Patsy Ross b. 1975
Women Collecting Wild Bush Medicine by Patsy Ross, 2022
48 x 146 cm
18 7/8 x 57 1/2 inches
18 7/8 x 57 1/2 inches
acrylic on canvas
TIAA-PR202268
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Patsy was taught to paint by her mother, who she says was the happiest person in the world. Patsy paints various aspects of women’s business, like collecting bush seeds and...
Patsy was taught to paint by her mother, who she
says was the happiest person in the world. Patsy paints various aspects of
women’s business, like collecting bush seeds and other tucker like wild
blackberries and bush onion, and gathering and preparing bush medicine. In
these paintings, she includes traditional symbols and iconography like the
u-shape to depict the women and straight lines to depict their wana (digging
sticks), and variations of circles and roundels to depict sites of
significance, like waterholes or soakage sites, or collection places for tucker
or medicinal plants.
and the abundance it brings her family and community - that Patsy chooses to
depict in her meticulous and precisely painted works. Patsy has an innate sense
of colour and uses this intuition to bring her country to life on the canvas.
