MIMILI MAKU
The community of Mimili is located within the red granite boulders of the Everard Ranges nearly 500 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs. The art centre takes its name from the maku or witchetty found in the roots of the witchetty bush (acacia kempeana). The Maku Tjukurpa (witchetty grub songline) is a significant songline for this area. As with other art centres, the community’s Aboriginal-owned arts business has grown in an old disused building, in this case a stone and cement homestead that actually housed some of the current artists when they were children. Mimili Maku Arts involves men and women, young people and old people from the community and four surrounding homelands of Perentie Bore, Wanmara, Blue Hills and Sandy’s Bore.
The Principal medium used in the centre is acrylic paint on linen or canvas. Artists also weave Spinifex baskets (tjanpi), and carve wooden artefacts (punu). Mimili Maku Arts started in 2004 and incorporated in 2010.
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