“In the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling)) days, people were walking Country, over sand dunes, going up and down a long way. The country has a lot of different foods, people collected them along the way. People came together, they met at a big waterhole. Palya! (Good!)”
– Petrina Jackman
Name: Petrina Jackman
Language: Kartujarra
Biography:
Petrina was born in Perth and then lived in Jigalong with her Aunty Miriam, until she was 19. She grew up watching the artists painting in the community. She now lives in Newman with her husband and two children, and paints at the Martumili Artists art centre.
Punmu waterholes “Punmu, I went there when I was a young girl, a teenager with my mother and father before my mother passed. Big mob of people was there. No building, just little cubby houses Read more…
Linyji (claypan) This work depicts a linyji (claypan) within the artists’ ngurra (home Country, camp), typically represented with circular forms. Claypans were visited more often during the wet seasons as they filled with water. During Read more…
Kunawarritji (Canning Stock Route Well 33) “We went to Kunawarritji. We went out to see the waterholes with Kumpaya [Girgirba], my aunty – my dad’s sister. It’s the first time I went in a chopper Read more…