Goompi Ugerabah

Mugeedah (Body Paint), 2023

153 × 195 × 4 cm Acrylic on Canvas

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Winner of the 2023 Paddington Art Prize

The artwork represents areas on my birthplace and homelands where I go and gather ochres from. On Kombumerri and neighbouring Minjungbal tribal lands. The many river systems, water inlets and mountains is where I gather these clays and ochres from. Mixing them with water we create a paste for our body paint to do song and dance or ceremony. We say Mugeedah in language for ochre.