Description
Details
- Type: Screen print
- Edition: 99
- Paper: Magnani Pescia
- Size: 460 x 660 mm (image) and 560 x 760 mm (paper)
- Printer: Basil Hall, Basil Hall Editions Darwin, NT 2003
Story
This print shows the artists country at Majalindy in the Northern Territory. The two large grey overlapping areas at the centre of the image are two hills. Traveling across country from the top of the print you come up and over these two hills and down between the two smaller hills below – Meeway Hills. The circles either side of the Majalindy Hills are two billabongs. The smaller horseshoe shapes are small hills.
Mignonette Jamin Artist Biography
Lived: c1931 – 2010
Mignonette was born at Muthanoongamaya – Majalindy Valley on Majalindy Creek a tributary of the Fitzmaurice River near Palumpa in the Northern Territory. She was a highly respected law woman amongst her community. As a child and young woman Mignonette walked all over the country from Bullo River to Kununurra. She lived at Legune Station and went to school at Port Keats. She came to Kununurra when she was about 10 years old. Mignonette painted her traditional Country – the rivers and billabongs, coastal areas, the hills, rocky ridges, roads and other land marks as well as sites significant to women’s business which belongs to her dreaming for country at Muthanoongamaya – Majalindy Valley and empowered her as a healer. She also painted country around Kununurra and Wyndham associated with her husband’s Country – the Carlton Hill Station area. Her paintings have attracted much attention with their powerfully balanced compositions, an expansive palette and an individually free expressiveness and vibrancy. Her canvases pulse with the energy of place. Intimate stories and memories of Country link these images to her extensive knowledge of Country . Sadly Mignonette Jamin passed on 19 December 2010. Her joyful presence is very much missed.
Courtesy: Waringarri Arts
Collections
ART GALLERY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
CITY OF PERTH WA
EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY
KLUGE RUHE ABORIGINALART COLLECTION VIRGINIA USA
SCOTCH COLLEGE COLLECTION PERTH WA
SIR CHARLES GARDINER HOSPITAL COLLECTION
UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG NSW
WESFARMERS COLLECTION
ZHONGFU CORPORATION COLLECTION
