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Selina Numina
Selina Numina is an Anmatyerre artist from Central Australia, born in 1961 at Stirling Station, near Tennant Creek. She comes from one of the most celebrated artistic families of the desert — the Numina Sisters — a group of six sisters (Sharon, Louise, Selina, Caroline, Jacinta and Lanita), all daughters of Barbara Pananka (Pananka Mbitjana), who passed down her deep cultural knowledge and the responsibility of women’s law.
Growing up, Selina learned painting, weaving and ceremonial body designs from her aunties and grandmothers, who taught her how stories are held in land — in the plants, the sand, the water sources, and the constellations. Her work often reflects the rhythms of bush medicine leaves, desert flowers, women’s ceremonies, and the knowledge passed through the hands of women over countless generations.
In the early 1990s Selina moved to Darwin, where she continues to live, paint and support her extended family. Her art practice is not just creative — it is cultural caretaking. Every stroke, pattern and layered movement carries memory, story, country and lineage.
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