Edward Badal / Clay pans & Marshland 76 x 152
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Edward Badal: “I was born in Broome hospital, WA in the late seventies. I went to Lagrange school, then to Nulungu College to further my education and went back to Lagrange. In the late 2000’s I came interested in painting my old peoples country.
Me I like doing dot painting, it’s about culture, land and people. Sometimes I go out with the rangers to look after country and sometimes it heals all of us being out on country.
The painting I do is sand dunes and claypans. Me I use desert colours in my paintings, that represent the desert. My Mother and my Grandmother are Nyangumarta and my Father’s side is Mangala Side. Both of my Grandmother’s were born in the desert country, they both grew me up in the old camp here in Bidyadanga.”
Artwork Description:
All about white claypan in dry season, lalga. I’m doing the dry
claypan. We go out country from Bidgy (Bidyadanga abbr.) and go
hunting for kangaroo and turkey, like that you know? Bush
animals you know? Long time [ago] people used to go hunting by
walking, but now we go with car. When we go dry time the jurnga
(ground} all hard, [that’s when it’s] more easy to see the animal
footprints. Not when it’s scrubby, not when it’s a marsh, that’s
when the ground is too softened then, too boggy.
This is the one I’m painting now, I’m doing the colour of the dry
season, I’m doing all the dots like the sand, claypan, marsh and
the paru (spinifex), all the different Nyangumarta country. I’m
doing all the station, I’m doing the white plain, the marsh and
claypan area. That’s all in the pirla (desert, country). I’m doing
different sort of area; Wallal, Mandoora, Anna Plains, Sandfire
Marsh, Salt Creek. Bush name for Salt Creek is Wallyarra. We go
hunting different places every day. That’s the hunting places.
