Artiste : Kaye Baker

Titre de l'œuvre : Malilu munu Kalaya Dreaming stories

Format : 120 x 102 cm

Provenance et certificat : centre d'art aborigène de Tjungu Palya

Référence de cette peinture aborigène : 23-032

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Explications pour cette peinture d'art Aborigène :

Kaye was born at Ernabella c1955. She spent her early years at the mission before her family moved to Fregon community. At Fregon Kaye worked in the craft room. She moved to Kanpi, the traditional country of her father Jimmy Baker in the1980's and helped set up a small art and crafts room there. She worked, lived and worked closely with her father until his passing in 2010, caring for him in his last years when he was ill. She talks of their conversations about how to translate the stories of their homeland into works on canvas and the importance of continuing the tradition of painting as cultural maintenance. Kaye has adopted a style quite unlike Jimmy's, even though their stories are shared, and a style unique to the wider Indigneous art market. She is also a desert weaver and an expert carver.

“This painting evokes my country around Kanpi. This is the home and story for Malilu. She has been travelling all around collecting wild foods. She has gone into her cave, which is underground and is siting with here wana and wira (collecting bowl and digging stick). She has all the wild foods she's collected:; kampurarpa, kunakan􀀁, waka􀀁, and ngapari. Mai tjuta (lots of wild foods). This area is also home to the Kalaya (emu). There are rockholes and creek lines crossing over this place. The Kalaya mai (emu foods) are abundant. They are travelling around eating kampurarpa, ili, wayanu, kunakan􀀁, tjulpulpa and puli tjuta. All the small stones they gather from the creek bed and eat them too. Tjukurpa mulapa. This is important country with strong Dreaming. This is the story for that old man (Jimmy Baker), my father.

You can find artworks by the artists in the following prestigious collections :

Art Gallery of South Australia
Thomas Vroom Collection, Netherlands

© Photo : Aboriginal Signature Estrangin gallery with the courtesy of the artists and Tjungu Palya.