“The wind ceremony forms winds… creates air to cool the lands…” - Jorna Newberry
Jorna Newberry is a respected indigenous artist from the Northern Territory, living and working in Alice Springs. She is Pitjantjatjara, whose ancestral lands span the Central Desert and cross the borders of South Australia, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory. The Central Desert is renowned as the birthplace of contemporary indigenous art tradition. It can be said that the artistic impulse runs in Newberry’s veins: she was taught and encouraged in painting by her uncle, the famous indigenous artist Tommy Watson, who is well-known for his large-scale, vibrantly coloured canvasses, which were an inspiration for one of the murals at the Museé du Quai Branly in Paris.