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Bush Leaves - TL3021/22,
2022
Thelma Pitjara Long
Painting : acrylic
92 x 120 cm 36.2 x 47.2 inch
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92 x 120 cm 36.2 x 47.2 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: Australia
The bush honey grevillea (Grevillea eriostachya) is a straggly shrub with long, narrow leaves. This plant grows up to two metres tall. In spring and winter it produces long spikes of bright yellow and green flowers, which attract nectar-eating birds.
It is an important plant to the Alyawarre and Anmatyerr women as it was originated by an ancestral being who travelled through their country creating the plant. The women perform ceremonies with totems, dancing and singing to sustain and honour the plant each summer. The flowers contain thick, honey-like nectar which can be sucked directly from the flowers and they soak the flowers in water to make a sweet cordial-like drink.
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Skin name: Pitjara
Language group: Alyawarre
Region: Soapy Bore, Utopia, NT
Dreaming: Bush honey grevillea - tharrkarr
Thelma Pitjara Long born in June 1979 is an Alyawarre artist from Soapy Bore, Utopia 270kms north east of Alice Springs. She was taught to paint by her aunties who painted their stories of awelye- the word used to describe the painted designs on the body, and the ceremonial teachings through painting, song, dance and totems.
Thelma Pitjara paints the leaves and flowers of bush honey grevillea (tharrkarre) - an important plant in this country because of the sweet honey found in its flower. The honey is usually sucked straight from the flower, or the flowers can be steeped in water to make a sweet drink.
Her paintings observe these plants and landscape from an aerial perspective and are usually monochromatic.
Exhibitions:
2019: Prairie Hotel, Parachilna, South Australia
2020: Prairie Hotel, Parachilna, South Australia
2021: Without Pier, Melbourne
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