Name: Janet Marawarr
Language: Kuninjku
Community: Maningrida
Biography:
Janet Marawarr is one of the most well travelled artists in Maningrida, her work with the Bàbbarra Women's Centre has taken her across the world to France, US and India. She has also travelled to New Zealand with Winston Churchill Fellowship recipient Ingrid Johanson as she researched 'Effective Models Connecting Remote Community Led Initiatives to Philanthropic Networks.
At the Bàbbarra Women's Centre Marawarr is a talented linocut and screenprint designer. She regards textile design as an opportunity to work with colour and and new methods to express her djang (ancestral creator stories).
As well as her artistic work with Bábbarra Women’s Centre, Marawarr is an established bark painter with Maningrida Arts Centre. She was taught by her late husband, John Dalngadalnga, brother of esteemed artists Ivan Namirrkki and Kay Lindjuwanga.
Recently Marawarr has been moving to works of paper, debuting at Laundry Gallery, Parap in August 2022. These paintings depict scared sites and stories in Kuninkju cosmoslogy using the textured Werrkno (skin) of the Namorrorddo (shooting star spirit) who transformed into a tree at Mankorlod Outstation retaining the rough skin of the malevolent spirit..
Warraburnburn In Burarra and Gun-nartpa languages the figure represented in this artwork is generally known as a wangarra ‘ghost spirit’. For the Warrawarra clan ghost spirits have their own particular characteristics and their own name – Warraburnburn. The Warraburnburn Read more…
Bush Jewellery – Earrings The women of Maningrida and surrounding homelands use a combination of locally found seeds, bone and shells to make a variety of jewellery including necklaces. earrings and bracelets. Many of the artists Read more…
Bush Jewellery – Earrings The women of Maningrida and surrounding homelands use a combination of locally found seeds, bone and shells to make a variety of jewellery including necklaces. earrings and bracelets. Many of the artists Read more…