Ochre Dreaming: Stories from the East Kimberley

A Collection of Fine Warmun Aboriginal Art - 2009

Ochre Dreaming: Stories from the East Kimberley

A Collection of Fine Warmun Aboriginal Art - 2009

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by MADIGAN THOMAS of Warmun Artists. The title is Flat Rock. [WAC 102/09] (Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by MADIGAN THOMAS of Warmun Artists. The title is Flat Rock. [WAC 102/09] (Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas)
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MADIGAN THOMAS (dec)

Flat Rock
WAC 102/09
Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas
 Flat Rock | WAC 102/09
Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canva…
 80 x 60cm | 31.5 x 23.62in
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This painting depicts country on the Warmun side of Violet Valley. The green in the painting is a flat rock, and you have to be careful if you go there. Madigan says, "As soon as the young people go to that flat rock, especially the yound men, it makes a big wind. Too much rain come."

"Old fellows from Greenvale (station) they went there, hunting and nearly got drowned. It’s just the young man not supposed to go there. Otherwise they might get drowned. That’s the law. You have to be welcomed there, it’s bad country. You have to let the old people go first. They talk with the water, they bless him (young men) with the water and he be right. Aboriginal name for the water there is kayarning. The old people talk to Goolabal. (Goolabal is the Rainbow serpent) He was bad before, he drowned too many people."

The red in the painting depicts the red soil of the area. Madigan says, "red soil is where they went to get the kangaroo. No water until Bow Creek yard. Long way away."

This painting depicts country on the Warmun side of Violet Valley. The green in the painting is a flat rock, and you have to be careful if you go there. Madigan says, "As soon as the young people go to that flat rock, especially the yound men, it makes a big wind. Too much rain come."

"Old fellows from Greenvale (station) they went there, hunting and nearly got drowned. It’s just the young man not supposed to go there. Otherwise they might get drowned. That’s the law. You have...