Patsy Long

Utopia Art Centre

“Living at Mount Skinner, for a long time for all the time when I was a little girl. My granny been teaching me lots of things, flour we been make everything, we grew them up and crushed them. Cabbage, lettuce and everything on the station. My grandmother, Katie William, she was working there and grew me up there at the station. I was a little one, I been come back here to Indaringinya, we went everywhere over our country. Amaroo Station we been live there, my aunties, my bothers, plenty family. Ampilawatja we been sit down there for a long time too, we been everywhere. I been come back down to Utopia Homestead to work with batik and after we been working on canvas at Arlparra. Then I been doing work at Bachelor, we been doing the whole lot, working computers everything. Our fathers they been pick us up and take us there for Bachelor.”