In Jukuna's own words: "I paint my mother’s and father’s country. This is the country where I was living before. When I paint, it is this country that I am thinking about. During the hot time (October to January) we would live at one place, near living water. We would eat kuyu (game) and mangarri (variety of bush foods). My feeling for my country comes from the stories too. When I was a young girl my mother and my father and the old people taught me about Ngarrangkarni (Dreamtime).

When I go to my country I think about my parents walking around all the different waterholes and the japi (features around waterholes which indicate the presence of Kalpurtu the water snake). I like going back to my country to see the waterholes. It is sad too because my father is buried there.

I think about my country all of the time. I like to paint the desert, it makes me think about my parents. I paint my country, the different places, the mangarri and the waterholes. I give the names for the waterholes, for those places we used to walk to."

In her own words: "This is my country near Tarpu. I always walk around here with Wakartu when I was a little one. We would get witchety grub and ngarika and other mangarri bush tucker.

Sometimes when I dream I go back there and I look all around my country, like when I was a kid. I get that feeling inside like I was still there. I have painted all different tree's like turtujarti, yarun, tarnjubtu and Wirrijati. I have also painted bush honey and different grasses."

DOB: 1938 - 2011

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Exhibitions

1991 Karrayili Tandanya, Adelaide

1992 Group Show, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney

1993 Mangkaja Women, Tandanya, Adelaide

1993 images of Power: Aboriginal Art from the Kimberley, National Gallery Victoria

1994 National Aboriginal Art Awards, Northern Territory Art Gallery and Museum, Darwin

1994 Ngajakurra Ngurrara Minyarti, this is my country, Festival of Perth, Artplace Gallery, Perth

1995 Kimberley Art, Melbourne

1995 Group show, Australian Perspectives Gallery, Brisbane

1996 Heritage Commission Art Award, Old Parliment House, Canberra

1996 Group Show, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney

1997 Group Show, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney

1998 Wangarr and Mangki: Shadow and Spirit with Peter Skipper, Artplace Gallery, Perth

1998 Group Show, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London

1999 Ngurrara, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle

1999 Short on Size, Short St. Gallery, Broome

2000 Ngarta and Jukuna, L'art sur la Place, Biennale de Lyon, France

2000 Short on Size, Short St. Gallery, Broome

2001 Past Modern, Short St. Gallery @ Australia Square, Sydney

2001 Ngurrara Canvas, National Gallery of Australia

2001 Mangkaja Tenth Year Anniversary Exhibition, Tandanya, Adelaide

2001 Short on Size, Short St. Gallery, Broome

2002 Group Show, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2002 Recent Works from Mangkaja, Short St. Gallery, Broome

2002 Wayampajarti, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne

2002 Short on Size, Short St. Gallery, Broome

2003 Jukuna Mona Chugana & Pijaju Peter Skipper, Artplace Gallery,Perth

2003 Jaja and Jaja, Short St. Gallery, Broome

2003 Jila, Jumu, Jiwari and Wirrkuja, University of Western Australia, Perth

2003 Jukuna Mona Chuguna and Pijaju Peter Skipper, Artplace Gallery, Perth

2004 Broken Promises, Short St. Gallery, Broome

2004 This is still my country 10 years on, Perth International Arts Festival, Artplace, Perth

2004 Ngurara Canvas, Perth Concert Hall, Perth International Arts Festival

2004 Peter Skipper and Mona Chuguna, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne

2006 Mona Chuguna and Cory Surprise, Short St. Gallery, Broome

2007 Women Artists of Fitzroy Crossing, Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT

Publications

2004 Porta oberta al Dreamtime. Art Aborigen Contemporani d’ Australia Caixa de Girona, Girona , Spain

2003 Martuwarra and Jila, Jumu, Jiwari and Wirrkuja, Exhibition Catalogue Cullity Gallery UWA Perth / Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency The Painted Desert The Fate of an Aboriginal Masterpiece , New Yorker Magazine July 28, 2003

2001 Painting Up Big, The Ngurrara Canvas , Kaltja Now National Aboriginal Cultural Institute - Tandanya 18th National Aboriginal & Torres Straight Islander Art Award Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

2000 Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art, Oxford University Press & ANU Karrayili The history of Karrayili Adult Education Centre , IATSIS Canberra

1998 Jila Painted Waters of the Great Sandy Desert, Video Documentary / SBS Television

1994 Ngajakura Ngurrara Minyarti, This Is My Country, Exhibition Catalogue

1993 Images of Power: Aboriginal Art from the Kimberley Exhibition catalogue Mangkaja Women Exhibition catalogue, Fremantle Art Centre

1991 Karrayili; 10 years on , Exhibition Catalogue

Collections

National Gallery of Australia

Art Gallery of New South Wales

National Gallery of Victoria

Australian Print Workshop

Northern Territory University

Art gallery of Western Australia