Click to enlargeJimmy Nerrimah
c.1924 / c.1926 – 2013
- Region
- Western Desert
- Community
- Wayampajarti
- Language group
- Walmajarri
Yirloparri and Mirrunmirrun, 2006
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
90 x 60 cm
- Provenance
- Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing, WA, Cat No. 499/06
Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
- Artwork story
- The Jila (living water) is in the centre with jilji (saddunes) all around. Above is the pirnti (claypan) where we camped and below is a billabong nearby.
“I been all through this country walking around on foot as a young fella, I been gone to Yirloparri Jila and Mirrunmirrun soakwater”