Lolly Tree
Laurel Nannup
2001 | woodcut with collage| accession number 731
purchased by the Art Board 2006 – Murdoch University Art Collection
© the artist

Laurel NANNUP

born 1943, Carrolup, Western Australia
lives and works in Perth, Western Australia
Nyoongar language group

Laurel Nannup’s etchings and wood cut prints bring to life a childhood in a large Aboriginal family. While her stories including time spent at the Wandering Mission, the artist’s main focus is on memories of family life: picnics, roaming through the bush, and sharing campfire tales.

The Lolly Tree is a story from the artist and her cousins’ childhood. The following is the artist’s recollections of this story:

Our Uncle, Lionel Hart, one day took is nieces and nephews out bush, for a ride in the cart. When they got to a certain tree, it was loaded with all these lollies with pretty wrappings on them. They thought it was just wonderful that their Uncle should find this lolly tree, and they did not know that he had gone out to the bush earlier to tie the lollies on the tree.

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