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In Town, Out Bush: New works from the Town Camp Artists

Past exhibition
17 February - 9 March 2023
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Kumantjayi Napangardi (Joanne) Wheeler, Road to Hermannsburg from Alice Springs, 2023

Kumantjayi Napangardi (Joanne) Wheeler

Road to Hermannsburg from Alice Springs, 2023
acrylic on linen
76 x 56 cm
12535-23
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Cars travelling to Alice Springs and coming back to Hermannsburg. Shopping, people shop in Alice Springs, and go to hospital, stay in hospital. From hospital with family go back home....
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Cars travelling to Alice Springs and coming back to Hermannsburg. Shopping, people shop in Alice Springs, and go to hospital, stay in hospital. From hospital with family go back home.

Lot of people coming to Hermannsburg Community and people come from all over and come and go all the time. They come to Alice Springs, stay with family at Town Camps, visit with family, then do their shopping and go back again to Hermannsburg. And the big truck brings fuel to Hermannsburg. And some people come on bush bus. Busy, busy road.

So they all on that road, and they looking, looking everywhere they going. There goanna there, crossing road to get to new place. There's all the birds in the sky. Wild dingo there. Donkey, cattle, horses. They all there. And bush bananas they grow there. People see those bush bananas and say 'Stop the car' to driver. 'We want to collect all the bush bananas, eat em!', and those goannas, they go from one side Of road to other one for new area, new food.

If people see goanna on road they hit him, kill him, take him home, cook him up and eat him. And dingoes, they watching goanna too, looking down from up on the sandhill. They want to hunt that goanna. They want to cross road but they frightened to cross because they see another car coming.

People watching what's going on round em, and see all the animals, birds, fruit... everything. They looking out as they on the road saying 'Oh, that's lovely Country!' They see everything and say 'Oh, nice Country! Lovely Country!'
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