Always Anthills in Ngurra, 2024

This is my Ngurra, ancient and living. The Hills mark a boundary between Yindjibarndi and Gurruma country. I am painting the curving ancient stone that’s been worn and beaten by 3.5 billion years of heat, ice ages, great droughts and cyclonic rains are waiting. Remembering everything through every season. I began to draw the rocks because I found my courage and strength. It took me a long time to reach this strength. Remembering my Yindjibarndi people coming and going. Caring for our homelands 60,000 years since our creation times we call Ngurra Nyujungammu, when the world was soft as clay and the sky was very low on the earth. We are still doing it, sung in our Law ceremonies. Travelling in our country, looking after it according to our Law. When the wind comes, it lifts our spirits like leaves, and we hear the voices of our Old People calling us closer. Ngurra, country its beautiful its goonmardii (plenty of food, good country) We can go fishing, we got kangaroos, turkeys, we never cook in the river, we cook up top. I paint to show people how to appreciate country, to not rubbish it, always pick your rubbish up because country will be there forever, for generation to generation.

Wendy Hubert is a respected Yindjibarndi Elder, cultural custodian, arƟst and linguist. Born at Red Hill StaƟon on
Guruma Country, Wendy lived at Red Hill StaƟon, Minderoo StaƟon and Onslow before seƩling in Roebourne. Wendy
met her husband in Roebourne through her work in community health and together they had three sons. Wendy
began painƟng with Juluwarlu Art Group in 2019, and has become a dedicated arƟst known for her landscape
painƟngs recounƟng scenes from her childhood and featuring important places on Yindjibarndi and Guruma Country.
Wendy was selected for the 2023 Telstra NATSIAA and the 26th Sydney Biennale. She has exhibited her artworks in
the Pilbara and Perth including mulƟple Cossack Art Awards and Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal ArƟsts at
Fremantle Arts Centre.
With support from CreaƟve Australia, 2025 will see Juluwarlu Arts launch an biography of Wendy’s incredible life story
and connecƟon to country, depicted through a detailed retrospecƟve of her painƟngs to date.
“I know my Ngurra. I know its Laws. I am a Yindjibarndi Custodian, old now, but strong in my thinking and my life.”
Wendy Hubert, 2021
Solo Exhibitions
2024, August Tactile Arts with Paul Johnstone Gallery, Darwin, NT Wendy Hubert, Ngurra Goonmardii

(Country is Plentiful)

Group Exhibitions
2024, March The Good Shed, Perth Represent: Aboriginal Figurative Practice in WA, Part 2
2024, March The 24th Biennale of Sydney Ten Thousand Suns
2023, October A Showcase of Pilbara Traditional Owners Exhibition by Rio Tinto Colours of Our Country
2023, August Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin, NT NATSIAA
2022, August Salon des Refuses NATSIAA
2022, March Art Gallery of Western Australia, Tracks We Share, Perth
2022, February The Good Shed, Perth Emergence
2021, July The Good Shed, Perth NGARDAMARRI
2019, August A Showcase of Pilbara Traditional Owners Exhibition by Rio Tinto Colours of Our Country
2018, August A Showcase of Pilbara Traditional Owners Exhibition by Rio Tinto Colours of Our Country
2017, August A Showcase of Pilbara Traditional Owners Exhibition by Rio Tinto Colours of Our Country

Awards
2021 Cossack Art Awards, Cossack

2020 NAIDOC Art Award, Heal Country, Epic, 3rd place2020 Cossack Art Awards, Cossack
2019 Cossack Art Awards, Cossack