Born 1959 at Angus DownsLanguage group: PitjantjtjaraCountry: Irrunytju - Wingelina Jorna Newberry is a Pitjantjatjara artist, born around 1959 in Angus Downs. She currently splits her time between Alice Springs, where her family lives, and Warakurna - choosing to live between modern culture and the traditional one of her Indigenous heritage. When Jorna is in her lands, she often goes with other women in the community to the bush for sacred ceremonies and to pass on the knowledge of her heritage to her two daughters. When she goes camping, she hunts for kangaroo and goanna and collects bush tucker such as honey ants, witchetty grubs and berries. Jorna began painting in mid-1990's at Warakurna and later she joined the lrrunytju arts center and started painting for this group. In recent years, Jorna worked closely with her uncle, renowned painter Tommy Watson. She follows his instruction to favor abstraction as a stylistic mode to ensure secrecy of important cultural matters, rather than taking the more figurative approach of the Papunya Tula artists. She says "Tommy has had a big influence on me. He teaches me to be respectful in the way I paint". Waru Tjukurrpa (Fire Dreaming) relates to her mother's country at Utantja, a large stretch of sacred ceremonial land that has hilly country and a large rock hole where many people come from time to time to paint up, dance and do ceremony. It is a country filled with kangaroos, camels, rock wallabies and birds. They burn off country to regenerate for next year and to get all the lizards and other bush tucker out of the long grass. This painting depicts this, the flames jumping up into the sky and the embers that float off the fire. The undergrowth is where all the lizards and small animals live.