Lorna Linmurra, Waterholes, 76x46cm

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Aboriginal Artists - Lorna Linmurra
Community - Warralong
Aboriginal Art Centre - Martumili Artists
Catalogue number - 22-1684
Materials - Acrylic paint on canvas
Size(cm) - H76 W46 D2
Postage variants - Artwork posted un-stretched and rolled for safe shipping
Orientation - Painted from all sides and OK to hang as wished

Artwork

This is Lorna’s Country - her ‘ngurra’ (home Country, camp). People identify with their ngurra in terms of specific rights and responsibilities, and the possession of intimate knowledge of the physical and cultural properties of one’s Country. Painting ngurra, and in so doing sharing the Jukurrpa (Dreaming) stories and physical characteristics of that place, has today become an important means of cultural maintenance. Though Lorna was born in the Port Hedland hospital and she attended school from a young age, she still lived a somewhat traditional pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) lifestyle, travelling in the Country between Marble Bar and Roebourne with ‘nomad people’. Today Lorna lives in Warralong Aboriginal community, 50 km north of Marble Bar. Portrayed in this work are features of Lorna’s ngurra, such as the dominant permanent red tali (sandhills), warta (trees, vegetation), and the individually named water sources she and her family camped at.

Artist

“I was born in Hedland hospital. I grew up, Marble Bar area, we were staying there with nomad people, I was going to school. Nomad people would take us everywhere. We then went to Roebourne, everywhere we go. I started working making tins for lollies, for a few years I did. We didn’t know anything [then], we were young people.”
- Lorna Linmurra

Lorna was born in Port Hedland. In more recent years she moved to Warralong Community with her family, where she remains today. Warralong Community is located 120 kilometres south east of Port Hedland and 50 kilometres north of Marble Bar in the Pilbara. The community lies between the Shaw and De Grey Rivers.

Art Centre

Martumili Artists was established in late 2006 and supports Martu artists in Kunawarritji, Punmu, Parnngurr, Jigalong, Warralong, Irrungadji (Nullagine), and Parnpajinya (Newman). Many Martu artists have close relationships with established artists amongst Yulparija, Kukatja, and other Western Desert peoples and are now gaining recognition in their own right for their diverse, energetic, and unmediated painting styles. Their works reflect the dramatic geography and scale of their homelands in the Great Sandy Desert and Rudall River regions of Western Australia. Martumili Artists represents speakers of Manyjilyjarra, Warnman, Kartujarra, Putijarra, and Martu Wangka languages, many of whom experienced first contact with Europeans in the 1960s. The artists include painters working in acrylics and oils, as well as weavers coiling baskets and sculptors working in wood, grass, and wool. Martu artists proudly maintain their creative practices whilst pursuing social and cultural obligations across the Martu.

Martu Art from the Western Desert

This artwork comes from Martumili Artists, based in Newman in Western Australia and representing Martu artists living across remote desert communities. Martu Country covers more than 150,000 square kilometres of the Western Desert, including the Great Sandy, Little Sandy and Gibson Deserts, an expansive landscape punctuated by salt lakes and claypans.

— Image: Punu community on Nyayartakujarra (Lake Dora), Great Sandy Desert

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