Claypan ..Yunkunyatjara Country by Marlene Taylor

Description

Artist: Marlene Taylor

Cat#: 31-21

Size and medium: 148 x 39 cm Painting

Title: Claypan ..Yunkunyatjara Country

This story is about my country looking down on Yunkunyatjara country.  All the hills, the rivers, the way my father travelled a long time ago. Sometimes they were full of water after a big rain. You could drink that water for a long time until the river bed really dried up. It was very sweet water. The claypans would fill up after a big rain and all the birds and bush food would be there.  

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Marlene Taylor is a big woman with a great laugh and a huge capacity for enjoying life and creating eclectic art.  Most of her life has been in and around Titjikala, her father working on Maryvale Station as a stockman and her mother in the homestead cleaning.  She attended high school in Alice Springs during her early teens and on returning to Titjikala she worked at the Women’s Centre and then moved over to the Art Centre.

Marlene is a prolific artist and enjoys working across several mediums including batik, painting, ceramics, felting and punu. She played a role in the designing and batiking of several fabric lengths for the Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir tour of Germany in 2015   Marlene enjoys experimenting with ideas and mediums and very much enjoys the reactions of others with the materials she has chosen to use.  Her work can create much curiosity and laughter to begin but is always greatly admired when finished.