Scarf | Cotton | Damien and Yilpi Marks | Ceramics ambient glow

ambient glow

These ties a produced through working directly with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art centres

These cotton bags

Artist: Mitjili Napurrula

About Shirley Purdie

Scarf | Cotton | Damien and Yilpi Marks | Ceramics ambient glowThis is a teaching painting, describing a dry season in Damien's homeland, Mount Liebig, in the Northern Territory. It illustrates aspects of landscape and culture that was told to Damien by his great grandparents. Women sit with children collecting bush potatoes (the red shapes at the top of the painting) and are preparing for inma (ceremony). One man, wati, sits down with his waru (spear). Controlled burnings are taking place as the spinifex is dry,