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Bush Onion
by Delores Furber Napaltjarri
Delores Furber Napaltjarri was born in 1958 at Santa Teresa in central Australia. Delores paints Dreamtime stories which refers to her father’s Eastern Areente country. This piece depicts the delicious bush onion. These grow just under the surface in sandy country.
They are easy to dig up out of the ground using either a digging stick or just the hands. The bush onion is of significance to certain Aboriginal people who own this Dreaming and totem and can only be collected according to law. This means they have been given stories of the origins of the bush onion, and are entitles to tell stories and paint about them.
Acrylic on Canvas
Loose Canvas
Canvas Size- 120cm X 30cm
Certificate of Authenticity
Delores Furber Napaltjarri
Skin Name: Napaltjarri
Language: Pehlthane & Eastern Arrente
Region: Ltyentye Apurte, Central Australia
Dreaming: Bush Banana, Bush Yam, Bush Tucker, Women's Ceremonies, Dreamtime Sisters & Bush Medicine Seed
Delores Furber Napaltjarri was born in 1958 at Santa Teresa Community; it is about 1 hours drive from Alice Springs in Central Australia. Santa Teresa or the aboriginal name, Ltyentye Apurte, was set up as a Catholic Mission in 1952, so Delores has always had a strong connection to not only her Aboriginal culture and beliefs but also to the Catholic religion. Delores began painting after being inspired by observing some of the women in the community, namely her cousin, Kathleen Wallace, who is a premier Keringke artist.
Sabine Haider, Director Central Art has been working with Delores on and off since 2007. Delores paints a wide variety of Dreamtime stories including several bush foods such as bush banana, yam, and other fruits. She is also the custodian of ancestral spirit Dreamings. All of these dreaming stories have come from her father’s traditional land – the Eastern Arrente country. Central Art – Aboriginal Art Store has a good selection of her various styles of paintings and Dreamtime stories. Delores’s “Ancestral Spirit” paintings tell the story of the ancestral women who would travel around the country in search of bush tucker and water. The women would carry hand crafted hunting and gathering implements such as coolamon’s during their travels.
Delores’s other artworks share the stories of women hunting and gathering various bush foods which were important to collect whilst ripe. During the collection of foods the women would pay homage to the spirits of their ancestors. The bush onion is a regular feature in Delores’s paintings, and it is a significant dreaming and totem for Eastern Arrente people. The fruit can only be collected according to law by people who own this dreaming. Once the bush onion is ready to be gathered (once the top of the plant has died off during the winter) the women would skilfully and systemically dig by hand from one side to the other to remove it from the earth.
Traditional iconography and symbols are featured in all of Delores’s works and she mixes this ancient knowledge with bright colours which is captivating to see. She uses fine dotting techniques to illustrate her stories, which is common for Santa Teresa artists. Likewise, her black and white paintings, with the intricate details almost resemble lace work, blending the old with the new in contemporary pieces of art.
Delores is certainly a talented artist and her artworks appeal to a wide audience. Her works are very affordable and can come in small to medium sizes which appeal to a lot of art lovers for those small walls which just need a little something extra.
This biography was developed by Central Art in collaboration with Delores Furber Napaltjarri through interviews carried out since 2007.
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Product Description
Bush Onion
by Delores Furber Napaltjarri
Delores Furber Napaltjarri was born in 1958 at Santa Teresa in central Australia. Delores paints Dreamtime stories which refers to her father’s Eastern Areente country. This piece depicts the delicious bush onion. These grow just under the surface in sandy country.
They are easy to dig up out of the ground using either a digging stick or just the hands. The bush onion is of significance to certain Aboriginal people who own this Dreaming and totem and can only be collected according to law. This means they have been given stories of the origins of the bush onion, and are entitles to tell stories and paint about them.
Acrylic on Canvas
Loose Canvas
Canvas Size- 120cm X 30cm
Certificate of Authenticity
Delores Furber Napaltjarri
Skin Name: Napaltjarri
Language: Pehlthane & Eastern Arrente
Region: Ltyentye Apurte, Central Australia
Dreaming: Bush Banana, Bush Yam, Bush Tucker, Women's Ceremonies, Dreamtime Sisters & Bush Medicine Seed
Delores Furber Napaltjarri was born in 1958 at Santa Teresa Community; it is about 1 hours drive from Alice Springs in Central Australia. Santa Teresa or the aboriginal name, Ltyentye Apurte, was set up as a Catholic Mission in 1952, so Delores has always had a strong connection to not only her Aboriginal culture and beliefs but also to the Catholic religion. Delores began painting after being inspired by observing some of the women in the community, namely her cousin, Kathleen Wallace, who is a premier Keringke artist.
Sabine Haider, Director Central Art has been working with Delores on and off since 2007. Delores paints a wide variety of Dreamtime stories including several bush foods such as bush banana, yam, and other fruits. She is also the custodian of ancestral spirit Dreamings. All of these dreaming stories have come from her father’s traditional land – the Eastern Arrente country. Central Art – Aboriginal Art Store has a good selection of her various styles of paintings and Dreamtime stories. Delores’s “Ancestral Spirit” paintings tell the story of the ancestral women who would travel around the country in search of bush tucker and water. The women would carry hand crafted hunting and gathering implements such as coolamon’s during their travels.
Delores’s other artworks share the stories of women hunting and gathering various bush foods which were important to collect whilst ripe. During the collection of foods the women would pay homage to the spirits of their ancestors. The bush onion is a regular feature in Delores’s paintings, and it is a significant dreaming and totem for Eastern Arrente people. The fruit can only be collected according to law by people who own this dreaming. Once the bush onion is ready to be gathered (once the top of the plant has died off during the winter) the women would skilfully and systemically dig by hand from one side to the other to remove it from the earth.
Traditional iconography and symbols are featured in all of Delores’s works and she mixes this ancient knowledge with bright colours which is captivating to see. She uses fine dotting techniques to illustrate her stories, which is common for Santa Teresa artists. Likewise, her black and white paintings, with the intricate details almost resemble lace work, blending the old with the new in contemporary pieces of art.
Delores is certainly a talented artist and her artworks appeal to a wide audience. Her works are very affordable and can come in small to medium sizes which appeal to a lot of art lovers for those small walls which just need a little something extra.
This biography was developed by Central Art in collaboration with Delores Furber Napaltjarri through interviews carried out since 2007.
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