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Gertie Huddlestone |
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Guyal |
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Roper River |
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Mara
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Gertie was born in the 1930`s at Roper River Mission and speaks Mara language as well as English. Her people are called Ngameratiara, fresh water people and her clan/skin group is Guyal.
Gertie`s mother worked at the Roper River mission sewing clothes for the children, including her own five daughters, the five Joshua sisters (all since married), Dinah Garadji, Betty Roberts, Eva Rogers, Angelina George and Gertie herself. Gertie and her sisters attended school at the mission where they worked during the day, gardening and looking after mission grounds and animals. After working all day with the children would attend classes at night. Gertie`s father was in the Army during the second world war when many young men from Roper River mission camped with the Army just outside Darwin. Gertie lived in Darwin for sometime but move back to Ngukurr where she now lives in the late 80`s.
Gertie and her sisters began to paint on canvas in 1992. She has exhibited widely in Australia and overseas, with solo exhibitions in Darwin, Canberra, Melbourne and in 1995 at Rebecca Hossak Gallery in London.
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