Bush Leaves
Thelma Pitjara Long
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About Artwork
Code: EDA-TL3068/23
Artist: Thelma Pitjara Long
Region: Soapy Bore, Utopia, Central Australia
Medium: Polymer acrylic on linen
Size: 91cm x 120cm
Artist Information
Thelma Pitjara Long expresses her Dreaming of the bush honey grevillea in intricate paintings of the plants, leaves and flowers as they grow and spread across her country of Arlparra. Her paintings observe these plants and the landscape from an aerial, often monochromatic perspective.
The bush honey grevillea (Grevillea eriostachya) is a straggly shrub with long, narrow leaves. This plant grows up to two metres tall. It produces long spikes of bright yellow and green flowers in spring and winter, which attract nectar-eating birds.
It is an important plant to the Alyawarre and Anmatyerr women as it originated from an ancestral being who travelled through their country creating the plant. The women perform ceremonies with totems, dancing and singing to sustain and honour the plant each summer. The flowers contain thick, honey-like nectar which can be sucked directly from the flowers and they soak the flowers in water to make a sweet cordial-like drink.
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Ethical Trade Details
Eastern Desert Art is a member of the Indigenous Art Code of Conduct and the Aboriginal Art Association of Australia and sells directly to collectors and galleries nationally and internationally.
To demonstrate provenance, artworks are sold with an Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct Certificate. These Certificates provide the purchaser with information on the artist, the story of their painting (when permitted by the artist under cultural law) and photographs of the artists with their paintings. The artworks are painted on prepared Belgian linen using polymer acrylics.
The local Alyawarre and Anmatyerre artists prepare and work on their paintings at the Eastern Desert art shed located on our property adjacent to Utopia.
