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Nawarlah – Brown River Stingray

We hunt the Nawarlah (Brown River Stingray) during the wet season.  There is a plant with a yellow flower that tells us that it is the right time.  We know it will be fat. 

It is well known that Aboriginal art often depicts images of sacred totems or dreamings of Aboriginal culture. However, the world of the non-sacred also provides a rich source of subject matter for Aboriginal art. Much of the rock art of western Arnhem Land for example features secular topics such as common food animals and plants, depicted because of their economic importance but also merely because of their existence in the environment.

Name: Jennifer Prudence


Language: Burarra (Martay)



Biography:

Jennifer Prudence is a Burarra fibre artist living in Maningrida. Jennifer works predominantly with locally harvested pandanus (pandanus spiralis) that she dyes with natural colours derived from the roots, leaves or flowers of plants found in the surrounding country. She was taught to weave by her sister, master weaver Lorna Jin-gubarrangunyja, and is now herself an accomplished maker of An-gujechiya (Fish Trap), Burlupurr (Dilly bags), circular woven mats and earrings. Jennifer was one of 13 artists who produced "Mun-Dirra" for the 2023 NGV Triennial Exhibition, a monumental installation of ten 10m long woven pandanus fish net fences; taking close to 2 years to complete, it is the largest commissioned fibre work in Australia.  

 

 

 


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