Japirnka - Rosie Tarku King, 2016 bush tucker

Japirnka - Rosie Tarku King, 2016 bush tuckerThis painting is Japirnka waterhole, my country, with turtutjarti tree (Desert Walnut), grass and also flowers growing all around the waterhole. Rosie Tarku King Acrylic on Canvas 90 x 90cm Please Note: All artworks on canvas are delivered un stretched and rolled to ensure safe and efficient delivery. All artworks purchases will include artist biographies and certificates of authenticity (sent separately).

The jila (living water) never runs dry

All the pretty colours are the seeds that fall from the trees

the seed burns

This was a period characterised by injustice and displacement

Mayapu Elsie Thomas

it destroys the bush onion that grows in the sand

We're trying to teach them about the blue tree and trying to save their lives

This painting is all about (Jurnta bush onion ) White and green represent the jurnta isn't ripe cook and the black represent the jurnta is ripe

Decorative boomerang

This how my people use to walk from waterhole to waterholes until there reach any waterhole from hard day walk from hunting kulyayi is the mean waterhole for my people we use to live here with our families my many year ago until we left our country we move to cattle station where we use to live now we live in town

through the hot times in the summer

This is my mother and my father's country called Jupurr