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La Rook Station

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 for their diverse, energetic, and unmediated painting styles, their works reflect the dramatic geography and scale of their homelands. Each artist, however, brings a unique approach to their craft.

Younger Martu artists often start painting alongside their parents, grandparents, and extended family, which fosters an organic learning process. This not only involves mastering painting techniques but also understanding specific locations, family histories, traditional ways of life, bush tucker, and Jukurrpa (Dreaming). Over time, with encouragement from their peers, they develop their own distinct styles and explore unique painting techniques and subject matter. In this work the artist brings a contemporary, evolving perspective to their work.

Name: Selena Brown


Language: Nyangumarta, Warnman


Community: Warralong


Biography:

“We was working out at Lalla Rookh [Station], keep all the kids in in school. We was cooking dinner for them and my old people. Cook them meat. My sister feed them. Put it on the plate and eat at the table. And I was cooking them damper, They was schooling out in Lalla Rookh Station for a while and then go back to Warralong.

I was doing my painting at La Rook and my mum been learn me to do the painting. I love paint as long as I making my money. I get the board and do my painting in Lalla Rookh, in Warralong, in Hedland and in Marble Bar. I’m still doing it. I like doing it long time. I can’t leave them.”

- Selena Brown


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