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Our dynamic artists are from the Utopia region, a large remote area of Central Australia with no government funded art centre. It has one of the richest art histories and is strongly female led.
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“The Dreamtime is the mythological representation of what Aboriginal people carry in their minds. The source of life! This knowledge has not just been planted in their minds, it is taught and structured through initiation and ceremony.” - A.P. Elkin, Professor of Anthropology, 1920’s-1930’s
“The Dreamtime is the mythological representation of what Aboriginal people carry in their minds. The source of life! This knowledge has not just been planted in their minds, it is taught and structured through initiation and ceremony.” - A.P. Elkin, Professor of Anthropology, 1920’s-1930’s
Pencil Yam Dreaming
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November 05, 2021 2 min read
There used to be a little camp next to the Utopia health clinic, a few hours north of Alice Springs, called Jeannie's camp. A stack of abandoned cars blocked it from view of the road but it was there. It made sense for Jeannie to live close to the clinic because she is a ngangker - a bush doctor or healer.
She lives in Alice Springs now but it doesn't stop people travelling the distance to see her. At any hour. And she always has a supply of bush medicine made and ready.
Today she shows me some ilpengk ointment she has made and stored in an old milk powder tin. It looks like a yellowed balm and has a strong menthol smell.
Laid out in front of her is a painting she is working on, with several coloured paint pots that accidentally coordinate well with her blouse and blanket. She is, of course, an expert colourist.
Jeannie has been painting for years and has spent a lot of time with Ahalpere elder Lena Pwerle. She also remembers being around when Emily Kame Kngwarreye, her mother's aunt, was painting three decades ago.
Her graceful handling of a paintbrush makes her experience that much more evident, as she delicately dips a paint brush into three or four different coloured pots before gliding it across the black canvas creating a series of disjointed stripes.
These stripes, she says, are 'anaty' and the colours often remind her of its flowers.
Anaty is the Desert Yam; a root vegetable that can grow so large in the bush that it was considered a staple bush food. Its big, magenta coloured flowers help the people know where to dig.
Jeannie still loves to travel out to Utopia and collect anaty, and dine on food the bush provides. The anaty is also special to the people of Irrwelty, Jeannie's country, in northern Utopia where its Dreaming story belongs.
There are nine beautiful Desert Yam paintings by this ngangker, Jeannie Mills, in her 2021 solo exhibition 🤍
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April 08, 2022 1 min read
We are saddened by the passing of Utopia elder Lena Pwerle last month, as well as the recent passing of her brother Cowboy Loy Pwerle.
April 06, 2022 1 min read
September 30, 2021 1 min read
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