A Day of Art and Strolling

Today we left Jude to sort out her flight back to Perth, and we went and had lunch back at the Egyptian Kebab shop. Steve read up on some Egyptian history and I caught up on the latest trashie mags. We then walked down to the Monsoon Gallery to Helen Norton's latest exhibition. Her work has really come of age, but we still preferred the curly cows and dogs of her old work, along with the price tags with the latest pieces around 1.5m x 1m costing around $14,000! Since the Gallery was next to Matso's, we had to stop and have a jug of Ginger Beer before we could head off.

Helen Norton @ Monsoon

We also popped into another local gallery Denise Walker, and Broome 6 gallery who represent the Mowanjum people. I learned a little about the Wadjina spirit that was creator along with the rainbow spirit. You can tell the Wadjina by the very large all seeing all knowing eyes. It also represents energy, being able to control etc. This is very much the style of painting that permeates through the Mowanjum area.

Denise Walker

Wadjina from Broome6