Mornington Island Gift Card with "Love Rocks" Artwork by Ethel Thomas
$5.90
Blaq Flair Blank Card with Mornington Island Artist, Ethel Thomas’s “Love Rocks” Artwork on the front and back cover.
- Made in Australia
- Blank gift card stock printed with soy-based ink with 100% recycled paper envelope.
- Dimensions: 140 x 140 mm
- Royalties paid to artist and their families
- Matching Wrapping Paper is also available.
Warthardangathi Bijarrba Ethel Thomas, born 1946, is a Kayardild woman from Bentinck Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. She paints at Mornington Island Art. Thomas and her fellow Bentinck Island artists have enjoyed great critical and commercial success since 2005, when they began painting at the Art Centre. The vibrant colours and rich textures of their works have captivated audiences in Australia and internationally.
Artwork details: Love rocks, 2007, synthetic polymer paint on linen, 1370 x 910 mm.
Artwork story: This painting depicts special rocks used by Kayardild women to charm men.
Blak Flair is a KickArts creative merchandise project that has been generously supported by the Christensen Fund. The project aims to develop a collection of merchandise that portrays the work of Indigenous artists from Far North Queensland, to promote their work and cultural importance to the broader community.
"Aunty Sally Gabori showed me her paintings when she first visited Bentinck again aGer being away for such a long time. She gave me one because I am her favourite. Now I am doing the same paintings with my sisters and aunties. Its good painting all day to get away from the house and have a break.
"I was born at Oak Tree Point on Bentinck Island or as we call it Lookati. This is on the North side of the island. I was only very small when the missionaries came and took us to Mornington Is. I was asleep when it happened and when I woke up we were on Mornington Island. I missed my parents when we were in the dormitory and we would oGen run away to be with them. When I was older I worked in the hospital and the mission house. Not long aGer that I went to Karumba on the mainland and worked on a cattle station. I moved around a few stations and on one, Esmerelda, I met my husband George Thomas.
"He came back to Mornington with me and we got married there and had my eldest son there as well. We went back to Croydon on the mainland and was gone a long time. When my husband got sick and passed away I returned to Mornington in time for our people starting an outstation on Bentinck Island at Main Base or Ninjilki. Now I live at Bentinck Island my home again with all my family."
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