Ngapa Jukurrpaby Jilian Nampijinpa Brown

The country associated with this Ngapa Jukurrpa is Mikanji, a watercourse west of Yuendumu that is usually dry. There are Mulju in this creek bed. The Kirda of this Dreaming site are Nangala/Nampijinpa woman and Jangala/Jampijinpa men. Mikanji is an important water Dreaming site and features in at least three different water Dreaming tracks. In one story, the water Dreaming travelled from Puyurru, north west of Yuendumu (a remote Aboriginal community) to a mulgu in the Mikanji creek. It unleashed a huge storm there. Two old blind women of the Nampijinpa skin group were sitting by the side of the soakages. As the two women strained their eyes to see the sky, tears formed in their eyes, creating the rain. Their spirits can still be seen at Mikanji in the form of two "Ngapiri" (River Red Gums) growing near the soakage.

Artist:Jilian Nampijinpa Brown
Title:Ngapa Jukurrpa
ID:3652-16
Medium:Acrylic on Canvas
Size:46 x 46 cm
Region:Yuendumu, Central Australia

Artist

Jillian Nampijinpa Brown was born in 1975 and comes from Yuendumu Community approximately 300km from Alice Springs in Central Australia. She grew up in Yuendumu attending the local school and then high school at a boarding school in Alice Springs. She returned to Yuendumu and worked in the local child care centre before beginning to paint for Warlukurlangu Artists full time in 1999. She paints her father's Dreamings which relate to her country, the land, it's features including plants and animals. These Dreamings have been passed down through her father's side of the family for generations.

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