Collection: Reanelle Jurra

DOB 1987

Country Willowra, NT

Language Warlpiri

Skin name Nungarrayi

Reanelle Jurra is a young artist from Willowra, a remote community 300kms Northwest of Alice Springs on the banks of the Lander River.

She is the niece of renowned artist Janet Long Nakamarra and her grandmother, Mary Ross is also a talented artist.  She learnt to paint by watching her grandmother and aunty from a young age and her style is like both ladies.

Reanelle spends her time between Willowra and Alice Springs and lives with her grandmother, where they often sit and paint together.

Reanelle Jurra often paints the waterholes around which important edible vegetation grows.  In Reanelle’s paintings, the roundels are the waterholes depicted from above and the dots are the seeds or plants growing.  Waterholes are cared for and maintained by the Aboriginal people, as they not only provide an important resource for them to drink in a desolate environment but also for the animals (also a food source) that come to drink at the site.

Jurra is an exceptionally talented artist with an exciting career ahead of her.