Yalka - Bush Onion
Details:
Catalog Number: 15DM050
Size: 100 x 100 cm
Medium: Acrylic on Belgian Linen
Story:
This painting shows the Yalka Dreaming (bush onion) which is situated in a place called Analy, close to Town Bore Outstation. Bush onions grow after the rain and are collected by all the women. The yalka are found underneath the surface and can be eaten raw or cooked in the hot sand next to the campfire. Paintings referring to this Dreaming show diverse motifs such as plants, leaves, seeds, layers or roots.
About:
Daphne was born in 1979 at Alice Springs hospital. She has been painting for several years now and is one of the youngest artists to work at Ikuntji Art Centre. When she was a young girl her Mother and Father passed away. She was raised by her grandmother, Narputta Nangala Jugadai, Ikuntji’s most senior and internationally recognized painter. On the weekends Daphne enjoys hunting and cooking Goanna’s, shopping and looking after her 2 sons, Stanley and Christopher. Her family is very important to her and she spends a lot of time looking after the welfare of her extended family. She is a keen member of the Haasts Bluff softball team. Daphne has an eye for detail and paints meticulous translations of the Haasts Bluff landscape, including flora and fauna. Her work becomes particuarly vibrant after the rains when the newly emerged wild flowers dominate her paintings.
Collections
•COLLECTION SORDELLO MISSANA - FRANCE
Past Exhibitions
•IMG_0028Desert Mob Market Place 2015
•logoDarwin Aboriginal Art Fair 2015
•Beanies Workshop
•Art Parade in Perth/Fremantle
•10923220_773081039423770_8400846426780937579_nin the studio
•21-years-Ikuntji-Artists-Festival 2014 Invite Front21 Years Ikuntji Artists Festival
•Tarnanthi Festival Art Fair 2015
•Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair 2015
•Art Parade 2015
•Artitja: The Gift Collection - Art + Objects 2014
•Around the Campfire - Fundraiser Concert, Alice Springs 2014
•Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair 2014
•Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Desert Mob 2011
•Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, "Desertmob 2009" 2009
•Ballan and Pannan Galleries, Alice Springs, Group Show 2009
•Beckworth Gallery, Ballarat, VIC, "Ikuntji Artists" 2009
•Artequity, Sydney, "Land and Mythology - Art of the Western Desert" 2009
•Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane, 'Ikuntji meets Brisbane' 2009
•Artitja Fine Art, Perth W.A., "Cultural Connections - Desert Stories" 2008
•Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 2006
•Desertmob, Alice Springs 2005
•Indigenart, Perth 2005
COA provided with the painting