This episode best friends Megan and Milena GTFO of the dumpster fire that is America and go international with Aboriginal Australian abstract painter Emily Kame Kngwarreye & beloved English primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall

Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Emily Kame Kngwarreye is one of the most prominent contemporary Australian painters – and one of the most prolific. Born in roughly 1910 in the central desert region of the Northern Territory, Emily came to international fame 70 years later. In her short public career as a painter Emily averaged a painting a day. This episode we cover what life was like in her remote and rural community, how Emily’s paintings made it into the art market and the spiritual connections ingrained within the paintings.

Selected Work

Acrylic on canvas, Big Yam Dreaming – one of Emily’s motifs were the root structures of yam plants

Acrylic on canvas, another example of the use of root structures for Emily’s art

Acrylic on canvas, 1996 – Part of the My Country series

Acrylic on canvas, Untitled, part of a series based off of body art painting that was done for spiritual ceremonial performances within Emily’s community

Emily working on one of her paintings. She worked large scale, typically finishing a painting in a day

Dr. Jane Goodall

Dr. Jane Goodall in the 1960s, having Mother Nature essentially bless her as One of the Good Ones

Lately everything feels like it’s going to hell and you just need a little bit of feel-good something. For one of the co-host that’s stuffing her face with chocolate and more chocolate. For the other co-host that’s bringing us this segment on the amazing Dr. Jane Goodall. Today Milena brings us the feel-good vibes of this English primatologist – who went from working as a waitress after high school to immersing herself for decades within Tanzania’s Gombe National park chimpanzee communities.

As always, music by EeL