Yinjaa-Barni Art

Ngurra This is our country. Our place of belonging. This work was a collaborative work between Marlene Harold, Melissa Sandy, Justina Willis, Allery Sandy and Jenna Munda.

Pilbara Wildflowers These are the Pilbara wildflower’s that grow on the ground they have a beautiful orange colour blending in the country during flower season.

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…

Pilbara Wildflowers These are the Pilbara wildflower’s that grow on the ground they have a beautiful orange colour blending in the country during flower season.

Pilbara Country The colours in the background represent the Pilbara landscape with a hint of colour piercing through representing the scattered wildflowers found all across the countryside. You can see the Mulla Mulla, Blue Bells and Spinifex..

Marni/Pilbara Creeks The Pilbara is a land of many beautiful colours. Its beauty blends into the mother earth and against the red, purple hills in the distance. In time and season, the yellow Wattles, Mulla and Sturt Pea bloom and the country comes alive with the wildflowers, watered by the Read more…

Pilbara Hills In our country we have many hills of all different shapes and sizes. When driving through country at different times the colours change and some of the hills look like velvet in the evening and morning light .

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…

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 all Read more…

Blue Bells Blue bells are common in the Pilbara. They grow quite tall amongst the other flowers such as sturt pea and mulla mulla flowers. This flower has a prickly stem and every year grows wild in our country.