These are the waterholes left after mining. As the years go on the country fights back and new life springs up.
Name: Joanne Willis
Language: Yindjibarndi
Biography:
Joanne Willis is the daughter of well-known Yinjaa-Barni artist, Allery Sandy. Joanne started painting in early 2008 by watching her family painting and sketching designs on paper. She decided to have a go at putting one of her sketches onto canvas and this painting won her a prize at the Cossack Art Awards. She has gone on to develop her own unique style and successful arts practice.
Country Bluebells The Country Bluebell is one of the common flowers growing on the edges of the river bank and around the edge of hillsides. It also grows in open plains country.
Springflowers This artwork shows the flowers blooming in the Spring, showing it’s beauty. There are sturt peas, mulla mulla and bluebells.
Millstream Emily is one of Yinjaa-Barni Art’s emerging artists. Emily painted this artwork after returning to Country on an art centre camp to Millstream. She collected natural pigments from Millstream crossing and ground the rock Read more…