Balungarr: Mark Nodea
Past exhibition
Mark Nodea Australia, Gija, b. 1970
Out Country, 2020
ochre and PVA fixative on canvas
180 x 180 cm
839876
'Country is where the heart is. When we are here in this little world all the rubbish and the troubles they stick inside of us and we can't get them...
"Country is where the heart is. When we are here in this little world all the rubbish and the troubles they stick inside of us and we can't get them out. When we go out country we open up and we need this.
Come out country and man cleans out all them rubbish, all them bad things: drinking, young people taking drugs, older people taking drugs, alcohol is a big issue.
We are all stuck like that here. When you go out country, country comes back to us. In here we forget about country, with everything we dealing with, we've got shop, we've got roadhouse, we can buy things. Out on country we can go back in time and the country gives you things, you can hunt for things and they are there."
Mark Nodea May 2020
Come out country and man cleans out all them rubbish, all them bad things: drinking, young people taking drugs, older people taking drugs, alcohol is a big issue.
We are all stuck like that here. When you go out country, country comes back to us. In here we forget about country, with everything we dealing with, we've got shop, we've got roadhouse, we can buy things. Out on country we can go back in time and the country gives you things, you can hunt for things and they are there."
Mark Nodea May 2020
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