Jan Griffiths Gunjaka Australian, Miriwo ong, Ngarinyma, b. 1971
Woorilbem, 2019
natural pigment on canvas
60 x 60 cm
5879-19
This painting is based on my mother's mother, Dinah, my grandmother. As a young girl she would go to Woorrilbem billabong to collect the waterlily flower right down to the...
This painting is based on my mother's mother, Dinah, my grandmother. As a young girl she would go to Woorrilbem billabong to collect the waterlily flower right down to the roots and also mussels as bush tucker. My grandmother first saw a gardiya (white man) there and she ran and hid in the billabong. Scared and frightened she stayed very quiet until the station manager and tracker were out of sight.