“We all live underneath the same sky.”
New Zealand born, Hinerangi Tukere came to Irrunytju in 2004. This
country has become her new home and she lives here with her partner, an
Irrunytju native and their two children. Hinerangi paints combining the two
styles of her Maori homeland and the new country and cultures of Irrunytju that
have become her own.
Hinerangi talks about her painting, “The Burnt Place”:
“These are the things I have learnt going on
bush trips to Watarru with the Minyma in my new country. Ivy Laidlaw, my
mother-in-law and her friends. This is where the fire starts and then it
spreads across the land. The white colour is the trees which after the fire
leave white ash. Here are the rockholes and wildflowers. See over here where it
is still green. We found this place where the fire hadn’t touched. This is
where we discovered mingalpa (bush tobacco) alongside the creek bed. “
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