CARMEN PITJARA JONES
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Artist Profile · Northern Territory
Carmen Pitjara Jones
Alyawarr artist from Irrultja, Utopia, painting the Bush Onion Dreaming.
Skin name
Pitjara (also spelled Petyarre)
Language group
Alyawarr
Community
Irrultja, Utopia, NT
Dreaming
Bush Onion
Family
Carmen Pitjara Jones lives with her partner and child at Irrultja in the Utopia region. She comes from a family of respected artists that includes Joy Kngwarreye Jones, Freddy Kngwarreye Jones and Charlie Petyarre Jones.
Bush Onion Dreaming
The Bush Onion Dreaming tells of the bush onion and the origins of the Alyawarr people and their language. Carmen learned these stories from her mother, which gives her the right to tell and paint them.
Her paintings show the bush onion growing thickly after the summer rains. Its small tubers form on short runners and are a traditional bush food, dug from creek banks once the onion grass has dried off.
Bush tucker
Creation story
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