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Mina Mina by Flora Brown

Flora Brown
Title
Mina Mina by Flora Brown
Dimensions
89 × 120 cm
Region
Central Desert

Provenance and context of painting

• Artist: Flora Brown
• Skin name: Nakamarra
• Born: 1 January 1963
• Language: Warlpiri
• Residence: Hoppy’s Camp, Alice Springs
• Title: Mina Mina
• Dreaming: Mina Mina
• Date: 31 October 2005
• Medium: Acrylic on canvas
• Size: 120 × 90 cm
• Catalogue code: TAFB05C37
• Provenance: Tangentyere Artists, Alice Springs
• Accompanied by its original Tangentyere Artists Certificate of Authenticity
• The certificate identifies Mina Mina as the Country of Flora Brown’s mother.
• The white circles represent rock holes in the area.
• Repeated flowing lines extend across the canvas, with the rock-hole forms positioned throughout the composition.
• The original documentation provides a direct connection between the painting, Flora Brown, her mother’s Country and the specific landscape feature represented in the work.

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One Phoenix Arts acknowledges the Larrakia people as the Traditional Owners of the land on which our gallery stands, and pays respect to Elders past and present. We acknowledge the artists and their communities across the Northern Territory, the Kimberley and the deserts, who hold the stories in these works.