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Crying After Massacre by Landon Punch

100% Linen - Medium weight

Landon is a young Ngarluma Yindjibarndi man, living and working on Ngarluma Country. He is an emerging artist who started painting by sitting and yarning with his nana, learning about his country and culture. He has also started learning traditional carving from Juluwarlu artist and elder, Wayne Stevens.

Landon painted this artwork with his Nana, Judith Coppin. She was sharing an important historical story, passing on knowledge about a site where rocks stand up straight overlooking the Novah West Shells. The site represents the murdered Ngarluma and Yaburrara people by the first settlers. After Learning the signifance of the site and story, they painted this artwork together.

Dry Country by Judith Coppin

100% Cotton - Medium weight

Judith is a Yindjibarndi Elder and Cultural Custodian, highly respected artist and community worker. Since 2010, Judith has been creating beautiful acrylic paintings on canvas. Her artworks are highly valued and have been part of major Perth-based exhibitions. Judith's artworks are intricately constructed, bold, deeply cultural, evolving from her passionate love of her Ngurra (country) and creation stories from Ngurra Nyujunggamu (when the world was soft).

This artwork is about the Yindjibarndi country drying up because of mining in the Pilbara. Mines will suck all the water from the underground water sources and its drying up all the permanent waterholes and damaging the ecosystems.

Sturt Peas by Sharona Walker

100% Cotton - Medium weight

Sharona is a young emerging Yindjibarndi Artist who began creating yarranga marni (carved boards) and acrylic paintings in 2017 as part of Juluwarlu’s Nyinyart Yinda Water Artists Cultural Futures Residencies Programs. Sharona explores themes that draws upon her Yindjibarndi relationships with rain, yinda (deep permanent pools), and ijarri (spings) that bring life to the plants, animals, fish and insects that have nourished Yindjibarndi people for more than 2,000 generations.

This artwork is a celebration of the wildflower season in the Pilbara, highlighting the incredible Thirlingwhirlingbiding (Sturt Desert Pea) that splashes across the desert.

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