Aboriginal Earrings
Country: Australian Aboriginal, Indigenous
Style: Printed Metal Earrings, Front printed with the artwork and back plain brown.
Material: Lightweight printed metal. Stainless steel details and French hooks.
Sizing: 6cm (H) x 3.5cm (W)
Story: Mina Mina Ngalyipi
Artist: Kirsty Anne Napanangka Martin-Brown
Return policy: Due to hygiene and safety reasons we cannot accept any returns of earrings.
Artwork Story:
'Ngalyipi' is the Warlpiri word for snake vine. It is a rope-like creeper that grows up the trunks and limbs of trees. Within the Mina Mina Dreaming story, ancestral women used digging sticks to collect this special vine.
Artist:
Kirsty Anne Napanangka Martin-Brown - Aboriginal Warlpiri woman.
Kirsty Anne Napanangka Martin-Brown grew up in Nyirripi, a remote Aboriginal community 450 km north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. She is the daughter of Agnes Nampijinpa Brown and the grand-daughter of Molly Napurrurla Martin, both artists working with the Warlukurlangu Art Centre. Kirsty has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation since 2005. Warlukurlangu Artists provides an outlet for Warlpiri artists to paint their cultural heritage and earn income from their work. This service is extended to Nyirripi artists, on a weekly basis, by delivering canvas and paint to artists and picking up finished artwork. Kirsty paints her Mina Mina Jukurrpa, Dreaming passed down on her father’s side. These stories, which relate directly to her land, its features and the fauna and flora that inhabit it, have been passed down for millennia. “I learnt about my culture...I know my Dreaming. I feel proud and closer to my culture when I paint my country.” Kirsty uses traditional iconography with an unrestricted palette to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional culture. When she’s not painting or working she likes to play softball or basketball as well as going hunting with friends.
Royalties from the sale of this licensed product go to the artists.
Designed in Australia by an Indigenous artist; Made in China