Name: Jean Rangi
Language: Walmajarri, Nyigina
Community: Mindi Rardi
Biography:
Jeani Rangi was born at Old Cherrabun Station near the Fitzroy River. Her mother and father came out from the desert before she was born. Jeani grew up with one sister and two brothers though they have since passed away. She has two daughters and three sons who all live in Fitzroy Crossing. Her parents used to take her hunting when she was young and teach her how to live off the land.
Jeani is a Walmajarri woman who lives in Mindi Rardi Community and paints at Mangkaja Arts Resource Centre. She paints her country, which keeps her memories strong. While she paints she remembers how they lived, hunting for food and living off the land.
Jeani also paints her mother and fathers’ country from stories she was told about how they walked out from the desert and into the cattle country where they worked for Kartiya(White People)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2012 | Mangkaja Arts 21 Year Anniversary Wirrinyiya ngaragngarag birra ngamoo ngamoo | Tandanya, Adelaide, SA |
2012 | Jila Living Water | Gallery Tjukurrpa, Manly, NSW |
2011 | Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair | DAAF, Darwin |
AWARDS:
Tutujarti Trees (Desert Walnut) Tutujarti trees all around the two waterhole called Nyijil Nyijil, that way out in the desert; That’s my family country, my family comes from the desert. It has a nut called Read more…
Jurnta (Bush Onion) JURNTA that we digem up from the ground sometime we eat it raw or sometime we throw in the coals
Bush Onion (Jurnta) This country Booloowatu. My community grows bush onions. During the dry season jurnta goes black. This means they are ripe (cooked) and ready to dig up and cook on the coals. The Read more…