Cutting of the Road

Judith Chambers was born at Mitjika, a rockhole North of the Great Central Road near Wanarn community and has sadly passed away earlier this year. Her mother was the wellknown artist Carol Maanyatja Golding. Judith attended school at Warburton Mission with her sisters and completed senior schooling at Pink Lake High School in Esperance. Her family lived in the camp at Warburton for some time but moved to Docker River along with many other Yarnangu from the Eastern Ngaanyatjarra lands.

The Golding family were among the first people to move back to Warakurna in the mid 1970’s when the settlement was established. Warakurna is Judith’s grandmother’s traditional homeland. “It was motorcar time. Yarnangu were travelling back to Warakurna with the cars all loaded up.” In the early days of the Warakurna settlement Judith worked at the Women’s Centre dying fabric and sewing clothes and as a healthworker at the Warakurna clinic.

Judith was involved with Warakurna Artists since 2006 and served as Treasurer for Warakurna Artists Executive for many years. Judith was a talented multi-disciplinary artist known for her exquisitely detailed paintings, weaving and wooden artefact carving.