Minyma Kutjara by Jennifer Forbes

Minyma Kutjara (two women) travel from the otherside of Makura Piti heading north. The two sisters stop halfway near Wingellina. The younger one keeps looking back because she is homesick. The big sister said "why you looking back, why you crying? We are going long way." They travelled around all the different country. The younger sister realises that the older one is pregnant, she thinks how could that be there are no men. But there are men, sneaky men, and they camp with the older sister at night. This story is a women's and men's business story. The two girls keep travelling up past Docker River.

50 x 50cm acrylic on canvas

About the Artist

Jennifer Forbes was born in the bush around 1955. She grew up in the APY Lands and lives with her husband Sandy in Kalka. She is the sister in Law of Telstra winner Jimmy Donegan and is a devoted artist when she is in Kalka.