185-25 – Mangarri and Bush Medicine – BIANCA MUDGEDELL

Artist : BIANCA MUDGEDELL
Title : Mangarri and Bush Medicine
Size/Medium : 813 x 305mm: acrylic on canvas Painting

Biography :

Bianca is a young and enthusiastic emerging artist. She paints the stories of her grandmother; Nora Wompi (dec.), whose Country, Kunawarritji, is along the middle stretches of the Canning Stock Route.

Bianca’s parents are Geraldine Mudgedell and Barry Wompi. Bianca has one daughter, who is also a keen painter!

Born in Derby, Bianca has grown up in Balgo and continues to live and work here. As well as painting at the arts centre, she also works for the community making meals for the elders.

Painting : 

In this artwork, Bianca painted Mangarri (food) and Bush Medicine according to her grandmother’s style, Marie Mudgedell who is one of the eldest artsts from Warlayirti Artists. 

This painting represents the bush food (mangarri) – kumpupatja (bush tomato), karnti (bush sweet potato), tjirrilpatja (bush carrots) and ngarlukutu (bush coconut) – and bush medecine that the women collected together. 

Marie said about it : “We boil it, good for boil and scabies, for skin. Lemongrass, have it as a tea. We drink it every morning for kidney. Bush vicks, we make vicks for cold sick.”