Status: Stock
Name: May Burton
Biography:
May was born in Hedland and grew up Jigalong with her mother and father and sister Marrianne.
"My father (Pukina Burton) learned me for painting, me and my big sister, we learned from our father to do painting"
"I lost my mother In Jigalong and me and my father and Marianne went to Punmu where we start to do painting with Martumili before my father died he tell us to do painting."
Jila (snake, living water) “Four jila, waterhole in the middle there. One goes North, another one South way. Another one this way West, this one East. They went seperate. From the desert to the sea.” Read more…
Pipijarli (Calandrinia sp.) “That’s a [painting of a] flower, a purple one like that. It grows everywhere on the plain, it’s a wild yam, like a mata (bush potato).” Lynne Charles Pipijarli is a species Read more…
Spinifex country & Quoll Tracks Martu Country is dominated by striking permanent tali (sandhills) covered with spinifex, gums, and other trees and shrubs. Spinifex is a pale green, spiky grass that grows in clumps throughout the Central Read more…