Maralinga the big bomb
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’. In this painting you can see the families camped in their wiltja's and the white people who brought the bomb, camping with their army trucks.
Title
Maralinga the big bomb
Artist/Maker and role
Noreen PARKER: artist
Date
2020
Medium
acrylic on canvas
Measurements
75.5 x 56.5 cm
Credit line
Purchased through The Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation: COVID-19 Arts Stimulus Package, 2020
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
2020/0331
View all works by Noreen PARKER (Australian, b.1964)
This is one of the paintings in our collection.
Subject Auto Tags
Ecoregion
Vertebrate
Natural environment
Textile
Organism
Font
Adaptation
Pattern
Geological phenomenon
Grass