Fire and Water 1 YAA162
Artist
Yondee Shane HansenMedium
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AcrylicDescription
Yondee says “Fire cannot operate without water, fire cleanses and water heals, and vice versa. The old people used fire, burning of the grasses along the river as a sacred way of appreciating the land, as the fires make way for new growth; fresh grasses, flowers, and bush foods for the Noongar people and nearby wildlife”. The black and white depicts the land as the rain comes through after fire management.
Noongar artist Yondee Shane Hansen was born in the south-west of Western Australia in 1964, at Dumbleyung, 270 km south of Perth. Yondee was taught about hunting and shown sand drawings by his father. He would travel and visit his aunties on the Swan River and would collect paper bark to help them in their art work. It was here that he started to learn about art from his older relatives who are known for their painting on paper- bark.Try it!
