Mina Mina Jukurrpaby Saraeva Napangardi Marshall

The Dreaming comes from Mina Mina, a very important women's Dreaming site outside of Yuendumu in Central Australia. The owners of this Dreaming are the Napangardi and Napanangka women and the Japangardi and Japanangka men. There are a number of water soakages and claypans at Mina Mina. In the Dreamtime, ancestral women danced at Mina Mina and digging sticks rose up from the ground before travelling on to the east, dancing, digging for bush tucker, collecting Snake Vine and making places as they went. Snake Vine is used as a ceremonial wrap and a strap to carry coolamons.

In contemporary Warlpiri paintings, traditional iconography is used to depict the Jukurrpa, its elements and important sites. Sinuous lines are used to represent the Snake Vine, concentric circles are used to represent desert truffles that the women have collected while straight lines can be used to depict the digging sticks.

Artist:Saraeva Napangardi Marshall
Title:Mina Mina Jukurrpa
ID:1555-17
Medium:Acrylic on Canvas
Size:30 x 30 cm
Region:Yuendumu, Central Australia

Artist

Saraeva Napaljarri Marshall was born on the 24th December 1996 and comes from Yuendumu Community approximately 300km from Alice Springs in Central Australia. She is the daughter of Julie Nangala Robertson, an artist from Warlukurlangu Artists. She is also the granddaughter of highly acclained Aboriginal Artist Dorothy Napangardi (sadly deceased in 2013). Saraeva still attends school and is passionate about visual arts and hopes to become a successful artist like her mother and grandmother.

Although Saraeva has been exposed to painting and art from a young age through her family, it was only a few years ago in 2013 that she began to paint for Warlukurlangu Artist in Yuendumu. Saraeva paints her grandmothers Dreaming of Mina Mina Jukurrpa. She would watch her grandmother paint and she would be told about the important women's Dreaming site. This Dreaming has been passed down through the generations. Saraeva uses a wide range of colours and traditional iconography to develop her own unique contemporary style of interpretation of Mina Mina Dreaming.

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