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Before Country
$4,500.00
Before Country was full. Birds flying around everywhere in the sky. Before there was cow, horse, camel and donkey there was emu, snake, goanna, ant, butterfly, thorny devil, mouse, echinda, even goose, big one. Goose been all hunted now. Before, all the animals they come together at the waterhole to drink.
Rona Rubuntja was born in 1970 and is the niece of famous watercolourist and elder Wenten Rubuntja. She joined the Hermannsburg Potters in 1998, and has since established herself as one of the most prominent senior artists of the group, participating in exhibitions across Australia and internationally, including her first solo exhibition, ‘Down the Road from Ntaria’, which opened at Sabbia Gallery in Sydney in November 2022. Rubuntja’s joyous style is distinctive, humorous and imaginative, and her storytelling ability comes across most strongly in her figurative work. She remains inspired by contemporary life in Ntaria, and her work often includes depictions of cattle and brumbies roaming country, heading out to the outstation in a Toyota, and collecting bush tucker with her extended family. In January 2024 Rona was invited to exhibit, present and demonstrate her work at the Indian Ceramics Triennale in New Delhi, India.
