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Water Dreaming
Artist: Juliette Nampijinpa Brown
46 x 30 cm
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- Artist:Juliette Nampijinpa Brown
- Title:Water Dreaming
- ID:3818/15
- Medium:Acrylic on Belgian Linen
- Size:46 x 30 cm
- Region:Yuendumu, Central Australia
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Water Dreamingby Juliette 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:Juliette Nampijinpa Brown
- Title:Water Dreaming
- ID:3818/15
- Medium:Acrylic on Belgian Linen
- Size:46 x 30 cm
- Region:Yuendumu, Central Australia
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Artist
Juliette Nampijinpa Brown was born in 1971 in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km from Alice Springs in NT of Australia. Juliette was born into a long line of artists, her mother is Wendy Nungarrayi Brown and her grandparents are Bessie Nakamarra Sims (1932 – 2012) and Paddy Japaljarri Sims (1916-2010), all renowned artists, nationally and internationally and who paint and have painted with Walukurlangu Artists. Juliette attended Yuendumu School, which she enjoyed very much. When she left school she became a volunteer with the Old People’s Program, a program that helps care for the elderly. She has three children, “all grown up” and five grandchildren. Juliette has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu, since 2008. She paints her grandfather’s Jukurrpa stories; Ngapa and Pamapardu Jukurrpa. These stories relate directly to her land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. Juliette uses an unrestricted palette with traditional patterns and designs that stretch back at least fifty millennia to depict her traditional Jukurrpa. Juliette loves painting and enjoys sitting with her grandchildren while she paints. As the grandchildren watch she passes down her grandfather’s stories. When Juliette is not painting she loves to go hunting for honey ants.
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