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White Gums

This artwork was created during the bush food and medicine Wanti’s (women’s) camp of 2024, held collaboratively by Martumili Artists and Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa. Focused around a bush camp at White Gums held in 2024, Martumili Artists and KJ rangers have collaborated on a body of creative and cultural works that explore and demonstrate the importance of traditional bush food and medicine for Martu. Camps and the working exhibits foster opportunities for Martu led intergenerational learning, and showcase the ways in which both ranger and artistic work is embedded in maintaining Warrarnku Ninti (knowledge of Country). During the camp Martu knowledge and narratives of linyji (termite pavement nests) were explored and how they have been ingeniously utilized for generations for food processing, healing and ceremony.

Name: Donna Loxton


Language: Manyjilyjarra


Community: Punmu


Biography:

Donna was born in Port Hedland. From there she went to Strelly, stayed there for a couple of years, then went to Jigalong. She went to school at Jigalong and Nullagine. She has lived in Punmu since 1983. She has two kids and works in the clinic full time. Donna has been painting with Martumili Artists since 2007, and has focussed on painting country around her home in Punmu community and also paints her grandmother's country where she walked in Pugiman days. She enjoys learning the stories and painting that country. In March 2009 she and the other women of Punmu decided to do a collaborative artwork to help raise funds for their community.


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