Walka Pulka
Noreen PARKER: artist
When my mother was a young girl about 15 years, the people were living in the bush in wiltjas in the Spinifex Country. My mother told me this story, how the people were all sitting down and they saw a big light and then lots of smoke, the smoke just went up and up and up. The people were frightened they thought it was a walpa pulka (big storm) or the wanampi (rainbow serpent). My Uncle, my mother’s brother had gone to hunt bush tucker in Maralinga Country, he never came back, he died from that bomb, that’s a true story’.
Title
Walka Pulka
Artist/Maker and role
Noreen PARKER: artist
Date
2020
Medium
synthetic polymer on canvas
Measurements
76.0 x 56.0 cm
Display location
Credit line
Purchased through The Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation: COVID-19 Arts Stimulus Package, 2020
© Noreen Parker / Copyright Agency
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
2020/0330