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Cyclone Tracy – Jane Tinmarie-Yalunga

This is my old man’s [Rover Thomas] story about Cyclone Tracy in Darwin in 1974, two years after I was born.

Rover got his joonba, Goorirr Goorirr , from this Cyclone. Out near that store [Warmun’s Wungkul store] a woman had a crash and she went and visited my old man in a dream.

When I was first learning how to paint I was following my father and looking at him. I was looking after him and painting when he was at the old people home and I used to paint.

The Goorirr Goorirr was found by Rover in 1975, not long after the disastrous Cyclone Tracy had all but destroyed Darwin, the nearest large population centre to Turkey Creek. It came to him in his Dreams over period of time. As he shared the knowledge he had gained in this way, its significance was recognised. Out of this emerged the community celebration of Goorirr Goorirr. In the next few years Goorirr Goorirr was regularly performed at Turkey Creek and taken to other communities as well.

Categories: WARMUN ART

Name: JANE TINMARIE-YALUNGA

Language: English, Gija, Kimberley Kriol

Community: Warmun

Biography:

Jane Yalunga Tinmarie was born in Wyndham, Western Australia. She went to school in Wyndham as a young girl, then moved to Warmun community, Westerm Australia, where she now lives. Yalunga worked as a teacher's aide at the Ngalangangpum Community School in Warmun for many years.

As the daughter of one of Australia's most famous artists - Rover Thomas, Jane grew up watching her father paint. She started painting herself in 2000 at Warmun Art Centre and her subjects include her family country on Texas Downs Station, local birds and animals and the country around Warmun in the East Kimberley area of Western Australia. She also paints the Dreamings from her father's country including images from the significant Gurirr Gurirr joonba (song cycle) that her father famously received in a dream and which is central to the emergence of the contemporary Warmun Art Movement. Jane lives in Warmun (Turkey Creek) with her five children, her partner and her extended family.

Jane Yalunga also works as studio assistant at Warmun Art Centre where she is responsible for assisting Warmun artists with their requirements including preparation of materials, senior and emerging artist support and packing and despatch of sales. 

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