”My painting is about Well 32”
This canvas was painted as part of the Martumili Kuulkaja (Martu Schools) exhibition, a project designed to engage and celebrate the schools of the remote Martu communities.
Name: Jason Jones
Language: Manjilyjarra
Community: Kunawarritji
Biography:
I like playing football and I like riding our four wheeler. I have a dog and his name is Diesel. I have two little sisters. I like listening to my Grandfather, Maurice, telling stories about when he was a young man. He was a stock man.
Dry Season Martumili Artists work with over three hundred artists from remote Martu Aboriginal communities, including Punmu, Parnngurr, Kunawarritji, Jigalong, Irrungadji (Nullagine), and Warralong, as well as from the Parnpajinya (Newman) gallery and studio spaces. Read more…
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Wanti Yuu (Women, Yeah!) “Wanti Yuu (Woman Yeah!) is a story of resilience and of women coming together. It is about the strength of the women in our community who put themselves last and take Read more…