Yinjaa-Barni Art

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Letting Go

This painting represents the warmth and love I have for a lady I was proud to call my mother. After losing her, I as an artist felt myself being motivated to do a series of paintings to deal with my grief and the void she has left in my heart and life itself. The earlier pieces in the series used dark colours to represent the devastation and overwhelming grief of losing my mum (Aunty). I realised this painting is me slowly moving through the grief and beginning to find light again. This is my journey as an artist, using my painting to navigate the process that we all go through in life called grief. After working on this piece I realised that the colours I have used in the background represent the warmth and love my mum had for her family and those around her. The copper represents my Mum’s love and respect for her Country and many trips she enjoyed travelling with loved ones out bush.

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Sea Turtle

We like to watch the turtles come up to the sore and lay their eggs. Sometimes we see the little baby turtles hatch and run down the beach to the ocean.

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After the Bushfire

After the bushfire when you look at the Country it looks bare, there’s no vegetation, just a small amount of growth within the area. The moist at night, I call it the bunyjad (heavy dew) when it falls at night and it brings a little bit of life to the earth . In the early days when we were growing up in the station they used to go out mustering, but always aware of how much spinifex they could burn bringing the cattle and the sheep back into the station for shearing, they were mustering days. Our Elders knew how to look after the Country and look after the land and knew when the time and the season came for rain. Today we see so many bush fires around and it just burns the whole Country. We just wait for rain to come, or nice bunyjad to fall at night to water the mother earth and bring life back.

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Millstream

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Boominjie Camp

First Pilbara police station

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Pilbara Hills Country

This painting represents many Pilbara hills we have in our country and the dry spinifex everywhere with the green trees. This is my grandmothers hill at three different times of the day.

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Turtle Dreaming

When we see sea turtles it can mean that they can be mating and that makes us aware that they will soon be going to lay eggs. Some of our people eat the eggs and turtles. Back long ago, my people used to dive for turtles for Mr Withnell at Cossack.