Community Spotlight: Mimili: New artworks from The Bungalow
Current viewing_room
Betty Mula b. 1973
Punu tjuta (many trees), 2023
acrylic linen
152 x 122 cm
349-23
My painting is about the many different trees I have grown up with. Each tree, bush and flower has its own story. In recent years we've had big rains and...
My painting is about the many different trees I have grown up with. Each tree, bush and flower has its own story. In recent years
we've had big rains and many trees that we hadn't seen in many years were flowering again for the first time. With it came many
birds we haven't heard here in many years.
Whenever I travel away from country, I miss the trees and flowers the most. They show us the changes in seasons, show us where
there are soakages, river beds, foods - we can read those signs from far away, it's like my country's own language that I'm sharing in my painting.
Mimili is sited within the beautiful Everard Rangers on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in the north-west of South Australia and 488 kilometers south-west of Alice Springs. Mimili is home to 300 Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people who have been living in the area for millennia in harmony with nature and acting as custodians of the land and the Tjukurpa (creation stories). Mimili was formerly known as Everard Park, which was a cattle station that was returned to Aboriginal ownership through the 1981 AP Lands Act. Mimili Community was incorporated as an Aboriginal Community in 1975.
we've had big rains and many trees that we hadn't seen in many years were flowering again for the first time. With it came many
birds we haven't heard here in many years.
Whenever I travel away from country, I miss the trees and flowers the most. They show us the changes in seasons, show us where
there are soakages, river beds, foods - we can read those signs from far away, it's like my country's own language that I'm sharing in my painting.
Mimili is sited within the beautiful Everard Rangers on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in the north-west of South Australia and 488 kilometers south-west of Alice Springs. Mimili is home to 300 Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people who have been living in the area for millennia in harmony with nature and acting as custodians of the land and the Tjukurpa (creation stories). Mimili was formerly known as Everard Park, which was a cattle station that was returned to Aboriginal ownership through the 1981 AP Lands Act. Mimili Community was incorporated as an Aboriginal Community in 1975.