Friday, April 14, 2023
MARINA PUMANI
OPENING TONIGHT 6-8PM
Exhibition dates:
Friday 14 April - May 13th 2023
Viewing location: 8270 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles
Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 11am-5pm
Marina Pumani Brown was born in Mimili Community on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of South Australia. She comes from a long line of strong female painters. Her grandmother was Milatjari Pumani, who was one of the most famous artists in the APY region. Her mother is Betty Kuntiwa Pumani and her aunt was Ngupulya Pumani. Marina grew up watching these strong Pumani women paint. Marina has developed a distinctive interpretation of the Tjukurpa passed on to her through her family line. She expresses her role in the larger story of cultural continuity in unique and powerful paintings which resemble abstract maps of the landscape. In her work she references the essence of her family’s homeland around Antara and Paralpi, nestled in the granite hills of the Everard Ranges.
In her art practice, Marina shows contemporary ways of seeing her ancestral knowledge, sharing insights into her experience of day-to-day community life. Marina often spends the weekends out on country with her mother and daughter, collecting minkulpa (bush tobacco), maku (witchetty grubs) and care for the local tjukula (rock holes). Particularly after kapi pulka (big rains), the land becomes so fertile, that they harvest bush foods like the gnurru (lollie tree) and camp out on country like the old people used to.
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