Sharing an important Dreaming story deeply rooted in Warnman Country.

Jila Kujarra: Two Snakes Dreaming was an exciting cross-cultural collaboration between Warnman artist Desmond Taylor and Boorloo-based textiles practitioner Mariaan Pugh, commissioned by Fremantle Arts Centre in partnership with Martumili Artists.

Taylor and Pugh worked together to transform Taylor’s Niminjarra paintings, usually seen on canvas or paper, into highly tactile textile works, animating the important Niminjarra Jukurrpa (Dreaming).

This body of work was born of Taylor’s desire to see his artworks reimagined through a textile medium and was a contemporary crafting of important ancestral stories deeply rooted in Warnman Ngurra (Country).