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BINKANY (SUGAR LEAF) – YVONNE MARTIN

This painting represents the sugar leaf dreaming that is based in the ngarankarni (dreaming) times. Along the Great Northern Highway, situated on the rugged ranges north of Doon Doon – The Sugar leaf dreaming can easily be seen. The large white circle within the painting represents the sugar of were it lays and was also turned into large white sand, Yvonne says that this special place cannot be accessed by road. The story about the sugar leaf is that the old people used it as a washing detergent to wash camp ovens. 

Categories: WARMUN ART

Name: YVONNE MARTIN

Language: English, Gija, Kimberley Kriol, Worla

Community: Warmun

Biography:

Yvonne Martin was born in Wyndham in 1961 and went to primary school there at St Joseph's school. Martin met her husband Max Thomas in the 1970s and moved to Warmun to live on his country with his family. Martin has four children with Max. Yvonne has been painting for nearly 10 years, since Warmun Art Centre was established. She paints country belonging to her father around Wyndham, called Speewah. This is in Woolah country which is her language group. Martin teaches other women in her community about painting. She currently lives at Doon Doon Community, 100kms north from Warmun.

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