Dadina Georgina Brown | National Museum of Australia

Portrait of Dadina Georgina Brown. - click to view larger image

born about 1970, Manyjilyjarra language group, Panaka skin group, Wiluna, Patjarr communities, Tjukurba Gallery

Georgina was among the last people to lead a customary nomadic life in the Western Desert. She was born in the bush and travelled around with her family in the Country east of the stock route.

In 1976 concerned families in Wiluna sent out a patrol to find Georgina and her family and bring them into the settlement.

Georgina still moves across the desert today, travelling between her homes in Wiluna and Patjarr. Her story is told in the 2009 book, Born in the Desert.

A square painting on canvas in metallic colours with a gold concentric circle with silver and copper dots, in the centre flanked by two curved shapes with a wavy inner edge that are outlined with a solid gold line overlaid with silver dots. The two shapes have three horizontal stripes in gold, silver and maroon and are filled with yellow and brown dots. An oval shape at each side edge merges into the back of the curved shapes. There are semicircular shapes at each side corner as well as at the centre top and bottom. These semicircular and oval motifs are filled with curved lines of dots in silver and maroon on a gold and black background. On the dark brown-black background are wavy and straight lines with curly lines extending from them, as well as curved lines arranged in patterns, all painted in a solid gold colour overlaid with dots of maroon and silver. There are also small V shaped lines of white dots interspersed with the background pattern. - click to view larger image — *My Country*

A dot painting on canvas on a black background with a large brown concentric circle motif in the centre dotted with yellow, black and beige, surrounded by blue concentric circles, semicircles and quarter circles dotted in silver, orange and brown. The bottom edge only has one semicircle on it. In between the circles are straight and curved lines with curls on them in brown and dotted with silver. - click to view larger image — *Where I Was Born*

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