LORNA LINMURRA

Lorna was born in Port Hedland In more recent years she moved to Warralong Community with her family, where she remains today Warralong community is located 120 kilometres south east of Port Hedland and 50 kilometres north of Marble Bar in the Pilbara The community lies between the Shaw and De Grey Rivers

This is Lorna’s Country her ‘ ngurra ’ Portrayed in this work are features of Lorna’s ngurra, such as the dominant permanent red tali (sandhills) warta (trees, vegetation), and the individually named water sources she and her family camped at

I was born in Hedland hospital. I grew up, Marble Bar area , we were staying there with nomad people, I was going to school. Nomad people would take us everywhere. We then went to Roebourne , everywhere we go. I started working making tins for lollies , for a few years I did. We didn’t know anything [then], we were young people.