Women hunting yam by Marlene Taylor

Description

Artist: Marlene Taylor

Cat#: 126-23

Size and medium: 72.5 x 67 cm Painting

Title: Women hunting yam all over the country

Marlene has painted a scene of women hunting after the rain and the water has caused a lot of bush foods to come out and leads the women on their hunting.

Marlene fuses her own unique and contemporary style with traditional designs and motifs.

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.