Note: All available-for-purchase artworks featured in The Shape of Time exhibition can be collected at the end of July, 2025.
All Hopevale Arts & Cultural Centre fabrics featured in this exhibition are available for purchase.
The price shown is per 2-metre and can be purchased in even-numbered metres.
BIRRANGAY BULILIL (leaves falling) - Hope vale Autumn collection 2025
About the Artist - Daisy Hamlot
Born 1937
Language Guugu Yimithirr
Totem Waandarr (White Cockatoo) & Ngamu Ngaajarr (Dingo)
Clan Thuppi Warra
Daisy Hamlot (nee Bowen) is a senior Thuupi Warra elder. She was born at Cape Bedford in 1937 to Ted and Nancy Bowen. Her totems are the Waandarr (White Cockatoo) from her father's side and Ngamu Ngaagau (Dingo) on her mother's side.
Daisy was only 5 years old when her family were removed from Cape Bedford and interned at Woorabinda Settlement (west of Rockhampton) during WW2. The Australian Government considered the Lutheran Missions in Cape York a threat to national security. Life was hard in Woorabinda and there were many hardships; however Daisy and her family made the best of it.
Daisy has fond memories of her time at school and making friends. "Every day we would walk to school and on the road we would pass the same magpie sittng in a tree. If we got too close, it would swoop us! So we would run for our lives! Poor Dumbia got pecked many times on the head".
Daisy recently discovered a love of painting. She is well known for her whimsical paintings about “Guuda” (dogs). “My paintings are about my two pet dogs 7-O and Granny-Boy, they are cute and friendly.”
Daisy belongs to the Gamba Gamba group (senior women) at the art centre. Artworks by the gamba draw on traditional Guugu Yimmithirr Warra culture and contemporary and mission time histories. The women hold deep cultural knowledge of family kinship systems, sacred sites, esoteric characters and totems and are passionate about recording language and traditional stories to preserve and hand down to the younger generations.
Daisy loves participating in the art centre's many workshops, including natural dying on silk, lino print & textiles.
She and the other gamba (old ladies) love to laugh and recall stories of the “Old Days”.
About the Design - Diwaan (Bush Turkey)
"When I was younger, we would go out and collect “Diwaan” (Bush Turkey) eggs during the summertime. The “Diwaan “ (Bush Turkey) makes its nest in the scrub by building a mound; you have to dig to find the eggs."
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