Yinjaa-Barni Art

Rugged Country of the Pilbara During dry summer months our country looks so dry, but the beauty of the red earth, the spinifex and dry grass make it beautiful.

Mulla Mulla Wildflowers This is the Fortescue Mulla Mulla or ‘Gumbarli’ in Yindjibarndi language. The flower is a purplish colour. It’s not a bush medicine, just a flower that grows in the country, in lines along the roads and everywhere. In this painting, the seeds of the Mulla Mulla are Read more…

Colours Through The Rocks In Yindjibarndi country there are many different shaped rock formations. It looks like a truck has tipped a huge pile of rocks. At different times of the day, especially in the evening sunset, you will see the beautiful colours changing across the face of the rocks Read more…

Waterholes This painting shows the many waterholes you find in the Pilbara region. Some are well known, others are hidden amongst the hills.

Walking the Land These are the tracks of my ancestors who walked the land long before us. We now walk where they walked.

Emu Seeds In this painting I have depicted the pods of a shrub which is common in the Pilbara area. It is a smallish bush which comes into seed in September, when the Emu is visible in the Milky Way. This is the time the emu chicks hatch and it Read more…

Wildflowers Mulla Mulla This is the Fortescue Mulla Mulla or ‘Gumbarli’ in Yindjibarndi language. The flower is a purplish colour. It’s not a bush medicine, just a flower that grows in the country, in lines along the roads and everywhere. In this painting, the seeds of the Mulla Mulla are Read more…

Rugged Country of the Pilbara During dry summer months our country looks so dry, but the beauty of the red earth, the spinifex and dry grass make it beautiful.

Early Morning Mist The early morning mist over the water is the smoke from the breakfast fires of the Marrga, the creation spirits. According to Yindjibarndi law, in the beginning the sky was very low. When the creation spirits, Marrga, arose from the ground they raised the sky and the Read more…

Turtle Dreaming Kenny likes to depict the sea turtles that inhabit the waters of his country. His style is impeccably neat and precise.