Marlene GILSON
"Gilson’s work will stand up against the colonial works forever"
or Gilson, the catalyst to her picking up a brush came when she was diagnosed with cancer. Her husband cut out wooden houses for her to paint on as a distraction. “My daughter then bought me a canvas and I painted Bundjil, the eagle – that’s our creator spirit along with Waa the crow. All the paintings contain our totems. That’s where it started. I would have loved to have gone to art school but I had to go out and work. I made raincoats at Bramac, a
