Mother Tongue Bung, 60x60cm Heather Anderson

Mother Tongue Bung, 60x60cm Heather AndersonZachary O'Donnell Acrylic on Canvas 60 x 60cm "In Coonabarabran, on Burra Bee Bee Mission, there is a big mountain called Forky. The children there used to climb it, at the top there was this big cave and Mother Tongue Bung lived inside. She was some kind of historical creature with a long long long tongue. When the children were naughty or anything was going on she would make a loud noise and grumble and the mountain would rumble. Her tongue would

We go down there for hunting and talking and kangaroo

Cook it up and we eat it

the team that Heather supports and her partner coaches

Alroy Downs is a cattle station located 200km East of Tennant Creek and is the place where Heather grew up

Jessie Peterson

My Husbands Country

We just went hunting all the time

her painting of the Ghan train is also a comment on human intervention on country

We can see two different types of spinifex growing in the lowlands and on the hillsides

Rockhole at Kangaroo Gap

The leaves of bush medicine plants found around Iytwelepenty (The Davenport Ranges) are boiled and used to cure fevers

Her refined dotting bring the details of the country to life