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Artist
Statement:
I paint my mother’s country and father’s. This is the
country where I was living before. When I paint, it is this country
that I am thinking about. In the hot weather time we lived in one
place, near living water. We ate kangaroo and lots of different
bush foods.
My feeling for my country comes from the stories too. When I was
a young girl my mother and father and the old people taught me about
Ngarrangkarni (Dreamtime). When I go to my country I think about
my parents walking around the waterholes and the japi (features
around waterholes which indicate the presence of Kalpurtu (the water
snake).
I like to go back to my country to see the waterholes. It is sad
too because my father is buried there. I think about my country
all of the time. I like to paint the desert, it makes me think about
my parents. I paint my country, the waterholes and I give the name
for the water, in the places where we used to walk.
Exhibition History
Solo Shows
2003 ‘Jilji & Partiri (Sandhill and Flower)’ with
Peter Skipper, Artplace, Perth
2002 with Jinny Ngarta Bent, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2000 with Jinny Ngarta Bent, I’ Art sur la Place, Biennale
de Lyon, France
1998 ‘Wangarr and Mangki: shadow and spirit’ with Peter
Skipper, Artplace
Selected
Group Shows
2004 “This
is still my country... 10 years on...” Perth International
Arts Festival- Artplace, WA
"Ngurrara Canvas”, Perth
International Arts Festival, Perth Concert Hall
"Peter
Skipper & Mona Chuguna”, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2003 “Jila, Jumu, Jiwari & Wirrkuja”, Cullity
Gallery, University of WA & Mangkaja Arts
2002 “Wayampajarti”, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
Group Show, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2001 “Mangkaja Arts- 10 years on” Anniversary
Show, Tandanya, Adelaide
18th National Aboriginal & Torres
Strait Islander Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of NT
"Ngurrara
Canvas”, National Gallery of Australia
2000 Ngarta and Jukuna, I’ Art sur la Place, Biennale de Lyon,
France
1999 Ngurrara, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA
1998 Group Show, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
Wangarr and Mangki: shadow and spirit - with Peter Skipper, Artplace,
Perth, WA
1997 Group Show, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1996 Group Show, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Heritage Commission Art Award, Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
1995 Group Show, Australian Perspectives Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Kimberley Art, Melbourne, Vic.
1994 Ngajakurra Ngurrara Minyarti, this is my country, Festival
of Perth exhibition, Artplace, Perth, WA
National Aboriginal Art Award, selected to hang
1993 Images of Power: Aboriginal Art from the Kimberley, National
Gallery Victoria, Vic
Mangkaja Women, Fremantle Art centre, WA
1992 Group Show, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1991 Karrayili, Tandanya, Adelaide, SA
Publications and reviews
2003 Ron Banks, “Desert partners
in life & art”, Today section, The West Australian,
8. Sept.
Out of the Desert Stories from
the Walmajarri Exodus
ed. Eirlys Richards, Joyce Hudson, & Pat Lowe Magabala Books
The Painted Desert The Fate of an Aboriginal Masterpiece New Yorker Magazine
July 28, 2003
Martuwarra & Jila, Jumu, Jiwari & Wirrkuja Cullity Gallery, UWA & Mangkaja
Arts
2002 Philippa O’Brien, “Land, Poetry, Power” Artlink, Vol.
22 #3
2001 Painting Up Big, The Ngurrara Canvas Kaltja Now National Aboriginal Cultural
Institute - Tandanya
18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Museum and Art
Gallery of the Northern Territory (exhibition catalogue)
2000 Karrayili The history of Karrayili Adult Education Centre AIATSIS Canberra
Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art Oxford University Press & ANU
1998 Jila Painted Waters of the Great Sandy Desert, Video
Documentary / SBS Television
1994 Ngajukura Ngurrara Minyarti, This is My Country, Exhibition
catalogue
1993 Images of power: Aboriginal Art from the Kimberley: Exhibition
catalogue
Mangkaja Women’s Exhibition catalogue, Fremantle Art
Centre, WA
1991 Karrayili, Ten years on, Exhibition catalogue
Collections
National gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria,
Australian Print Workshop, Northern Territory University, Art Gallery
of Western Australia
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