Yinjaa Barni

Yinjaa-Barni Art is a collective of Aboriginal artists who predominantly belong to the Yindjibarndi language group and whose ancestral homelands surround the Fortescue River and Millstream Tablelands.

Based in Roebourne, a small town in Western Australia’s Pilbara region of the north-west of the state, the Yinjaa-Barni artists create deeply personal works of collective memory, rendering the wildflowers, river systems and landforms of their country onto canvas.

Yinjaa-Barni artists have exhibited nationally and internationally and have won multiple awards between them, with high profile artists Mr Mack and Allery Sandy both nominated for one of the country’s most prestigious Indigenous art prizes, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, and works by Aileen Sandy, Maudie Jerrold and Mr Mack held by the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

For the senior members of the group, art is an important means of expressing and relaying love for their Country, their culture, and the flora of the region. They use this, along with storytelling, as a way of passing on their knowledge to the younger generations, who are rapidly gaining recognition as artists in their own right.

Yinjaa-Barni Art Centre would like to acknowledge and thank Rio Tinto for its continuous support over the past 10 years. Rio Tinto supports the centre and artists through funding and the annual Colours of our Country Exhibition.

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Artworks

MELISSA SANDY - 'Autumn Leaves' (6044-22)

MELISSA SANDY – 'Sturt Pea' (6045-22)

Aileen Sandy – Colours of the Pilbara Rocks (6288-22)

AILEEN SANDY - 'Jiirda (Increasing Site)'

RODNEY ADAMS - 'Pyramid Boundary'

MAUDIE JERROLD - 'Yilyway'

ALLERY SANDY - 'Marni'

AILEEN SANDY - 'Colours Through the Rocks'

AILEEN SANDY - 'Colours through the Rocks'

RENEE WALLY - 'Binyirrinha Munda at night full moon'

MELISSA SANDY - 'My Design'

MAUDIE JERROLD – 'The Seagulls and the Cormack Birds (5990-21)'

MELISSA SANDY – 'Sturt Pea' (5962-21)

MAUDIE JERROLD - 'My Country Landscape' (5991-21)

RENEE WALLY – 'Pilbara Hills' (5956-21)

DAWN SANDY - Pilbara Wildflowers (5456-20)

MARLENE HARROLD – Country bluebells (5514-20)

AILEEN SANDY - Colours of the Rocks (5583-20)

CLIFTON MACK - Jarman Island (Lighthouse)

MAUDIE JERROLD - Saltbush Flowers

CLIFTON MACK - Lighthouse Series

CLIFTON MACK - Jarman Island (Lighthouse)

MELISSA SANDY - Becoming One (3703-15)

MELISSA SANDY - Mt Florence Stockyard

MAUDIE JERROLD - Coolabah Seed

CLIFTON MACK - Jarman Island (Lighthouse)

CLIFTON MACK - Jarman Island (Lighthouse) #2

MAUDIE JERROLD - Coolabah Seeds

MAUDIE JERROLD - Coolabah Seeds #2

CLIFTON MACK - Lighthouse Series

CLIFTON MACK - Jarman Island (Lighthouse) II

CLIFTON MACK - Jarman Island (Lighthouse) I

MARLENE HAROLD - Early Morning Mist

MAUDIE JERROLD - Yiliway (Rainbow)

CLIFTON MACK - Jarman Island Lighthouse I

WENDY DARBY - Country II

AILEEN SANDY - Jiirda (Increasing Site)

WENDY DARBY - Red Dust

MAUDIE JERROLD - Seeds

Jarman Lighthouse

Jarman Lighthouse Sunset

CLIFTON MACK - Limestone (detail)

MAUDIE JERROLD - Yiliway

MAUDIE JERROLD – Fireworks

ALLERY SANDY – Coral Reef

MAUDIE JERROLD – Emu Seed

CLIFTON MACK – Fortescue Hills

ALLERY SANDY – In The Beginning

MAUDIE JERROLD – The Mulga Leaf

CLIFTON MACK – Eagle Feathers

Installations

Yinjaa Barni #1

Yinjaa Barni #2

Yinjaa Barni #3

Yinjaa Barni #4

Paintings from the Pilbara

Paintings from the Pilbara #2

Paintings from the Pilbara #3

Paintings from the Pilbara #4

Paintings from the Pilbara #5

Paintings from the Pilbara #6

AILEEN SANDY – 'Colours of the Rocks' (3 panels)

CLIFTON MACK - Jarman Island (Lighthouse)

Yinjaa Barni

Yinjaa Barni #2

Yinjaa Barni #3

Yinjaa Barni #4

Yinjaa Barni #5

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Exhibitions

2021

Paintings from the Pilbara

2017

Maudie Jerrold: 'Yiliway'

2016

Jasper Knight and Clifton Mack,

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Group Exhibitions

2016

Clifton Mack, Lighthouses with Jasper Knight, Chalk Horse, Sydney

2015

Yinjaa Barni, Chalk Horse, Sydney

2014

Yinjaa Barni, Melbourne Art Fair 2014

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Awards & Prizes

2009

Landscape, Oil or Acrylic

2008

Winner Invited Artist, Cossack Art Awards

2007

Overall Winner, Cossack Art award

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Collections

Art Gallery of Western Australia

Vitali Gallery, Florence Italy

Exhibitions

All / Current / Upcoming / Past

Yinjaa Barni

Artworks

Installations

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Exhibitions

Colours of the Pilbara

Paintings from the Pilbara

Yinjaa Barni

Melbourne Art Fair 2014 - Stand: E101

Yinjaa Barni (2011)

Yinjaa Barni Project