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Pansy Hicks
My current role
Roebourne Art Group Artist
Region
Western Australia - PilbaraMy background
Pansy Hicks is a Ngarluma woman who lives in Roebourne. Her country is Parrkapinya (Whim Creek) and she belongs to the Burungu skin name. She paints about the country, or Ngurra and bush tucker. She explains one of her bush tucker paintings: My painting has sweet potato mardirda ; wogallu a nut from the bloodwood tree you know... like a coconut hanging down... open it up.. you eat the inside part... badjila... desert passion fruit... im got them seeds inside... they're green then they yellow... see the skin just peeling off... see the skin inside.... Its the wet season when its ripe... wajudju... bush banana ... might be season now. Wild tomatoes.. galangul.... Got some seeds in the background too.
Biography
Ngurra Nyingu
Woodside Emerging Artists Exhibition Perth November 2008
Colours of our Country
QV1 Building Perth September 2008
Ngurra & Thugurda (Country and Bush Tucker)
Hogarth Galleries Sydney September 2008
Marni Bura (Markings on the rock)
Indigenart Melbourne May 2008
Galbraith's Store, Emerging Artists Exhibition
Cossack July 2008
Cossack Art Award
Cossack July 2008
Finalist National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Art Award 2008
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
| Contact | : | Sharmila Wood, Manager |
| Phone | : | 08 9182 1396 |
| Fax | : | 08 9182 1899 |
| : | roebourneart@bigpond.com | |
| WWW | : | http://www.roebourneart.com.au |