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The Walkatjurra Artist Exhibition: Goldfields Art Gallery – 30 Sept to 9 Oct 2014

26/09/2014 Leave a comment

The Walkatjurra Artist Exhibition Oct 2014

The Walkatjurra Artists are proud to announce that we will be having an exhibition of our artworks at the Goldfields Art Centre Gallery from 30 Sept to 9 Oct 2014. This exhibition features artworks by our established and emerging artists. The exhibition and production of artworks has been made possible with funding and support from;

Goldfields Employment & Training Services (GETS)
Shire Of Leonora
Minara Foundation
Leonora District High School, and
Marnta Media Pty Ltd

These works will be for sale at the exhibition.

: Deeva Muir, Earth Series 2, $250

: Bridget Jackson, Seven Sisters Dreaming, $390

: Deeva Muir, Earth Series 4, $250

: Troy Chapman, Watersnake, $1300

: Nuala Evans, untitled, $195

: Deeva Muir, Earth Series 3, $250

: Marsha Riley, Bushfoods, $240

: Deeva Muir, Galah, $280

: Kado Muir, Tjiwarl Country, $1500

: Troy Chapman, Mopoke, $1300

: Kado Muir, West Terraces, $195

: Marsha Riley, untitled, $240

: Deeva Muir, Earth Series 6, $250

: Deeva Muir, Earth Series 5, $250

: Kuberan Muir, Dragonfly Dreaming, $195

: Deeva Muir, At Lake Miranda, $280

: Kado Muir, Mingari, $195

: Kevin Banks, Honey Ants, $234

: Shirley Wonyabong, Lake Miranda, SOLD

: Deeva Muir, In Flight, $280

: Deeva Muir, Earth Series 1, $280

: Deeva Muir, Lake Miranda, $280

: Karthi Muir, My Dreaming, $325

: Bridget Jackson, Bushfoods 1, $390

: Kado Muir, Kapi, $195

: Bridget Jackson, Bushfoods 2, $390

If you are interested in purchasing any artworks from the exhibition, please contact the Goldfields Art Center 08 9088 6900.

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Walkatjurra Rangers Green Army Project comes to Leonora

01/09/2014 Leave a comment

Media Statement released 28/08/22014

The Walkatjurra Rangers is supported by the Australian Government’s Green Army Programme and the Marnta Media Pty Ltd a local Aboriginal family owned company based in Leonora Western Australia.

Marnta Media were successful in securing two Green Army projects this financial year and a third next year under our Walkatjurra Rangers arm. The Walkatjurra Rangers are an Aboriginal land, heritage and environment service creating employment and training opportunities for Aboriginal people in the North Eastern Goldfields region.

Kado Muir, Director of Marnta Media says the Green Army programme gives additional impetus to Walkatjurra Ranger projects that already has links to Creative Industry initiatives, Community Services, Remote Jobs Communities Projects and other Aboriginal employment and training initiatives. “Yesterday I had our first meeting with our Service Provider and we will now be moving very quickly into recruiting young people between ages of 17 to 24 years old to work on our Green Army Projects. We hope to commence our project in November 2014.”

The Green Army is a great opportunity for young Australians aged 17-24 years to gain training and experience in environmental and heritage conservation fields. There will be nine places on our Walkatjurra Rangers Green Army team and we are looking for young people in the Leonora community, possibly also from Menzies, Wiluna and Laverton.

We are talking to Training providers to set up a suitable training program to support our projects and more importantly to ensure that each of the young people commencing on our project gain the right level of training to help them find jobs either with us or in the broader community.

Young people or their family interested in being involved in this programme are encouraged to contact us.

ABC Radio Goldfields Esperance Interview:

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Walkatjurra Junior Rangers help CCWA

01/03/2014 Leave a comment

Walkatjurra Junior Rangers capped off a big year for the Walkatjurra rangers with a field trip helping Dr Nic Dunlop of Conservation Council of WA and the Citizen Science initiative undertake a study at Mt Forrest Nature reserve.

The junior rangers worked alongside Dr Dunlop to run a ghost net over Wutukumpu spring, trapping, measuring and identifying up to seven species of bat.

They also set up and monitored traplines, catching small animals like this lizard.

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The Walkatjurra Junior Rangers caught a Painted Snipe at Mt Forrest which is listed as threatened under the EPBC Act and Rare & Likely to Become Extinct under the WA Wildlife Conservation Act. The species declined significantly everywhere early last century and has only been recorded 5 times in Western Australia since 1909.

All up it was a successful fieldtrip to document and record animals in an cultural and natural environment subject to intense pressures from mining and exploration companies.

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CORS art links Technology with Tradition: Mt Leonora Aboriginal Site restoration

14/11/2013 1 Comment

Video prepared of the relocation of the CORS repeater station from top of Mt Leonora to a location that does not impact Aboriginal heritage. In this video, Walkatjurra Rangers worked with junior Walkatjurra Artists to paint the CORS station as a final part of the relocation and restoration of heritage values on Mt Leonora.

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Walkatjurra Walkabout Artworks

22/10/2013 Leave a comment

A painting by Walkatjurra Artist Vicky Abdullah that has been printed on t-shirts and sold in Australia and Europe to support the Walkatjurra Walkabout and the Wanti Uranium campaign.

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Papinmaru the DVD that launched the Walkatjurra Junior Rangers

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Back in 2007 several youth from the Walkatjurra Cultural Centre made a video about goanna (papinmaru) hunting in the goldfields. They entered a short three minute version into the international Lonely Planet “less than three” short film competition. They beat hundreds of entries to take runner up.

A longer 15m version of ‘Papinmaru’ is available for purchase as DVD. Contact the WCC for detail.

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Fat-tailed Dunnart – Spotted!

22/10/2013 Leave a comment

Here the Walkatjurra Rangers captured some valuable footage of the Fat-tailed Dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata), a native marsupial not often seen by many due to is nocturnal habits.

The motion sensor camera’s have a red LED light that activates when they are triggered to record. You can see the little guy staring straight at it, having never seen anything like it before!

Nice capture team!

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Walkatjurra Pottery

26/09/2014 Leave a comment

We are pleased to show work in progress of pottery pieces from the Walkatjurra Pottery project funded in part by Country Arts Quick Response grant. All photographs taken by Deeva Muir in the Leonora Disctrict Highschool Art Room, Leonora, WA.

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ABC Goldfields – Looking at what our Ngadju Neighbours are doing

04/09/2014 Leave a comment

Ngadju kala is the ancient traditional practice of using fire to manage and protect land. Conservationists want to adapt kala to use as a modern tool.

Fire has been used as a tool for thousands of years in the Ngadju Native Title area in the southern Goldfields.

See what Ngadju Conservation coordinator Les Schultz has to say:

Adapting the traditional Ngadju use of fire to protect Great Western Woodlands – ABC Goldfields WA – Australian Broadcasting Corporation.