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Nalanji is an Australian aboriginal word for place (Place).
When working with Internationally renowned Australian Design studio. Balarinji, Susan created the 'Nalanji Dreaming'
design for Qantas to celebrate the balance and harmony of nature in 'our place', Australia.
In late 1995, this aircraft became the second designed and painted in an Aboriginal-inspired contemporary style for Qantas.
As with all of Susan’s paintings, her design of “Nalanji Dreaming” expresses our uniquely Australian cultural themes in a
lush, tropical colour palette. Yellow sun rays dot intense blue sky. Flowers and vines express the rain forest and symbolise,
too, tracks between ceremonial places of spirit ancestors when they created the Australian landscape in
the Dreamtime. Emerald greens are the colours of the forest.
Vivid blues are the tropical reef waters that lap our golden shores along the entire circumference of the Australian continent.
A flash of watermelon catches the eye like a native parrot flying through it’s canopy or a flower in it’s natural process
that to us is sudden bloom.
As with the Wunula Dreaming aircraft, Susan’s original design for Nalanji was first digitalised on computer and magnified 100 times to generate 2 kilometers of blotting paper, which allowed each pattern to be traced onto the Boeing 747-300 aircraft.
Original article from the Adelaide Advertiser, rewritten by Rowena Brown
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