Netta Loogatha Birrmuyingathi Maali

It's good to make artworks, learn from each other. We learned all about our country and story places from our old people. Now we are painting and drawing them so our grandchildren will learn all about them.

Our Aunty Sally Gabori showed us the way, to learn from her and follow in her footsteps. We have our own paintings and drawings now of our homelands and sacred places, where we were born, oyster reefs and waterholes or camping spots. I am happy to show other people my country and culture through my art. It brings a smile to my face when I finish an artwork and see a part of me on it.

I was born on Bentinck Island at a place on the Northern side called Bilmee. We lived in humpies then - no clothes nothing at all. I learnt to hunt from an early age, how to fish and collect shellfish, how to gather foods from the bush. I was young when the Europeans came in 1946 to take us away from our home and forced us to live on Mornington Island in the dormitory in the mission there.

My father was King Alfred, he had six wives. When he died, his brother Percy took over the family and took care of us. When I grew up I went to the mainland and worked as a housemaid like a lot of the young girls from the island. I enjoyed this time being young and having fun. I returned to Mornington and became strongly involved in Land Rights and my people's wish to return to our homeland. I was a grandmother by the time we returned to our homeland and I used to live there most of the year, only returning to Mornington for the wet season. Now I am getting too old to live there. I cry for an opportunity to set my foot on my homeland again. My artworks have become even more important to me to keep my memories of my home and culture ever strong.

Netta Loogatha Birrmuyingathi Maali

Netta Loogatha passed away 27th September 2022

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Artworks

798-21

798-21

$1,750.00

Netta Loogatha

My Country - Bilmee - 2021

40.5 cm diameter

Acrylic on round canvas

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360-21

360-21

$1,750.00

Netta Loogatha

Kurdakurinda - Fresh Water - 2021

41.5 cm diameter

Acrylic on round canvas

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387-21

387-21

$1,750.00

Netta Loogatha

Dog Story Place - 2021

41.5 cm diameter

Acrylic on round canvas

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399-21

399-21

$1,750.00

Netta Loogatha

My Country - 2020

41cm diameter

Acrylic on round canvas

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447-20

447-20

$1,750.00

Netta Loogatha

Mijilda - 2020

41cm diameter

Acrylic on round canvas

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470-20

470-20

$1,750.00

Netta Loogatha

My Country - 2000

41cm diameter

Acrylic on round canvas

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584-21

584-21

$1,750.00

Netta Loogatha

My Country - 2021

40.5cm diameter

Acrylic on round canvas

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600-21

600-21

$1,750.00

Netta Loogatha

Bilmee - My Country - 2021

40 cm diameter

Acrylic on round canvas

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608-21

608-21

$1,750.00

Netta Loogatha

My Country - 2021

40.5 cm diameter

Acrylic on round canvas

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364-21

364-21

$1,000.00

Netta Loogatha

My Country Bilmee - 2021

40.5 cm diameter

Acrylic on round canvas

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10519-17

10519-17

$6,250.00

Netta Loogatha

My Country, 2017

91 x 121 cm

Acrylic on canvas

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465-21

465-21

$2,000.00

Netta Loogatha

Rukathi - Oak Tree Point, 2021

40.6 x 30.5 cm

Acrylic on canvas board

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