Jartuti is a water source located close to Parnngurr Aboriginal Community (otherwise known as Cotton Creek). The site is near to the home of the jangara (cannibal devil), spiritual beings from the Jukurrpa (Dreaming) era.
Name: Sarafina Jarrabina Dickie
Biography:
I born in Perth, but I grew up most in Jigalong with my family, the Sailors. Three sisters, three golden girls- Brenda, Julie, and Elisabeth, with Chrissy, Alistair and Terry. They in Perth now, but Terry still there in Jigalong. I go back there sometimes, stay there, camp there, but I live in Newman now.
My grandmother, Lorna Mintern, learn me to do painting and to make a basket when I was young- me and Corban [Clause Williams]. We grew up with Lorna, she teach us how to make a basket together.
Long time [ago] I was working with the artists and Gabrielle [Martumili’s first manager], with the old people, doing the baskets and painting before we moved into the new gallery [in 2016]. I’d ride around with her to the different communities, we’d go to the bush to get grass for the baskets. That was a long time ago, I was maybe eighteen.
I come here every day now. I like to do painting about my countryside- next to Parnngurr, other side. That’s my countryside through my pop’s side.
Punmu “This area here is our Country. It’s our Country right here. We returned to our Country with a Toyota and a grader that made the road. A grader right up to here. Punmu is Read more…
Punmu “This area here is our Country. It’s our Country right here. We returned to our Country with a Toyota and a grader that made the road. A grader right up to here. Punmu is Read more…
Yalta Yalta is a waterhole located between the Great Sandy Desert’s Percival Lakes region and Kunawarritji Aboriginal community. This site was visited by the Ngayurnangalku (cannibals) during the Jukurrpa (Dreaming). These fearsome ancestral cannibal beings Read more…