Artiste : Theresa Baker

Titre de l'œuvre : Minyma Malilunya - Dreaming Time stories

Format : 150 x 90 cm

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

Référence de cette peinture aborigène : 17-249

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Explications pour cette peinture Aborigène :

This is the country for Malilu. She is a creation being from the Tjukurpa (Dreamtime). Minyma Malilu nyinanyi wana ngka munu piti (the woman Malilu is siting with her digging stick and collecting bowl). She has been dancing, performing Inma important ceremonial dancing for this country and she has left her dancing tracks behind in the sand. Malilu was a crippled woman and her two daughters had run off to get married, leaving her to fend for herself. It was very hard for her to collect bush foods and water because she had to drag her leg as she walked. Through much effort she collected

kampurarpa, wiriny-wirinypa, tawalpa munu mai kutjupa-kutjupa ( desert rasins, bush tomatoes, berries and many different kinds of wild foods).

Teresa spent much of her youth with her grandfather Jimmy Baker, learning about the country and the sacred stories associated with it. Today she works full-time at Murputja school and is passing on the knowledge she learned to the next generation. She continues her teacher training with annual courses and cares for 5 children, still finding time to paint in school holidays and evenings.

While Teresas paintings have qualities reminiscent of her late grandfather Jimmy Baker (her teacher and mentor), she has found her own individual way of mark-making and using iconography. Like her grandfather, she utilises the power of negative space, which paired with her own self-taught understanding of nuance in the use of colour, create dramatic effects in her paintings.

Collections
Artbank, Australian Government National
Levi And Kaplan Collection, Seattle, Usa
Thomas Vroom Collection, Netherlands
University Of Qld Art Museum, St Lucia, Queensland
W & V Mcgeoch, Melbourne, Victoria
Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria