Donna Coulthard - Nepouie

Donna Coulthard

Nepouie

mid fire clay, found wire, epoxy, gold leaf

51 x 6 x 22 cm

This artwork is about my homeland, Nepouie. Nepouie means spring-water in Adnyamathanha. The old people sunk the bore at Nepouie in the 1800s to get the spring-water, they would get water for the station for the sheep and cattle. That little piece of Nepouie was given to my pop by the station owners as long as we kept that bore going. That’s how we got that little piece of land. Nepouie is a place where we mustered feral goats on horseback, trucked them down to Peterborough to the meat works. This is the place where my grandfather was born, it is where he died, these drawings in clay are my memories of childhood. This work was produced during a Ku Arts workshop with Regional Arts Funding through Country Arts SA. I received technical assistance in the production of this work from Ashlee Hopkins.