Mabel Juli Wiringgoon Gija, b. 1929
17 3/4 x 17 3/4 in
Ngayin doo Marranyji. Myself and the Dingo
Mabel has painted a portrait of herself, she has depicted herself as the woman who is seen within the middle front of the
artwork. painted in black and grey ochre colours, with white doing outlining her figure.
Beside her is what the artists described as a dingo that hides within the yellow section that Mabel has depicted as bush shrubs. Mabel recalls being out bush on her mother's country known as Spring Vale Station, while she was out walking there was a dingo that had been watching Mabel nearby but luckily the dingo had not attacked her.
'That marranyji (dingo) is Jawalyi skin. It means that's my uncle