We Belong To This Country, We Look After This Country: ARTWORKS FROM ALICE SPRINGS TOWN CAMPS
Past exhibition
Betty Conway Australian, Pintupi / Luritja, b. 1952
Illari Spring, Tempe Downs, 2019
acrylic on linen
61 x 91 cm
841243
Every time we go out for the day, the women go for walk to look for goanna while the rest of the families wait back at the camp making fire...
Every time we go out for the day, the women go for walk to look for goanna while the rest of the families wait back at the camp making fire ready to cook it. The crows hang around waiting for the scraps from the goanna.
There is a creek that flows from Areyonga to Illari Spring. When it has water horses come to drink - there are bullocks and camels - too many - all drinking from the creek. This is my country - Tempe Downs.
There is a creek that flows from Areyonga to Illari Spring. When it has water horses come to drink - there are bullocks and camels - too many - all drinking from the creek. This is my country - Tempe Downs.
