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I was born at Karnanganyjawurtu in the desert. W e walked to Puluwala.
I stayed there with my mother and father. We moved to another
living water, Purrpuny. After that we moved to Lumpu Lumpu
At law time some people went to Christmas Creek to bring back
people for ceremony. When the ceremony was finished we were
moving to Cherrabun Station.
The workers from Cherrabun saw a bushfire at Yapulu so they thought
that there must be bushmen there. The police tracked them there
to Yapulu and they chained them up and took them into Cherrabun
Station. They were frightened of the police.
We camped one night at Cherrabun and then went into town to the
police station. We went back top Cherrabun to work. My father passed
away there and then my mother and I went on to Jubilee Station,
across the Fitzroy River. From there I went to the Mission School
in Fitzroy Crossing.
I stayed there until one Christmas I didn't want to go back there.
I went to Jubilee Station instead and I learnt to work cleaning
the manager's house. We had Saturday and Sunday off. One Monday
my promised husband came from GoGo Station to pick me up. We went
to live at GoGo and then on to Bayulu Community.
Exhibition History
Group Exhibitions
1994 Ngajakurra
Ngurrara Minyarti, this is my country, Festival Of Perth Exhibition, Artplace,
WA
1995 Kimberley Art, Melbourne
Group Show, Australian Perspectives Gallery, Brisbane
1996 Minyarti Wangki Ngajukura Ngurrarajangka
This is the word from my Country, Indigenart Gallery, Perth
Group Show, Fremantle Art Centre
Group Show, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1998 Group Show, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1999 Ngurrara, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2000 National Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Art Award , Selected to hang
2001 Ngurrara Canvas, National Gallery of Australia
Group Show, Mangkaja Arts Ten Year Anniversary, Tandanya,
Adelaide
2003 Jila, Jumu, Jiwari & Wirrkuja, University of Western
Australia
2004 This is Still My Country...10 years
on... Perth International
Arts Festival, Artplace, Perth
Publications
1994 Ngajakurra
Ngurrara Minyarti, This Is My Country , Exhibition
catalogue
1996 Minyarti Wangki Ngajukura Ngurrarajangka,
This Is The Word From My Country, Exhibition catalogue
2000 Karrayili The
history of Karrayili Adult Education Centre,
IATSIS Canberra
2001 Painting Up Big, The Ngurrara Canvas,
Kaltja Now National Aboriginal Cultural Institute - Tandanya
2003 Martuwarra and Jila, Jumu, Jiwari
and Wirrkuja, Exhibition
Catalogue Cullity Gallery UWA Perth / Mangkaja Arts Resource
Agency
The Painted Desert The Fate of an Aboriginal
Masterpiece , New Yorker Magazine July 28
Collections
Holmes à Court
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