Rene Sundown
1952 - Ngura Tali - Sand dune country 2024- acrylic on linen
"I was raised at Erldunda Station, where my father was working. That's where we lived. No school at all, I just grew up on the stations.
That place is all sand dune country. We would play in the sand dunes. We would just run around and roll down the sand dunes, down we would tumble, down the sand dune and roll down arriving at the bottom. it was really nice back then, playing. we would swim in the claypans after rain time and we would eat lots of bush onions.
These are the paintings I have been doing. This is my thinking and painting (sand dune) memories. Memories of what I saw, sand dunes that we played on. When I'm painting my feelings became strong. and all my memories come back. I'm thinking of those sand dunes and then painting them. This is the sand dunes and spinifex grass. Sand dune country was our home."
Source: Rene Sundown 2024