Aunty Marlene Hinch drawing – Courtesy Euraba Artists
“I love doing my art, going fishing and cooking johnnycakes down the river. I love doing all them today, I feel so good in myself when I am doing my these things also I love singing. I like listening to stories from elders around the fire.”
Marlene Hinch (Aunty Marlene)
Marlene Hinch was born in Moree in 1949. As one of the nine founding members of the Euraba Artists & Papermakers company and is well known for her ochre papers. Her current work draws on the collection of bush foods and the stories handed down to her by her elders.
Honey cells is about bush honey. One day the elders took us to this tree, He showed us how to get the honey out of the cells, it was so good, We’d suck the honey straight from them. We would take billycans and fill them up with the honey, we enjoyed doing that.
Napan is a fruit from a native bush, we also call it wild passionfruit. It grows all around and it is really delicious. Water was collected from rock wells.
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Selected Exhibitions
2016 – Another Country – Art Aborigene Contemporain – IDAIA at Passage du Grand-Cerf, Paris, France
2015 – Miri, Boomalli Gallery, Sydney and Moree Plains Regional Gallery, Moree NSW
2014 – Elders and Emerging. Boomalli Gallery, Sydney
2013 – Illuminate, Boggabilla oval and Art Gallery of NSW
2012 – The River, collaboration with Monika Gryzmala for the 2012 Biennale of Sydney
2005
22nd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art Award Finalist for collaborative Euraba work “the River”
Goomeroi Artists from Boggabilla, Moree Plains Regional Gallery.
Euraba Paper Artists, Muswellbrook regional Arts Centre, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Gunnedah Regional Gallery
Paperworks, Cowra Regional Gallery
2004
Landmarks – artist Books, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD
Euraba Paper Artists, Moree Plains Regional Gallery, NSW
2000 – 2004 – Paper as Object, (Bagaay Mural) travelling exhibition toured nationally, Noosa Regional Gallery, Grafton Regional Gallery, Bega Valley Regional Art Gallery, and Tamworth Regional Gallery.