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Gimme Shelter : A survey show from the artists of Fitzroy Valley

Past exhibition
21 April - 25 May 2016
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tommy May (Ngarralja), Kurtal

Tommy May (Ngarralja) Australian, Walmajarri, 1935 -2022

Kurtal
acrylic on canvas
90 x 120 cm
831172
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This painting has song and story, singing and dancing. And Inarra. This is the digging, singing, and dancing that happens when the waterhole is dug, to bring the rain. Its...
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This painting has song and story, singing and dancing. And Inarra. This is the digging, singing, and dancing that happens when the waterhole is dug, to bring the rain. Its a ceremony for digging the Jila and bringing the rain. On and on, this story has been told and passed on. There's only three of us now, who were taught by the old people, po’bulla (poor fella). We went to Kurtal in 2014, a big trip. It was cool weather time, and the claypan was all dried up, the trees that were living last time, had died.
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