Jartuti is a water source located close to Parnngurr Aboriginal Community (otherwise known as Cotton Creek). The site is near to the home of the jangara (cannibal devil), spiritual beings from the Jukurrpa (Dreaming) era.
Name: Sarafina Jarrabina Dickie
Biography:
I born in Perth, but I grew up most in Jigalong with my family, the Sailors. Three sisters, three golden girls- Brenda, Julie, and Elisabeth, with Chrissy, Alistair and Terry. They in Perth now, but Terry still there in Jigalong. I go back there sometimes, stay there, camp there, but I live in Newman now.
My grandmother, Lorna Mintern, learn me to do painting and to make a basket when I was young- me and Corban [Clause Williams]. We grew up with Lorna, she teach us how to make a basket together.
Long time [ago] I was working with the artists and Gabrielle [Martumili’s first manager], with the old people, doing the baskets and painting before we moved into the new gallery [in 2016]. I’d ride around with her to the different communities, we’d go to the bush to get grass for the baskets. That was a long time ago, I was maybe eighteen.
I come here every day now. I like to do painting about my countryside- next to Parnngurr, other side. That’s my countryside through my pop’s side.
Untitled Martumili Artists work with over three hundred artists from remote Martu Aboriginal communities, including Punmu, Parnngurr, Kunawarritji, Jigalong, Irrungadji (Nullagine), and Warralong, as well as from the Parnpajinya (Newman) gallery and studio spaces. Known Read more…
Mungili “No one goes there and sees that landscape. Only two, Mr and Mrs [refers to footsteps in painting]. They was walking to see if the water was in there. Walking on the creek sand, Read more…
Rollah Block “This one’s a little block where I grew up, near Bidyadanga. It reminds me of when I was little, we used to play in the old chicken house. Reminds me of home. That Read more…