Janet Marawarr

Biography

Janet is a senior Kuninjku artist at Babbarra Designs working with lino tiles and screen print designs. Janet is renown for her use of cut out lino tiles which she prints in intuitive repeat patterns on a range of textile surfaces. Janet regards textile design as an opportunity to work with colour and new methods to express her djang (ancestral creation stories).

‘I like lino, print my design and doing different way to print my lino, different colours and different way. I print lino Yawkyawk (spirit woman) and Ngaldjorlhbo (mother of Everything). This was an old lady and she create that language and the world before. I also print also Rolk (maggot), my mother design cause I’m the Djunkay (land manager) for her.’  Janet Marawarr 2020

As well as her artistic work with Bábbarra Women’s Centre, she is an established bark painter with Maningrida Arts & Crafts and she works for the Maningrida Night Patrol, a community safety service.

Languages

Kuninjku, Kune

Ancestor spirits

Mandjurlukkurn (Wild black berries), Dadbe (King brown snake), Gungura (Spiral Wind)

Homeland

Maningrida

Outstation

Mumeka, Mankorlod

Moiety

Duwa

Subsection

Kalidjan

Date of birth

1962

Fabrics for sale

Kip&Co × Bábbarra

Artist's designs

Past Exhibitions