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Artist: Eileen Kemarre Bonney
Artwork: My Mothers Country - Eileen Bonney
Size: 51cm x 51cm
Acrylic on Linen: Artwork delivered rolled.
View Artwork In: Balmain East shop
Artwork Reference: 805-24
Original Aboriginal art for sale by Eileen Kemarre Bonney.
The community of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint ‘altyerr’ dreaming stories like most Aboriginal artists. Instead the artists paint their country where those stories sit.
Eileen has painted 'Tijamburra', her mothers country.
"This is my mothers country, we go hunting there for wild onions, goannas, echidnas and sugarbag honey in the trees. I like to hunt there, there's water all year round. Even if it doesn't look like there is, we follow the bird tracks to know where to dig and we find water."
From living here in the remote community of Ampilatwatja, going hunting out bush and traveling for family and ceremonies Eileen knows this land, her country.
Buy this original Aboriginal artwork for the home or your workplace for a true statement piece of decor.
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.
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