Image credit: Desmond Taylor and Mariaan Pugh, Miminjarra nyurmna, 2021. Image courtesy Mariaan Pugh.
Jila Kujarra: Two Snakes Dreaming
Jila Kujarra: Two Snakes Dreaming is 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 have 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).
Niminjarra is the two brothers transforming into a snake so they can come back home to Ngayartakujarra (Lake Dora). They were in training for ceremony, those two brothers, but they were kept too long, and nobody was there to release them. They waited then they decided to transform into snakes to travel back to where they came from, because their mother was waiting for them. This is Jukurrpa (Dreaming story).
Desmond Taylor, 2019
This body of work is born of Taylor’s desire to see his artworks reimagined through a textile medium and is a contemporary crafting of important ancestral stories deeply rooted in Warnman Ngurra (Country).
Courthouse Gallery+Studio, Port Hedland | August 4 — September 13, 2023
Exhibition Package Details
| ARTISTS | Desmond Taylor and Mariaan Pugh |
| MEDIA | Painting and textiles |
| INSTALLATION | Minimum of 26 running meters |
| MARKETING | Marketing Kit (includes e-invitation template, artwork for hard copy invitation, media release, promotional images, logos and acknowledgements) |
| INTERPRETATION MATERIALS | Exhibition and sponsorship panels Artwork labels and story panels Exhibition brochures (free for distribution) Short video documentry (AV equipment included with tour) Engagement activity |
| TOUR DURATION | Until 1 August 2025 Available WA and interstate. |
| COST SHARE | ART ON THE MOVE Members: $3,000 (inc. GST) Non-Members: $3,500 (inc. GST) Interstate Galleries: Cost Negotiable |
