“I’m a new mumma and those are my two feet walking, protecting baby from the snakes. We walk to Wantili my nanna’s Country, Ngamaru Bidu. Wantili, Pitu… she was there with her sisters” – Shydel Robinson
Name: Shydel Robinson
Language: Warnman
Community: Parnngurr
Biography:
My Nana teach me how to paint. I came looking at Martumili and art and start looking at painting and make me want to paint and got over excited. Ngamaru's my grandmother and I want to paint my Country Wantili and right up to Bidu.
Untitled “When Martu paint, it’s like a map. Martu draw story on the ground and on the canvas, and all the circle and line there are the hunting areas and different waters and tracks where Read more…
Bushfire in my Mother’s Country This work depicts the practice of fire burning as it continues to be used today through the Martu homelands. Over thousands of years, as Martu travelled and hunted on foot Read more…
Tuwa (Sandhills) ‘’Went with Martumili. Old Jigalong. Judith’s nanna Country, where Judith nanna was born. Went from old Jigalong to Jigalong to right through Parnngurr, Camped the night and then Judith’s pop went to pick Read more…