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Birthdate: 1944 Texas Downs Country
Language Group: Gija
Nancy Nodea grew up on the Texas Downs Farm in the East Kimberley region of Australia and was employed most of her life there in various positions: checking the water sources, maintaining the farm roads, working in the dairy, helping in the household. In 1994 she began her painting career, initially under the direction of Rover Thomas und Queenie McKenzie, two of the most renown artist in north-west Australia. She developed her own style and direction, especially focusing on historical themes of conflicts in the last 200 years between white settlers and aboriginal people, for example the story of the white camel herders and of the places where aboriginal groups were massacred near Warmun. She also paints however the landscape of Texas Downs Farm. Nancy Nodea and other artists who grew up there are encouraging and helping today´s youth to learn how to hunt and fish on those lands, to bring them emotionally closer to the lands of their great-grandfathers, to give them the possibility of a return to a traditional lifestyle. The artist finds the time she spends there ´in her country´ is a continuous living inspiration for her art.
Paintings
(No. 283) (Sold)Warrarnany Ngarrangkarni, 2002
Natural pigments on canvas, 40 x 30,5 cm
These are the hills behind Warmun Community. The white hill is manjalji (white quartz) which is kangoroo fat left there by the eagle (Warrarnany) in the Dreaming. In the Dreaming the eagle and the crow were best mates. They used to dance corroborrees every night and competed to be the best dancer. It turned out that the crow was the best dancer which made the eagle jealous. The eagle threw chracoal into the crow´s mouth and wished for him to have a funny way of making sounds. The crow then threw fire back at the eagle, who turned to ash and then to stome.
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