Station Days, Ration Days : Town Camp Now: New works from Alice Springs Town Camps
Past exhibition
Betty Conway Australian, Pintupi / Luritja, b. 1952
Ilari Spring, Tempe Downs, 2019
Acrylic on linen
46 x 89.8 cm
841241
I take my family to Illari Spring, Tempe Downs Station. There is a creek that flows from Areyonga to Illari Spring. There are emus and kangaroos other side of the...
I take my family to Illari Spring, Tempe Downs Station. There is a creek that flows from Areyonga to Illari Spring. There are emus and kangaroos other side of the creek.
Every me we go there for weekend, 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.
At night, we put scraps same place every time. Dingo comes, eats the scraps, goes away again. We been doing that for long time. Dingo too. No trouble.
Eagles playing round up in sky. Must be rabbit, something.
This is my country - Tempe Downs where I was born.
Every me we go there for weekend, 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.
At night, we put scraps same place every time. Dingo comes, eats the scraps, goes away again. We been doing that for long time. Dingo too. No trouble.
Eagles playing round up in sky. Must be rabbit, something.
This is my country - Tempe Downs where I was born.