Opening of the Termite Hill

Size: A3

"This work is about Yindjibarndi Munda (rocky hills) on the tablelands, on my Ngurra (country). My ancestors walked the land. The old ladies would get the seeds from the grass and grind it down to make flour. The ladies would sit at the bottom of the hill while some of the old men would be carving pictures in the rock.  They tell stories with their carving, wirjuna (hill kangaroo), emu, lizard. They are still there today. We go there sometimes when we go out camping, nobody can touch it. Keep it safe. Makes our spirit happy seeing it again."

- Judith Coppin

About the Artist:

Judith is an Yindjibarndi Elder and Cultural Custodian, highly respected artist and community worker. Since 2010, Judith has been creating beautiful acrylic paintings on canvas. In the past three years she has extended her art practices to her very beautiful yarranga marni (carved boards), her artworks are highly valued and selected for major Perth-based exhibitions. Judith’s artworks are intricately constructed, bold, deeply cultural, evolving from her passionate love of her Ngurra (country) and creation stories from Ngurra Nyujunggamu (when the world was soft). Yarranga Marni artworks by Judith have sold to the WA Department of Arts and Culture Collection, and her work featured on the cover of the 2019 Rio Tinto Colours of our Country Catalogue more recently they were exhibited in The Track We Share Exhibition at The Art Gallery of Western Australia.