Edward Badal / Nyangumarta Warrarn ( Country) 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:
This painting represents the rocky outcrop and all the different
areas of claypans, and the dark area represents all the jurnga
(sands) in the cool time, warri (translation needed). All the light
yellowish colour represents the paru (spinifex).
I like to go out working with the rangers and all the elders, I go out
Country with them and they show me all the places, all mapped
out with GPS. We mark out all the other places for next time.
Sometimes I go out in the rangers vehicle and walk around the
country and look around for goanna holes. We try to keep an eye
on the animals, [monitoring them,] look out for all the bilby and
skinks and everything with the Nyangumarta rangers. I go in my
spare time because I’m busy you know, I’m busy with my artwork
and council meetings.
In the cool dry time, when it’s a little bit warm, and cool in the
morning, that’s when we do the fire patch burning. When we doing
it also depends on the wind, the warngal, which way its blowing.
We do that because it’s a big part of controlled fired. Wild fires, we
don’t want them, they destroy the animals and their living area,
destroy the Country. We do it too for the regrowth. When I went
back to Country a couple of weeks ago, all the burned up area
had a little bit of regrowth after a little bit of rain.
