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30 October – 21 November 2021
Freda Teamay: NGURA – Home Country.
Freda Teamay has painted her NGURA ~ Malara, located south of Uluru.
“All land was created by, and still holds the essence of The Creation Ancestors…”
The Creation Ancestors created not only landforms, but customs to be passed on and maintained over subsequent generations.
The sites are linked through ‘Inma’ or ceremony – the singing, dancing and body painting which reveals the laws of nature and provides a blue print for life and a guiding map of country.
Malara holds important Law stories of ‘Wanampi’ or Water Serpents, powerful creatures that inhabit and guard over waterholes.
Freda Teamay is an emerging painter with Maruku Arts. She is based in the Mutitijula Community at the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park where she and her family are involved in land management.
Her Home Country is Malara, and she is following the tradition of her artist Father and her artist Mother, Awalari Teamay. Her father, Malya Teamay, is a well-known artist, Board member and spokesperson for the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. Malya has recently passed on to her the right to paint his Broken Law Story, about the impact colonisation has had on traditional culture and the way forward to reconciliation.
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