Irene Namok – I no more speak…rainforest tell my story about who I am

Senior Lockhart River/Kanthanapu artist describes her paintings in her very first solo exhibition with Art Mob as “Sunlight coming down rainforest canopy”
“Kutini- Payamu (Iron Range) home for Cuscus, Ulysses butterfly, cassowary, dingo, riflebird, emerald python, eclectus parrot, green-backed honeyeater, palm cockatoo, northern scrub-robin and plenty more”
“Them rainforest canopy top that shelter my people for 40,000 years and hide them army in world-war 1 and world war 2 from bad army”
“Yeah…it’s all there in one place, my rainforest I show you now in my painting”
“If you quiet, you can hear the swaying canopy open up for first light and last light”
“I no more speak…rainforest tell my story about who I am”…