Mabel Juli
Moon and Star 2010
Natural ochre on canvas 60 x80cm
Catalogue:35710
- First and Second Generation Artists from Waringarri Aboriginal Arts and Warmun Art Centre: 2009
- Dog Dreaming of Warmun: 2007
ARTIST STATEMENT
'I started painting when the old girl [Queenie McKenzie]was here -she was the one who taught me to paint. She told me, 'You try that painting’, and I started to paint. I was doing that Karnkiny [Moon Dreaming]; that's the painting started with –because my mother and father told me that Ngarrangkarni [Dreamtime] story. I was reminded of all those stories from my mum and dad -like Glingennayn Hill and the Old Woman Singing Out for Her Dog. Those stories come from my country), [Springvale-south of Warmun].
'They used to take me out bush when I was a little girl -good size-and they told me all about those Dreamtime stories. And I always remember those stories. I got 'em in my brain.'