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“This is a mystery healing man, walk around healing people, looking after the sick (nyanta) people. [He] comes once a full moon then disappears.”
– Richard Mandijalu
Name: Richard Mandijalu
Community: Bidyadanga
Biography:
Richard was born in Derby and grew up in Bidyadanga. He then moved to Perth where he stayed with Colleen and Desmond Taylor his aunt and uncle. he went to school at Christ church grammar school and enjoyed playing footy, basketball and making new friends. He has recently moved to Newman to be with some of his family and is enjoying it here.
He loves footy, his favorite team is West Coast Eagles.
He started working with Martumili in 2018 where he was part of the exposure photography workshop, he liked playing around with the settings on the camera and learning new skills. He likes working with his cousin Ignatious at Martumili, (another arts worker) "he makes me feel comfortable and helps me with a lot of things'.
Untitled This painting portrays part of the artist’s country where their family lived traditionally during the pujiman (bush) days. The Martu lived very nomadically moving from water source to water source hunting and gathering bush Read more…
Parnngurr School “In 1984 my nyupa (partner) Mr Williams and I moved our family from Jigalong to Parnngurr community. Our five children were all young back then. People wanted to mine at Parnngurr. There was Read more…
Mulyamiji “Mangkarr (greater bilby), nurta (desert bandicoot), winyminji (quoll): those three animals, we protect them now. The old people use to eat the animals and we’re working with the KJ [Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa] ranger mob to Read more…