Warakurna is a large Aboriginal community, located in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku it lies near the foot of the spectacular Rawlinson Range, 300 kilometers west of Uluru (Ayers Rock) near the meeting of the borders of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory. Ngaanyatjarra people have strong ties with neighboring Western Desert groups, including Martu.
Name: Roxanne Newberry
Community: Punmu
Biography:
My name is Roaxanne Newberry I'm from Warakurna. I've been painting for a few years now. I was watching my sister Cynthia Burke and my mother Jorna Newberry paint I'd sometimes help them with their painting. It gave me some ideas for my painting. I love doing aerial landscapes of my fathers Country. I was watching Cynthia weave at Tjanpi Desert Weavers then I decided to do my own. When I'm painting or weaving I forget about everything and everyone forget about my worries, it makes me feel like me.
Two Countries: Kun Kun (Kuny-Kuny) and Nganjirr “Grandfather’s Country, not far from Well 33, called Nganjirr. Not far, [you] can go up by car. Go camping there. When it rains, fills up, then is dry. Read more…
Wantili (Warntili, Canning Stock Route Well 25) “Wantili is my place, where I was born. It’s a place where everyone was living- it’s all of their ngurra (home Country, camp). It’s the Jukurrpa (Dreaming) of that place. All 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…