PROVENANCE
This is Aboriginal Art, NT
Coo-ee Art Gallery, NSW
ARTWORK STORY
Belinda is the daughter of noted Utopian artist Janet Golder and is following in the footsteps of other well known artists from the talented Kngwarreye family, most notably Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Polly Ngale. She typically pants the same story as Polly, 'Bush Plum', and uses heavily layered paint to depict the foliage of the plant.
The conkerberry (or conkleberry) known as anwekety or bush plum, is a sweet black berry that is favoured by desert Aboriginals. They only grow on the plant (Carissa lanceolata) for a few weeks of the year, however Belinda's people collect plenty of them and store them dry, soaking them in water again before being consumed.
The plant of the conkerberry is a tangled, spiny shrub that can grow up to 2m high. After rain fragrant white flowers bloom. This plant also bares medicinal properties. The orange inner bark from the roots can be soaked in water and the resultant solutions can be used as a medicinal wash. This is particularly favoured for skin and eye conditions. The thorns on the shrub can be sued to sure warts.
COMMUNITY/ REGION
Utopia, NT
LANGUAGE
Alyawarre
BIOGRAPHY
Belinda Golder is an Anmatyerre artist from Utopia, near Alice Springs in Central Australia. She comes from a distinguished family of artists — her grandmother Polly Ngale, mother Bessie Purvis Petyarre, and sister Janet Golder are all accomplished painters, as are her great aunts Kathleen and Angelina Ngale. Belinda continues this strong Utopia art tradition through her own practice.
Belinda specialises in depicting the "Bush Plum Dreaming" story, an inheritance from her grandmother. Her artworks vividly portray the transformation of the bush plum (Anwekety) throughout its ripening process, capturing the myriad colours of the fruit. The bush plum is a central element in the Jukurrpa (Dreaming) stories, symbolising the seed dispersal across ancestral lands by the wind, which is a foundational aspect of Anmatyerre culture.
Belinda's painting technique, alike the renowned artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye, involves a distinctive method of loading her brush with multiple colour tones and applying them through a dotting technique. This approach, often executed with the paint wet, allows the colours to merge on the canvas, creating dynamic, fluid representations of her Country.
© Adrian Newstead
PROVENANCE
This is Aboriginal Art, NT
Coo-ee Art Gallery, NSW
ARTWORK STORY
Belinda is the daughter of noted Utopian artist Janet Golder and is following in the footsteps of other well known artists from the talented Kngwarreye family, most notably Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Polly Ngale. She typically pants the same story as Polly, 'Bush Plum', and uses heavily layered paint to depict the foliage of the plant.
The conkerberry (or conkleberry) known as anwekety or bush plum, is a sweet black berry that is favoured by desert Aboriginals. They only grow on the plant (Carissa lanceolata) for a few weeks of the year, however Belinda's people collect plenty of them and store them dry, soaking them in water again before being consumed.
The plant of the conkerberry is a tangled, spiny shrub that can grow up to 2m high. After rain fragrant white flowers bloom. This plant also bares medicinal properties. The orange inner bark from the roots can be soaked in water and the resultant solutions can be used as a medicinal wash. This is particularly favoured for skin and eye conditions. The thorns on the shrub can be sued to sure warts.
COMMUNITY/ REGION
Utopia, NT
LANGUAGE
Alyawarre
BIOGRAPHY
Belinda Golder is an Anmatyerre artist from Utopia, near Alice Springs in Central Australia. She comes from a distinguished family of artists — her grandmother Polly Ngale, mother Bessie Purvis Petyarre, and sister Janet Golder are all accomplished painters, as are her great aunts Kathleen and Angelina Ngale. Belinda continues this strong Utopia art tradition through her own practice.
Belinda specialises in depicting the "Bush Plum Dreaming" story, an inheritance from her grandmother. Her artworks vividly portray the transformation of the bush plum (Anwekety) throughout its ripening process, capturing the myriad colours of the fruit. The bush plum is a central element in the Jukurrpa (Dreaming) stories, symbolising the seed dispersal across ancestral lands by the wind, which is a foundational aspect of Anmatyerre culture.
Belinda's painting technique, alike the renowned artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye, involves a distinctive method of loading her brush with multiple colour tones and applying them through a dotting technique. This approach, often executed with the paint wet, allows the colours to merge on the canvas, creating dynamic, fluid representations of her Country.
© Adrian Newstead
