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Birthdate: 5.9.1977 Wyndham
Language Group: Gija
Lorraine Daylight is a young and very promising artist who began painting in 1999, under the mentorship of Hector Jandany (her grandfather) and of the artist Jack Britten. Her father Gordon Barney is also a well known artist. She won the 1999 Ost-Kimberley Art Prize for new artists. Over the course of very many travels through the land of her family, Lorraine Daylight has developed a very intimate relationship to the land and it´s history, which she passes on to her three sons. The themes of her painting are inspired by the stories of the land, passed down from previous generations, about Ngarrgooroon (the land now occupied by the Texas Downs Farm) where her mother Jeanne Daylight lived as a young woman.
Paintings
(No. 285)Hills at Kowinji, 2002
Natural pigments on canvas, 30 x 40,5 cm
In the Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) Daiwul, the barramundi, passed through this country when he was being chased by three women who wanted to catch him. They laid a spinifex net made out of gilgan (river spinifex) across the river, but Daiwul jumped through and escaped. Daiwul came to Nganbun (Wesley Springs), but there was not enough water in the spring and so he moved on to this place called Kowinji (Cattle Creek) where he slipped into the water and became stuck under a rock. He ist still there in the water today. The three women followed Daiwul to Kowinji and turned into stone. When you go to Cattle Creek you must goorarra the women (talk to them in language) to ask them for good fishing.
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