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Cars abandoned at Mimili’s local dump.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n Cars abandoned at Mimili’s local dump.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n
From above, the graveyard of rusted wrecks looks like an artwork in itself, a literal portrayal perhaps of a long journey’s end.<\/p>\n
On the ground, however, artist Shane Dodd sees only inspiration as he walks between the stacks of decaying cars looking for his next canvas.<\/p>\n
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Shane Dodd is a contemporary artist living in Mimili.(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n
For generations, knowledge vital for survival in the remote South Australian desert has been passed down through story, art, ceremony and song.<\/p>\n
Now, artists are recording this wisdom in new ways, and these forgotten vehicles are being given another chance to shine.<\/p>\n
Shane Dodd is quiet as he inspects the bonnets and petrol caps of one abandoned car after another.<\/p>\n
He’s looking for parts he can repurpose and breathe new life into.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of cars from surrounding communities have ended up here, in the dump at Mimili, one of the main communities in the A\u1e49angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the remote north-west of South Australia.<\/p>\n
Mr Dodd is one of several artists who use scrap metal from these vehicles in their artwork.<\/p>\n
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Artist Shane Dodd searches the car wrecks for inspiration.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)![\"Yellow](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/96753eda20b10d4a16e93ff83b89de19.jpeg\")
Rusted-out cars create new vehicles for creativity.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)![\"Front](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bc213705fc3a12d9fe13bd5bf37b0275.jpeg\")
Bright colours of cars left behind mix with the rusted cars around them.(ABC News: Che Chorley)![\"Piles](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7046605970e5d4f4150086c60429b967.jpeg\")
Hundreds of car wrecks end up in the Mimili dump.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n
The metal from hub caps, doors, chassis, bonnets and other car parts is melted, painted and sandblasted, before stories about Country are featured on the reclaimed pieces.<\/p>\n
“I make from my grandmother’s Country about waterholes. This one here, five waterholes,” Mr Dodd says, as he points to one of his painted fuel caps.<\/p>\n
He explains how these skeletal wrecks once enabled his generation to more easily connect with culturally important sites \u2014 locations that, in the past, had taken days to reach on foot.<\/p>\n
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This petrol cap tells the story of people walking to big and little waterholes.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)![\"Painted](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/91e2520c0ca33ea572bea3c18a6385f8.jpeg\")
Shane Dodd is one of the wati, or men, creating art from car parts.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)![\"Inside](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/9579fa4dba5e449337927dd9e7de99be.jpeg\")
A car abandoned in the dump in Mimili.(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n
“All the Aboriginal people always go to waterholes and drink. In the bush, they used to walk \u2014 no car, no clothes,” he says.<\/p>\n
Mr Dodd grew up in Mimili, in the 103,000-square-kilometre APY Lands, which abuts the borders of the Northern Territory and Western Australia.<\/p>\n
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About 300 people live in Mimili.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n
The land was returned to the Traditional Owners more than 40 years ago.<\/p>\n
Today, to protect the way of life<\/a> and culture here, visitors can only travel to the region with permission.<\/p>\n And in this rich, red landscape, artists in Mimili continue to care for Country by recording in sculpture, painting and music myriad songlines and stories that have been passed down through generations.<\/p>\n Ancient wisdom never gets old Inside the Mimili Maku Arts studio, the smell of acrylic paint permeates the space.<\/p>\n Free-flowing splatters of reds, blues, greens and yellows hit every surface.<\/p>\n This creative hub is at the centre of the small community of about 300 people, and provides more than just respite from the blazing sun.<\/p>\n It’s a place of storytelling and preservation of culture.<\/p>\n Sitting on the speckled floor, Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin uses a stick, just as her ancestors did, to add the final colour to a large canvas.<\/p>\n She is painting the rock holes at Antara, a vast and culturally important site near Mimili.<\/p>\n Ms Goodwin explains that beyond the bright colours and striking beauty of the designs, her canvases impart crucial knowledge for the next generation.<\/p>\n “It contains Law, this one,” she says in Pitjantjatjara about the painting behind her.<\/p>\n “Children have been dancing this ceremony \u2026 climbing up the rocks at Antara. We clean the three rock holes and perform the ceremony.” Mimili sits on what was once the site of the Everard Park Cattle Station, where Ms Goodwin worked as a young girl, separated from her family and culture.<\/p>\n “These days I’m happy it’s Mimili Community, and it belongs to Aboriginal people,” she says.<\/p>\n Now in her 70s, the former preschool teacher uses her artwork to share lore and wisdom that cannot be found in any books.<\/p>\n This knowledge, passed on from her ancestors, encompasses spiritual belief, Law and creation stories \u2014 known as Tjukurpa.<\/p>\n “The children will see it and realise, ‘Oh, I see, this is the belief system my grandmother has recorded’,” she says.<\/p>\n Ms Goodwin begins to sing the witchetty grub, or maku, songline \u2014 the Maku Tjukurpa, which is an important ancestral story for those who live in Mimili.<\/p>\n Loading…<\/p>\n Songlines have been described as pathways that link landmarks and give meaning to important places<\/a>.<\/p>\n Artist Pauline Wangin says the waterholes where the maku are found are detailed in the artists’ paintings.<\/p>\n This is crucial information as the grubs \u2014 the white wood-eating larvae of several moths \u2014 are a dietary staple in Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n “We saw all these rock holes as we were growing up,” Ms Wangin says.<\/p>\n “Our parents would take us out into the bush to see them, and they would teach us bushcraft, about bush foods, show us the rock holes.”<\/p>\n Ms Wangin smiles as she recalls falling asleep to her parents’ “wonderful stories” as a child.<\/p>\n “They \u2026 showed us the water sources, explaining how a particular water place is related to the witchetty grub,” she says.<\/p>\n Today, Ms Wangin takes children to rock holes in an area called Patalpi, or Victory Well.<\/p>\n Here, they perform ceremony, or inma, as she imparts the knowledge she learned from her parents.<\/p>\n “When we look after the rock holes associated with witchetty grubs, the grub numbers increase,” she says.<\/p>\n “After the rain, we go and, in the bush, we see lots of grubs, and we dig for them.”<\/p>\n Some of the paintings are maps, while others recount important stories.<\/p>\n All of them are preserving a culture and knowledge dating back more than 65,000 years, to be carried forward by the children of tomorrow.<\/p>\n Knowledge guides the next generation\u00a0<\/p>\n While the artworks created in Mimili are destined for exhibitions around the world, the artists say their motivation is closer to home.<\/p>\n Ms Goodwin, the director of the studio, encourages Mimili’s creatives to share their stories because knowledge is not held by just one person, it is held collectively by the entire community.<\/p>\n When asked why she is sharing these stories with the ABC, Ms Goodwin says:<\/p>\n “So our way of thinking can be documented for perpetuity.<\/p>\n “It’s for men, for women, for everyone. For young fellas to learn and dance, for young women, girls to dance, to carry out our culture accurately.”<\/p>\n With her loyal dog, Sarah, by her side, Ms Wangin says it is up to her generation to ensure the lessons learned from older relatives who have since passed, live on.<\/p>\n And so she paints.<\/p>\n “These knowledge systems, we’re practising them and passing them on to the generations who come after us,” she says.<\/p>\n “They will grow up and observe our Law and bush skills.”<\/p>\n Betty Mula also agrees to share her story.<\/p>\n She is originally from Imanpa in the Northern Territory, and moved to Mimili for marriage.<\/p>\n The artist explains that she is one of seven sisters, so she often paints the Seven Sisters songline, which traverses land and night sky across the continent.<\/p>\n Her latest work, she says, depicts the vital sustenance required to sustain life here.<\/p>\n “Trees, food, bush tucker and rock holes and traditional shelters for people,” she says, gesturing at the painting.<\/p>\n ‘We encourage one another’<\/p>\n Radio host, musician and artist Desmond Woodforde stands by his painting of the Milky Way, explaining that it tells the story of the night sky and how celestial entities guided his ancestors.<\/p>\n “These stories identify who we are \u2026 because if this wasn’t here, I would be lost,” he says.<\/p>\n Loading…<\/p>\n Mr Woodforde walks over to a collection of metal sculptures with symbols etched into them and explains how they were created from old car parts.<\/p>\n The artists drew symbols in the sand to create a mould before pouring in the molten metal.<\/p>\n “The sky people created this, the extraterrestrial emu was up there, so we know the origins of the beings that came and taught us how to live and share everything,” he says.<\/p>\n “The star was his [the moon’s] wife. So they were close to one another.”<\/p>\n Acclaimed artist Robert Fielding, who at the time of the ABC’s visit was overseas on an arts residency, has been leading the project to reclaim old cars and use them for sculptures.\u00a0<\/p>\n Mr Fielding was awarded a Jeffrey Smart Commission and will exhibit his works at the Samstag Museum of Art in Adelaide in October.<\/p>\n Mr Fielding describes the project as “custodial art-making, beginning with Country, culture and community before the gallery context”.<\/p>\n “Mutuka, the car wrecks scattered across our land, are more than just scrap. They’re symbols of survival, of resistance, of movement across Country,” he says.<\/p>\n “This car becomes a symbol of who we are and who we’re becoming. It stands for our living culture, moving forward, side by side, Tjungu.<\/p>\n “We’re building more than sculptures, we’re building pathways.”<\/p>\n Shane Dodd says the Mimili men \u2014 the wati \u2014 gather regularly to share stories, connect and create.<\/p>\n He feels supported when he works alongside other men from his community.<\/p>\n “It feels really good. Working at the art centre with all the men makes me sometimes happy, but when I’m working by myself \u2014 not happy,” Mr Dodd says.<\/p>\n Mr Woodforde agrees that this time together is important.<\/p>\n “We sit around and talk story, and they do painting and we share it,” he says.<\/p>\n “We encourage one another, keeping us stronger.”<\/p>\n As the sun sets on another scorching day, Mr Woodforde wants to show us a place on the outskirts of the Mimili community.<\/p>\n We follow his small hatchback as it swerves on the sandy road. To everyone’s relief, it doesn’t get bogged.<\/p>\n He lugs his guitar to the top of the nearby emu egg formation, known as Atutja, to sing to Country. This is where his uncle was born, he explains.<\/p>\n “This is our Country here, it belongs to our family \u2026 all of it around this side of the hill, and it goes all the way back,” he says.<\/p>\n “They wanted me to look after it and take care of it.”<\/p>\n This is Yankunytjatjara Country, but people have come from other areas to live here, and Mr Woodforde says it is “all connected”.<\/p>\n He explains that the stories traverse land and sky.<\/p>\n “Country is a story. Country is where the story can be told,” he says.<\/p>\n He shares a new song about the 1953 British nuclear tests at Emu Field, further south on The Lands, which forced families to relocate to other areas, including Mimili.<\/p>\n Loading…<\/p>\n “We abandoned that place because of plutonium, couldn’t walk back on those tracks, and the rock holes were irradiated,” he says.<\/p>\n “Many of my family were talking about it, and they said, ‘One of your uncles and one of your grandmothers, you know, they were traumatised because of this great, great destruction of this atomic nuclear bomb’.”<\/p>\n Mr Woodforde stares out over the bushes as the vast landscape is illuminated in golden-hour sunlight.<\/p>\n “This is where it makes sense,” he says. “The spirit, the heart is open.”<\/p>\n Mr Woodforde says he feels a sense of peace in sharing the many layers and history of this place using the various methods available to him.<\/p>\n “I hope that the next generation will come in and \u2026 they can take over one day and share the same stories.”<\/p>\n Credits:Reporting: Stephanie Boltje<\/a>Photography and video: Che Chorley<\/a> and Mimili Maku Arts, unless otherwise specifiedEditor and digital production: Rachel Kelly<\/a>Video editor: Anthony Scully<\/a>Graphics: Sharon Gordon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cars abandoned at Mimili’s local dump.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley) From above, the graveyard of rusted wrecks looks like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[149479,149478,149473,442,498,499,500,501,156,91111,149472,149471,149476,149477,111,139,69,149475,149474],"class_list":{"0":"post-260281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-aangu-pitjantjatjara-yankunytjara-apy","9":"tag-apy-arts-collective","10":"tag-apy-lands","11":"tag-arts","12":"tag-arts-and-design","13":"tag-artsanddesign","14":"tag-artsdesign","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-indigenous-art","18":"tag-mimili","19":"tag-mimili-arts","20":"tag-mimili-maku-arts","21":"tag-mimili-maku-arts-studio","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-shane-dodd","26":"tag-tuppy-goodwin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2c1d69edbe225d3d56cd1cad14295363.jpeg\")
This paint-speckled surface reveals how busy the Mimili Maku Arts studio is.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n![\"Various](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cb154f4a6921fd5b5948dc031d2f399f.jpeg\")
Bright colours are splattered across every surface at the Mimili Maku Arts studio.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n![\"Aboriginal](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dcb02f946d736086b9d268dfd51edf44.jpeg\")
Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin wants to ensure the knowledge entrusted to her is passed on.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a976cd2ad91983b63d061c09116578d3.jpeg\")
Like the women before her, Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin paints with a stick.(ABC News: Stephanie Boltje)![\"Tuppy](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4b46215f8a89b59c5a2e71a189c775d4.jpeg\")
Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin’s latest artwork is destined for an exhibition overseas.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/026cc5cc2f6734ff3b2ae43eff76d7dd.jpeg\")
Pauline Wangin shares the stories passed on to her by her family.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n![\"Witchetty](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/715f74219e304f4208ec76a1dfdd3fbd.jpeg\")
Maku are a food source in many Indigenous communities.\u00a0(ABC News: Xavier Martin)![\"Paintings](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/9ad807ed47a26e7ba2b3db6afa5037b7.jpeg\")
Maku are important to the people of Mimili.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/19af8d193149b6124f09a2763f92e506.jpeg\")
Mimili is one of the communities in the APY Lands with a strong arts scene.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/976532b22390646fe1a7c337fe573ddb.jpeg\")
Artists ensure age-old knowledge is not forgotten by the new generation.(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/f3a9526cde8059700317a5a67aacb482.jpeg\")
Pauline Wangin’s dog is the only one allowed inside the Mimili arts studio.(ABC News: Stephanie Boltje)![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/19b4a6c947dd804a05a260d2786df96a.jpeg\")
Pauline Wangin is one of the artists in Mimili.(ABC News: Che Chorley)![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/11a5c94b89539ee054b673bfe6e1daf0.jpeg\")
Acrylic paint is a popular choice among the Mimili artists.(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/46bf63023d4ac7582095c56cf68f6d68.jpeg\")
Betty Mula often paints the Seven Sisters songline.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)![\"An](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c7bdd451b8e1f65c348d85332cc95e99.jpeg\")
Umatji Tjapalyi says she is following in her mother’s footsteps by painting.(ABC News: Che Chorley)![\"An](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1eb0dcc81880372e4726ebaf7333bbe2.jpeg\")
Umatji Tjapalyi’s artwork tells stories passed down by her ancestors.(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n![\"Painting](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d332f72c8677ec3186984d9eeb18cae2.jpeg\")
Betty Mula’s painting Punu Tjuta (many trees).\u00a0(Supplied: Mimili Maku Arts)<\/p>\n![\"Molten](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4b4bbb39abc74549e4e122c4b8cd8cc2.jpeg\")
Robert Fielding’s Melting Pot exhibition is a collaboration with Canberra Glassworks, Sculpture Co., and Fundere Fine Art Foundry.(Supplied: Mimili Maku Arts)![\"Numerous,](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/747ae8e3e935002a218b0de23803e517.jpeg\")
Sculptures made from molten car parts reveal knowledge.(ABC News: Che Chorley)![\"Silvery](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3eae480798022b46379ca26f54953644.jpeg\")
Artists such as Desmond Woodforde create sand moulds of meaningful symbols in which to pour the molten metal.\u00a0(Supplied: Mimili Maku Arts)![\"Metal](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8a845feebb9cdd1d0b4599f6f935f5e2.jpeg\")
The repurposed car parts are mainly used to create art by the community’s men, or wati. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0(Supplied: Mimili Maku Arts)<\/p>\n![\"An](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3c3dcc86c88bac7a58d699ec437beb37.jpeg\")
Robert Fielding says car wrecks strewn across the landscape are symbols of survival.(Supplied: Mimili Maku Arts)![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c45f733b8000b87555e99e8149679d6d.jpeg\")
Cars are left to rust in the elements.(ABC News: Che Chorley)![\"An](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6e32573ba33f0bf147674427de10c1ea.jpeg\")
Robert Fielding says the rusting wrecks still have stories to tell.(Supplied: Mimili Maku Arts)<\/p>\n![\"Artist](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d0a91b532456866b6842d3b1802ad156.jpeg\")
Shane Dodd says working alongside other creative men in Mimili is uplifting.(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7e7f68bb9098b8506c4e0b7c23eb3b38.jpeg\")
Roads in the APY Lands are obvious, but the songlines that snake through this land are not always visible.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6f5c767442104837302f02c853d5b7d2.jpeg\")
Desmond Woodforde has returned to his homeland to play a song close to his heart.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7095d6eff9bfdaa9fe52ce4ae6e88dad.jpeg\")
Desmond Woodforde is a radio host and musician.(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n![\"Vast](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a8de2d474e4af94babffc267eb684b2d.jpeg\")
The sun sets over the APY Lands.(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n