Juluwarlu - Joylene Warrie Picnic Rug (m/jul016)

Picnic rug featuring designs based on an original artwork by Joylene Warrie called "Permanent Waterholes."

MATERIALS: Digitally printed onto water resistant neoprene.

DIMENSIONS: 135cm x 180cm.

This picnic rug is hemmed and comes with a strap and buckle.

CARE INSTRUCTIONS: Hose down or machine wash on cold with a gentle and hand wash cycle. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Juluwarlu Art Group is a collective of Yindjibarndi artists who celebrate Yindjibarndi Country, culture and language through a diverse range of artistic practices. The collective is based in Ieramagadu (Roebourne), a town of approximately 900 people which is located in the remote north-western Pilbara region of Western Australia, while the ancestral homeland of the artists, Yindjibarndi Country, surrounds the nearby Millstream Tablelands and Fortescue River area.

Joylene is a Yindjibarndi cultural knowledge holder and artist who has been exhibiting her paintings and achieving strong sales for more than ten years. She lives in the small Aboriginal community of Cheeditha, and before joining the Juluwarlu Artists’ Group in 2018, Joylene painted and exhibited with the Cheeditha Art Group. Joylene’s intricate acrylic paintings on canvas draw upon her spiritual connection with the skies and landscapes of her family’s Millstream country and themes of her deeply felt Yindjibarndi relationships with rain, yinda (deep permanent pools), and ijarri (springs) that bring life to the plants, animals, fish and insects that have nourished her Yindjibarndi people for more than 2,000 generations.  

This item is available in Store at Midland Junction Arts Centre. 

Image courtesy of the artist.