Description
The artist is a Wiradjuri man who was born in Griffith NSW. The privations of the depression were the background to Roy’s childhood near the Murrumbidgee River, close to the site of the Warangesda Aboriginal Mission at Darlington Point. Here Roy, his mother and stepfather, lived first in a mud hut by Waddi Creek and then behind the police station, on the Darlington Point police paddock.
‘This is about the steamers carrying cargo up and down the Murrumbidgee river in the old days of river transport.’
