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We Belong To This Country, We Look After This Country: ARTWORKS FROM ALICE SPRINGS TOWN CAMPS

Past exhibition
26 February - 25 March 2021
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Doris Thomas, First Proper Tin Sheds, Titjikala, 2019

Doris Thomas Australian, Luritja, b. 1948

First Proper Tin Sheds, Titjikala, 2019
acrylic on linen
39 x 122 cm
841171
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These days were when the first proper houses made from tin were built at Titjikala community. Before this our village on Maryvale Station was just a big mob of humpies....
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These days were when the first proper houses made from tin were built at Titjikala community. Before this our village on Maryvale Station was just a big mob of humpies. Then I think the early 1980s these tin shed houses were built. Before then we had no tap, no electricity, no nothing. Just had humpies. No power - only candles, when we had them. Cooking by the fire. We had a big mob of camels - my father was cameleer, but no one had cars. Then they built these proper houses. They were really hot though. No fans or aircon then... proper hot they were. Irritja in the air here. Irritja [Wedge Tailed Eagle] Tjukurrpa belongs here.
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