Edward Badal / Clay pans & Spinifex 36 x 76
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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:This paining is about the claypans and spinifex in the dry season
time, when spinifex, the native plants and the country gets dry.
When the rain comes it makes the country green again. Some
animals love dry season for hunting. Some times we go hunting
for animals for our families.
With the Paru (spinifex) we pull out the whole plant, roots and all
and then we twist it around to make a flat basket (Jitatu) like a
donut ring. Then this sits on the head and you can carry water for
example. The water is in a Kapara like a shallow bowl which you
make from the hard wood of a tree like Parntal (Owenia
Reticulata)
