Cungelella Naidoc

Mana Mana 'Night Sky

"The title of this piece is KALKATUNGU country. We paint our traditional homelands heavily focusing on the landscape because it is very special to us, this country is where our father and our mother call home, we were raised here and it's where we are raising our children also, I remember as a child always being surrounded by Aunties and Uncles and now reliving fond memories of our numerous bush trips piled in the back of our 11 seater troop carrier, camped under the stars, eating bush tucker, and listening to our family sing around the camp fire. This country is very rough and rugged, the heat has twisted and folded back on its self and the ochres have been pushed up from the depths with gold and silver and many other minerals which gives us the most unique mineral belt in the world. The peach covered skies mixed with the blues, pinks and purples, points us the well known Kalkadoon sunsets."