Anwekkety
Bush plum
930 x 480 mm.
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Dreaming: In this painting, Belinda depicts the bush plum. The conkerberry is known as anwekety or bush plum. The seeds of the conkerberry were dispersed over ancestral lands by the winds and bore fruit in the fertile ground of Utopia homelands. The first anwekety of the Dreaming grew there and became part of the food of the Anmatyerre people. The plant of the conkerberry is a tangled, spiny shrub (Carissa lanceolata) that grows up to 2 metres.. After rain, fragrant white flowers bloom followed by the sweet black berries which only grow for only a few weeks a year. Belinda's people collect and store them dry, soaking them in water again before being consumed. The plant also has medicinal properties. The orange inner bark from the roots are soaked in water and the resultant solutions can be used as a medicinal wash mainly for skin and eye conditions.
Language/Country: Anmatyerre/ Utopia, NT. Born: 1986, Mulga Bore, Utopia. Read artists bio.
Medium: Acrylic on linen.
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About The Artist
Belinda is an Anmatyerre artist from Utopia in the Central desert. She was born in 986 and her country is Mulga Bore. Belinda has strong artistic connections within her family – her grandmother is leading Utopia artist Polly Ngale, and her mother Bessie Purvis Petyarre and sister Janet Golder are also accomplished artists. Artists Kathleen Ngale and Angelina Ngale are her great aunts. She paints the Bush Plum Dreaming story that she inherited from her paternal grandparents. Learn more about Belinda in her Bio.
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