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Artist: Diane Kemarre Ross
Artwork: Diane Kemarre Ross - My Country
Size: 122cm x 61cm
Acrylic on Linen: Artwork delivered rolled.
View Artwork In: Balmain East shop
Artwork Reference: 105-25
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"This is my country, it's the country around Irrultja. This is where we like to go after big rain. After big rain there, we can go swimming. There is always good hunting on my country. It is good for me to paint my country and it makes me feel good."
Diane was born in Alice Springs and grew up in an outstation called Irrultja. Growing up in Irrultja it was very quiet, and Diane would go hunting and collect bush medicine with her family. Diane began school in Irrultja and then went onto college in Alice Springs where she met good friends, it was a happy time.
Diane lives in Ampilatwatja now and has her own family, two children a girl and a boy. She still visits family in Irrultja and they all go hunting and collect bush medicine together.
She began painting when she moved to Ampilatwatja and would watch and learn from her Aunty Rosie Ngwarraye Ross and her big sister Margaret Kemarre Ross who are both successful painters from Ampilatwatja. Diane enjoys painting bush medicine that she finds when travelling out bush.
This original Aboriginal artwork will also make a special Australian gift for birthdays, Christmas and as a wedding or anniversary present.
This original Aboriginal artwork is from the Artists of of Ampilatwatja
The Artists of Ampilatwatja community was established in 1999, 325km north east of Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in the Northern Territory. Ampilatwatja lies on Aherrenge country, the land of the Alyawarre people.
The work produced by the artists is unique and recognisably distinct from other Aboriginal artistic communities. The paintings pay homage to the significance and use of traditional bush medicine. They depict the traditional knowledge of dreaming and country through the translation of waterholes and soaks, bush medicines, mountains and sand hills.
In keeping with the religious laws, the artists reveal only a small amount of knowledge to the uninitiated. The information that is held sacred to the artists is concealed from the public and layered underneath the common visual narrative, masked by the delicate layered dots of the painting.
The art centre helps keep culture strong and is proudly an Aboriginal owned and governed corporation which supports ethical practice in the creation and sale of indigenous art.
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