Description
Ochre on Canvas
120 x 60cm
This painting is a tribute to the deep spiritual presence felt across my mother’s Country- Ngargaroon (Texas Downs). The red robin, known as a messenger bird, sits quietly in the trees, its song believed to carry the voices of our ancestors. When the robin appears, we know our old people are near, watching over us, singing gently through the landscape.
The ochre plains, waterholes, and jagged hills in this work all come from my memories of being on Country with my family. I’ve painted the flat, coloured rocks that we once collected as kids to build what we called “ Flintstone houses,” and marked the spear- shaped hills of Garlumboony; places where powerful Dreaming stories live. This hill is where, in the old days, our Gija people traded seashells for spears with coastal tribes, until conflict ended the practice and transformed the hill into a sacred site.
The robin, the slate stones, and the spears all hold meaning echoes of old stories, playful childhoods, and warnings from elders. This painting brings all those places and moments together. It is about memory, connection, and hearing the ancestors sing, still, across the plains.
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