Yinjaa-Barni Art

Rain Over the Spinifex Country This is the rain falling over my country. In the summer time we get most of our rain and it refreshes the landscape.

Spinifex Country In September, when we are looking for gum from the Blue Gum Tree, we walk through the spinifex country. We pick the gum when it is crystal colour, and we eat it, or put it into hot water to make it like a toffee. We call it sugar Read more…

Spinifex Country In September, when we are looking for gum from the Blue Gum Tree, we walk through the spinifex country. We pick the gum when it is crystal colour, and we eat it, or put it into hot water to make it like a toffee. We call it sugar 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…

Thunderstorm Over the Pilbara The Pilbara receives most of its rain in the summer. There are some amazing thunderstorms that roll in over the country and shower the land with much needed rain. It’s a joy to see the landscape revived after heavy rains.

Burrup The Burrup in the Pilbara has a diverse range of wildlife, wildflowers and the highest concentration of rock engravings of any known site in the world.

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…

Coloured Buttons A Yindjibarndi elder and founding member of one of the region’s first art groups, Bujinhurrba, Maudie Jerrold is part of the backbone of Pilbara Aboriginal art. Maudie has a unique style and colour palette and likes to experiment with them.

Marni The Pilbara is the country where we the Yindjibarndi people live and share many of our Cultural stories and history that have been passed onto us by our ancestors, of how they used to walk through the flat country we call the (Table Lands) visiting family members at nearby Read more…

Rainbow Colours The colours of the rainbow after a big rain has come and refreshed the country.