ARTIST’S DESCRIPTION
I have painted the country on the Northern Territory side near Kildirk Station in the drytime - this country is called Gubun.  The tributaries featured bottom right of the painting are always flowing (yellow sand).  The flatlands have plenty of waterholes – the white waterhole is salt, the yellow and brown are fresh water, the black is bad water. The animals (turtle, goanna and sand-snake) needed to go towards the yellow and brown waterholes but they didn’t know so now they are fossils and still remain in this area today.

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ARTIST PROFILE

JUJU WILSON

Ju Ju was born at Mantinea Flats in the East Kimberley.  She was educated at Beagle Bay.  She is of the Mirruiwong/Gadgerong group and her Aboriginal name is Burriwee – but to everyone she is “Ju Ju”.  Mother of six, tour guide, much sought after cultural advisor, expert in bush tucker, bush medicines, advisor to those publishing booklets on these subjects – she has made numerous appearances on Television regarding these topics.  Ju Ju is a renowned didgeridoo maker, both carves and paints boomerangs and is an authority on rock art and sacred sites and speaks five dialects fluently.

Ju Ju is a member of a well known painting family – her grandmother Sheba, her mother Freda (dcsd.) and her daughter Reagan – four generations of very talented ladies.
 
Her paintings and artefacts are collected world-wide.  In 2003 Ju Ju was asked to paint trophies for the Dubai Racing Club, home of the World’s Richest Race Meeting.  These trophies featured Australian Indigenous Animals and were stunning. 
 
Ju Ju favours detailed subject matter in fine palette ochre – and because of her family connections, the content of her paintings range from the land around Kununurra to Purnululu (Bungle Bungles) and Rock Art.