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I was born near marsh country along the Canning Stock Route. While
I was still young I moved to Cherrabun station. I was already
a widow when I first came from the desert. I was married very
young and my first husband died in the desert. Jimmy Pike was
my nephew. He had been to see the station and he came to take
us back there. We were frightened of the kartiya (whitemen)
so we camped away from the station for while. I worked on the
station washing clothes, cooking at the stock camp.
Jupurr
is the name of the waterhole in my mother's, father's and grandfather's
country.
Exhibition History
Group Exhibitions
1991 Karrayili, Tandanya, Adelaide
1992 Group Show, Hogarth Gallery,
Sydney
1993 Mangkaja Women, Fremantle Art Centre
Images of
Power: Aboriginal Art from the Kimberley, National Gallery
Victoria
1994 Bush Women, Fremantle Art Centre
Ngajakurra
Ngurrara Minyarti, this is my country, Festival Of Perth
Exhibition / Artplace Gallery, Perth
1995 Kimberley Art,
Melbourne
Group Show, Australian Perspectives Gallery, Brisbane
Paji Honeychild and Nyuju Stumpy Brown, Fremantle Art Centre
1996 Heritage Commission Art Award, Old Parliament House,
Canberra
Group Show, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1997 Group Show,
Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1998 Group Show, Rebecca Hossack
Gallery, London
1999 Ngurrara, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
Story Boards Ceramic tiles from the Kimberley, Fremantle
Art Centre
2000 Women' s Work, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
2001 Ngurrara Canvas, National Gallery of Australia
Mangkaja Arts
Ten Years On Mangkaja’s 10 year Anniversary Show, Tandanya,
Adelaide
2002 Group Show, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Strength of Line Drypoints and Etchings from the NYU Collection,
NTU Darwin
2003 Waterhole, Presented by Raft Artspace Darwin,
Hosted by Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney
Mangkaja Marninwarnti,
Raft Artspace, Darwin
Jila Jumu Jiwari & Wirrkuja, Cullity
Gallery UWA , Perth
Jaja & Jaja Honeychild and Mona Chuguna,
Short Street Gallery, Broome
National Aboriginal Torres Strait
Islander Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the NT Darwin
Jila, Jumu, Jiwari & Wirrkuja, University of Western
Australia
2004 “This is still my country... 10 years
on...” Perth International Arts Festival- Artplace,
Perth
Publications
1991 Karrayili;
Ten years on , Exhibition Catalogue
1993 Mangkaja
Women's Exhibition catalogue, Fremantle Art Centre
Images
of Power: Aboriginal Art from the Kimberley, Exhibition Catalogue
1994 Bush Women, Exhibition Catalogue
Ngajakurra Ngurrara
Minyarti, This Is My Country, Exhibition catalogue
1998 Jila Painted
Waters of the Great Sandy Desert, Video Documentary
/ SBS Television
2000 Oxford Companion to Aboriginal
Art, Oxford University
Press and Australian National University
Kaltja Now, Indigenous
Arts Australia, Wakefield Press and Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural
Institute
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
National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria,
Berndt Museum- University of Western Australia, Museum and Art
Gallery of the Northern Territory, Northern Territory University,
Holmes 'a Court Collection- Perth, Edith Cowan University- Perth
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