Daniel Manby
Darrikardu Art Collective‘I am from Darwin, I live in Wadeye, my mother’s country is here, I speak Murrinhpatha.
I dream about all my stories (paintings), about family carrying all their spears, family at the beach, fishing. They come back to camp, they make fire, they make two fires, cook fish, mud crab, everything, not hungry anymore. Makes you big and strong, helps you to keep going.
When I dream, I think ‘I’ll do this tomorrow’, it comes from my mind. I was wobbly at first because I’m not used to it. I was thinking to myself ‘keep trying, keep trying’, then I got use to all this. I got smooth and slow. I paint old people fishing, hunting for goose. I don’t give up I keep going til I finish’.
