Yinjaa-Barni Art

Sea Turtles Drifting Turtles roam the sea as family every year even when the times to find land to hatch their young on the beach!

Tide Going Out When the tide goes out it drags back the water and leaves behind patterns in the sand. This painting represents the water and the sand. I like to paint my country from a bird’s eye view, looking down. I love the different textures and shapes of the Read more…

Pilbara Country

Hill Plains in Bloom

Coral Reef When the tide goes out it leaves all the weeds among the rockholes mixed with all the colourful coral from the ocean.

Tide Going Out When the tide goes out it drags back the water and leaves behind patterns in the sand. This painting represents the water and the sand. I like to paint my country from a bird’s eye view, looking down. I love the different textures and shapes of the Read more…

Marni 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 rain Read more…

Skin Groups This painting is about our four skin groups Banaga, Balyirri, Burungu and Garimarra. Without understanding skin groups it would be hard for other groups in the Pilbara region to know who you are and where you are from so it is very important for us Yinjibarndi people to learn their own skin Read more…

Mulla Mulla and Blue Gum Patch 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 Read more…