Sandy Bore – Ngayuku Ngura, 2024
$1,400.00
Kathy Dodd is a talented artist, weaver, storyteller and teacher. She has worked as a pre-school teacher for many years, sharing her in-depth knowledge of the local landscape and its storylines.
Kathy only recently started painting. In her paintings she finds another means to share her knowledge of the land: Her works are very much topographic maps of her homelands around Sandy Bore and Victory Well. Alongside her partner Sandy she usually camps out on country every weekend, visiting important sites, harvesting tjanpi (spinifex grass used for basketweaving) and monitoring local plant and wildlife populations as part a local land management program.
This painting depicts the water sources around Sandy Bore, connected through an invisible web of underground currents and connections maintained in song and dance.
Mimili Community is home to 300 Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people who have been living in the area for millennia in harmony with nature and acting as custodians of the land and the Tjukurpa (creation stories). Mimili was formerly known as Everard Park, which was a cattle station that was returned to Aboriginal ownership through the 1981 APY Lands Act. Mimili Community was incorporated as an Aboriginal Community in 1975.
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