Balgo
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Balgo , also called Wirrimanu , is a small Aboriginal settlement in Western Australia . The location is on the Tanami Track between the Great Sand Desert and the Tanami Desert , 280 km southeast of Halls Creek and 830 km northwest of Alice Springs . It houses a large Aboriginal artist cooperative.
place
The founding of Baldo goes back to the Aboriginal mission station Balgo Hills , which was built about 20 km west of today's Baldo in the 1940s and was abandoned in the 1960s due to lack of water.
The unpaved Tanami Track leads through today's location. Baldo consists of about 70 houses. There is a gas station, a supermarket, a Catholic church and school, an arts and cultural center, a clinic and a police station.
The local Luurnpa School writes and illustrates its teaching materials on CDs or DVDs in English and in Kukatja, one of the Aboriginal languages of the Western Desert . The school has also published a dictionary of the Kukatja language.
Most of the residents speak Kukatja, and Walmajarri, Jaru, Pintupi, Warlpiri and Kriol are also spoken. Most of the adults who live in the village speak three languages.
Artist
Up to 500 people live in Balgo, including a large number of artists such as Eubena (Yupinya) Nampitjin , Elizabeth Nyumi, Brandy Tjungurrayi , Boxer Milner, Sam Tjampitjin, Helicopter Tjungurrayi , Tjumpo Tjapanangka and Pauline Sunfly .
The artists come from different language groups such as Kukatja, Walmatjarri, Ngarti, Jaru, Wangkatjungka, Pintupi and Warlpiri. In 1987 the art cooperative Warlayirti Artists Aboriginal Corporation was founded and a building was built for exhibition purposes. The artists mainly work on colorful acrylic paintings and meanwhile also prints and glass art. Her themes are taken from the dream time and deal with the landscape with watercourses, coolamons and sand dunes.
Individual evidence
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Balgo (L) (Urban Center / Locality) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
- ↑ luurnpa.wa.edu.au : Luurnpa Catholic School , in English, accessed July 25, 2012.
- ^ A b Warlayirti Artists and Cultural Center balgoart.org.au : Balgo Hills Art and Community , in English, accessed July 25, 2012.
- ↑ balgoart.org.au ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Warlayirtij - Flull List of Artist , in English, accessed July 25, 2012.
- ↑ artkelch.de ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Balgo , accessed July 29, 2012.
