NINNEY MURRAY | 'Guguway (Brown Pigeon Story of Murray Falls) - State II' | Screenprint

Ninney Murray identifies herself as a Girramay and Jirrbal Traditional Owner of the Davidson Creek area. Ninney lives at the Jumbun Community at Murray Falls, north-west of Cardwell and she is an Elder of her people.

Ninney is an expert weaver of all the traditional basket types created by the Girramay and Jirrbal people. Traditional styles include, the jawun bicornal lawyer cane basket, the burrajingal, a square-based lawyer cane basket, the gundala, a coiled lawyer cane basket and the traditional grass mindi basket. Ninney also creates traditional eel traps, wungarr, used to trap fresh water eels in the creek. Her Aunty passed down her weaving skills. Today Ninney continues to pass her weaving skills and traditional knowledge to her people through weaving workshops.

Ninney is also an emerging painter whose work captures the stories of the old people, her connection to country and the environments of her childhood. Her work provides a visual expression of culture.

NINNEY MURRAY | 'Guguway (Brown Pigeon Story of Murray Falls) - State II' | 2012 | Screenprint | Paper size: 52 (h) x 34.5 (w) cm