Maryvale Station

$1,000.00

All the stockmen bring some cattle, put them in the yard at Maryvale Station. One man cooking damper, making tea. And one bloke bring some cattle down and one with a whip. Two blokes sitting, talking about the sunset going down, really nice. Two kids waiting for mother to come down with three dogs. They are sitting on the swags waiting for tea and damper. 

Elizabeth Douglas’ mother was from Indulkana (Yankunytjatjara side), and her father was Musty Syddick, who was born at Hermannsburg Mission. Elizabeth and her younger brother Roy Douglas were raised by the Douglas family from Walinynga (Cave Hill). The family moved a great deal as the parents worked in various jobs in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and then on pastoral stations and in various communities including Amata, where Elizabeth lived for a long time as a child.

Elizabeth learned to paint while living in Mutitjulu, where she painted the Seven Sisters Tjukurpa associated with the Douglas family’s site, Walinynga. But once her partner passed away, she moved back to Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and has been painting alongside her ‘sister from one father’, Tangentyere Artists’ Marjorie Williams.