Blue Tongue, 2024

$3,500.00

  • 120cm x 90cm x 14cm
  • 2024
  • Acrylic on Canvas
  • Catalog No: 1145-309/24

This story is of the blue tongue lizard. How this blue tongue been travel through there when there was a big flood. The blue tongue try move around to find high places. Moving through limestone, getting through the flood to high ground.

The red ground is all the high ground, the black is the limestone. Once she came up she made three waterholes. That top one is where she is today.
This place around Minmingulla.

The two owl holding powerful area. Top is the catfish story and the bottom one is the story for the goanna.

I’ve been there. My grandmother always told me you can’t paint a country unless you’ve been there. You bless yourself from these waterholes, then you can talk about that country, you can paint him.

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