmerWe find this girndi in my country, it grows in the limestone hills. It is a small fruit about 10mm in size, it is a dark purple fruit with dark purple flesh. It's green before it is ripe, it's a sweet fruit with a strong flavour. We know when it is time for girndi when the little glow insect can be seen at night, this mean's that the fruit are cooked (ripe) The painting shows the stages of the fruit raw at bottom, 1 2 cooked at top and cooked in the

digital recordings and publications that have become In the Saddle - On the Wall contain important historical and deeply personal accounts of a time when aboriginal people were the back-bone of the Kimberley cattle industry

Junjun Jill Jack

But thats another story

They was living there at the station and they would get sick of it and would run away

45 x 100cm

My mother and father lived and hunted here

I lived here when I was a little girl

THIS IS MY COUNTRY COUNTRY WHERE I WAS BORN WALKING WITH MUM AND DAD THROUGH THE LAND

The jila waterholes never runs dry

Simultaneously

It is beautiful country with sad feelings from the past

This painting is all about waterhole called Jarridi