in Ngurra nyujungammu, the time when the world was soft, Mingkala created all the ngurra, the plants and the animals. This painting is from the creation of time – Ngurra surrounded by the mirra mirra, milky way
Name: Judith Coppin
Language: Yindjibarndi
Biography:
Judith is an Yindjibarndi Elder and Cultural Custodian, highly respected artist and community worker. Since 2010, Judith has been creating beautiful acrylic paintings on canvas. In the past three years she has extended her art practices to her very beautiful yarranga marni (carved boards), her artworks are highly valued and selected for major Perth-based exhibitions. Judith’s artworks are intricately constructed, bold, deeply cultural, evolving from her passionate love of her Ngurra (country) and creation stories from Ngurra Nyujunggamu (when the world was soft). Yarranga Marni artworks by Judith have sold to the WA Department of Arts and Culture Collection, and her work featured on the cover of the 2019 Rio Tinto Colours of our Country Catalogue more recently they were exhibited in The Track We Share Exhibition at The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Thalu Site The second thalu connected to Jirrda
Juju Phil’s Truck Juju Phil takes white fellas out to country to teach them about Yindjibarnid Culture and how to care for Ngurra
