Songlines Jap-020908
Artist
Yondee Shane HansenMedium
PaintingMaterial
AcrylicDescription
Yondee Shane Hansen speaks of the Songlines as the major Dreaming stories that link land and people and Creation narratives. The songlines follow the journey of water sources and of ancestral spirit forces that walked the land and created the landscape and all its features. Songlines assist people to travel vast distances by naming the locations and their resources, as a map showing the country ahead.
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!
