"Grandmother's Country & Seven Sisters Dreaming" By Talia Possum Burns

Artist: Talia Possum Burns

Size (H x W): 128.5 x 97 cm

This Painting combines 2 of the Possum families most famous dreaming’s. 
Grandmother’s Country which are painted in very warm colours – you’ll see pinks, mauves, burnt reds and warm greys. The artists have used the iconography that indicated how people used the land. It was a rich resource for food and medicinal plants. Then in a spiritual context they have laid out the symbols to sit across the Country, giving the meaning and context of that part of the land in the painting. 
As well as the extraordinary Seven Sisters Dreaming story. The Pleiades story is about a group of sisters taking off from the land and heading off into the sky. They are being pursued by an older man who’s seeking a wife among one of the sisters, but he is the wrong skin group. It’s a constant drama that’s played out every night in the Australian night sky. The famous Seven Sisters story is widely told by Aboriginal communities right across Australia. This star group sits very low on the horizon and rises just after dark every evening.
It’s an interesting tension between looking upwards into the heavens and looking downwards at the land spreading out before us.