Wild flowers looking from above down as far as your eyes can see spread right across the wide open plains.
Name: Charlie Gilligan
Language: Gooniyandi
Community: Fitzroy Crossing
Biography:
Charlie was born in Fitzroy Crossing, in the old hospital on the river side of town. He was brought back to Gogo Station, about 15km outside of town and raised by his parents there with his brother and sister. Charlie started painting in school.
Lake and Sandhills This work depicts a warla (lake) within the artists’ ngurra (home Country, camp), typically represented with circular forms. As a reliable source of water in the often harsh and arid Martu lands, Read more…
Mungili Rock Holes “Mungili rock hole. Big rock hole, big Country. I never see that place. My mother born [there], her and her grandmother walk through there, they tell me story [for that place]. Mother Read more…
Kumpupirntily (Kumpupintily, Lake Disappointment) “Clouds here. It’s dry, no water, but still flowers grow.” – Helen Dale Samson Kumpupirntily (Kumpupintily, Lake Disappointment) is a stark, flat and unforgiving expanse of blinding salt lake surrounded by sand Read more…