Mabel Juli

Mabel Juli (born c.1931) is a contemporary artist from the East Kimberley in Western Australia.

[1] Juli commenced painting in the 1980s after observing and being encouraged by artists Rover Thomas and Queenie McKenzie.

She is best known for her striking black and white paintings of Garnkiny doo Wardel (Moon and Star)[3] based on the Ngarranggarni story passed down from her parents, but focussing on Ngarranggarniny which is when the Dreaming ancestors laid down and became the landscape of the East Kimberley in Western Australia.

[4][5][6] An innovator, she also extended the range of use of traditional colours of the Gija palette to include pink, purple and green.

[7] Juli continues to work at the Warmun Art Centre.