Kathy Ramsay & Tracey Ramsay

Two-way

Each of these six paintings – Blowfly Ngarranggarni, Jack’s Yard, Greenvale, Dick’s Yard, Juwurlinji and Black Hill – depicts a place of particular significance to sisters Kathy and Tracey Ramsay, who live at Juwurlinji (Bow River). They say of these places:

"They are of our Country, Juwurlinji Bow River Country, that’s all part of Bow River Station. Two-way we own that place. Like Blackfella, you know our ancestors, old people, they been know that Country and they know where they belong ... things like that Ngarranggarni [ancestral creation] story, waterholes and whatever there, sacred places. They used to walk left, right and centre, living off the land … When we take kids out, we gotta tell ’em what that name is, that Gija name. What plant, what bush medicine, the name of the thing we eat, turtle or crocodile. To keep it alive."

Artists

Kathy Ramsay
Gija people, Western Australia
Warmun Art Centre

Tracey Ramsay
Gija people, Western Australia
Warmun Art Centre