*Artwork on circular stretched canvas.
Name: Treinaya Phillips
Language: Yindjibarndi
Biography:
Treinaya is granddaughter of recognised Yinjaa-Barni artists Allery & Aileen Sandy. She is the eldest child of Brian Phillips and artist Sheryl Hicks. Her mother is Ngarluma and her dad is Yindjibarndi. Treinaya has spent most of her life travelling and moving back and forth between Roebourne and Perth before settling in Newman. After five years when she was in Year 12 Treinaya and her family moved to Karratha to be closer to family and Country. She started painting in 2011 in her Year 9 art class. In 2014 she started painting with her family at Yinjaa-Barni Art Centre. Treinaya enjoys painting patterns, mixing colours and finds art relaxing. She has a skill for colour placement, and her paintings often create optical illusions as colours bounce off each other.
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…