Bush trip

$2,340.00

Cassaria Hogan Young invites us on a joyful chronicle of a day out bush with the ladies. A celebration of kupati (cups of tea), storytelling, and the deep renewal that comes with being on country. Bush trip is a vivid retelling, sharing the warmth of time spent with loved ones drinking kupati and gathering bush foods.

Cassaria paints her grandfather Stanley Young’s Country – Mamutjara in Western Australia and Kunatjara in South Australia – places she visited often with her aunty Carol Young, family and kids. She remembers digging for maku (witchetty grubs), collecting tjala (honey ants), chasing tinka (lizards), and cooking up bush feeds.

In Bush trip, you can feel the sun, hear the laughter, taste the tea brewed in a billy over hot coals. You can see the women painting together, telling stories, surrounded by children and vehicles coming and going. It’s an energetic memory-scape of stories and movement. Like her grandfather Stanley Young, a respected Lawman and brilliant colourist, Cassaria brings stories of place and people to life with bold brushstrokes and a free-spirited style.

Cassaria Hogan Young’s mother is Susan Young, though artists Amanyi and Stanley Young have looked after her since she was a baby. Cassaria grew up in Kalka community and attended school in Pipalyatjara. An emerging painter, her works tell the stories of bush trips-digging maku and making cups of tea on the homelands of her grandfather Stanley, around the Wataru protected area, 100 kms southwest of Pipalyatjara. Cassaria won the Kings School Art Prize in 2022.