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Myra Cook
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Myra Cook is a Pitjantjatjara woman, who was born in 1932 and grew up in the
Docker River region and shares with Irrunytju artists, most of whom are of the
Pitjantjatjara language group, a pride in their ancestral history and land which ex
expands across from the edge of the Western Australian desert to the north-west
corner of South Australia and to the South West corner of the Northern Territory. Her
semi-nomadic lifestyle, like that of the people of Irrunytju, means she often travels
and enjoys close relationships with other groups, such as the Ngaanyatjarra and
Spinifex communities. Highly social gatherings, they work, talk, dance, sing and
discuss sacred women’s business which is passed on from senior women to others.
The women’s stories include tales of childbirth, midwifery, ceremony, child-rearing
and even death.
Myra’s work is distinguished by a stunning orchestration of crystalline shaped blues,
greens, mauves, pinks and yellows, evoking the vibrant expression of rock opal,
familiar to the country of her growing up.
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