Artiste : Ngarralja Tommy May (1935)

Titre de l'œuvre : JILJI AND BILA

Format : 60 x 60 cm

Provenance et certificat : centre d'art de Mangkaja

Référence de cette peinture Aborigène d'Australie : 340/19

Etching on metal/ Enamel spray paint and acrylic on Metal.

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Explications sur cette œuvre :

This painting by Ngarralja Tommy May (1935) deals about the sandhill country, jilji, on and on they go. In between the jilji, that is called bila, flat country. The jilji can be close, or the bila might be really wide, a few hundred metres. Someone might have burnt that country before. You burn it, and its easier to catch a feed like lizard, and the bush turkeys fly in from everywhere to eat the exposed insects. Bush turkey, that’s good tucker! After fire, grasses grow back and the trees regenerate. We travel in this country, wurna juwal, always travelling from place to place! As you move through country, the type of trees and grasses change, and that determines what you will find, in terms of foods and medicine, or other plants we don’t use. At different times of the year you’ll find beautiful fields of flowers too. On cool mornings you can suck out the nectar of some flowers, before the birds do. Desert oaks are best for shade, they grow together in big numbers, but you don’t find them everywhere. This is an easy story, this is not a story about law. I can tell you.

Collection :
Kluge Ruhe Museum of Aboriginal Art -Charlottesville USA
National Museum of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Curtin University Collection, Perth
Queensland State Art Gallery
Berndt Museum of Anthropology Australian
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
Carleton College Art Collection, Northfield Minnesota
Kennesaw State University
Fitzroy Crossing High School
Fitzroy Crossing Hospital
Leewuin Estate Collection

Awards2018
Finalist Alice Price 2017
Finalist Port Headland Art Award 2017
Finalist NATSIAA -General Painting 2017
Finalist Bunbury Art Prize2017
Finalist, NATSIAA, MAGNT, Darwin, NT2015
Port Hedland Art Award, Best work in a medium other than painting 2010
Regional Arts Australia Volunteer Awards, sustained contribution