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Gurlibil – turtle earrings designed by Yawuru artist Amanda Rose Lee.
Amanda likes to depict gurlibil laying their jimbu (eggs) which they do in Mangala Season, around December-March.
Handcrafted from mirror teal blue acrylic, and a dark blue organic circle and stainless-steel, nickel free post.
Approx. 5.5cm in length.
Shields were used as modesty shields for women, normally worn around the shoulders or around the waist.
All Aboriginal people originate from a spiritual source, fixed in a particular place in their land or the sea. These ‘Spiritual Reservoirs’ are often in the form of special waterholes made by Wangarr (Creative Beings), long ago close to the beginning of time. These creator beings moved across the country side, shaping the land and implanting in each tract of country, the spiritual life force for the people who were to own it. These Creative Spirits took many forms. When they gave the land to each group they also gave songs, dances, ceremony, the associated laws and language. The Creation story for Ganalbingu people took place near the middle section of the Glyde River where it becomes the Goyder River. Their land, Ngaliyindi, sits astride the Arafura Swamp in Central Arnhem Land. In this painting, the artist has depicted freshwater totems from the Swamp. These include catfish (ginginy), crocodile (baru), file snake (bapi), Darwin prawns (dakawa), Barramundi (ratjuk), water lilies (yalman) and bubbles in the water.
The community of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint ‘altyerr’ dreaming stories, the artists paint their country where those stories sit.
Alec was born at McDonald Downs Station. He grew up there with his family living traditionally on the land. Alec did not attend school, he moved between different communities with his family.
Knowing your country is an important part of living in a remote community like Ampilatwatja. Knowing when and where to go hunting and gathering, knowing where there is ‘soakage’ (where you can dig for water), travelling with family for ceremonies, and maintaining a connection with the land.
“This is my country, my view of country.”
Gapu is a series of limited edition fine prints created in a long standing a collaboration between Basil Hall Editions and Beswick artists. Gapu Series XI uses, for the first time, the Collograph technique and features 23 prints by 14 senior and emerging artists from Beswick. Gapu (Water) features life and cultural practice around the water ways of both Beswick and the ancestral homelands of the artists, from hairy yams to woven string bags, sitting ducks on the billabong to fish hiding in the lily roots, ceremonial dilly bags to the mythical Mimis that share country.
Editions are limited to 30 prints, printed on Hahnemuhle paper.
The layers of Colleen’s paintings are as detailed and complex as the stories she paints.
Colleen’s painting represents a ceremony that is performed by the women in the community. It involves dance, signing and painting the body in ochre, to celebrate their country and their understanding of bush medicine.
The use of the bush medicine and the edible seeds that come in an assortment of colours, are depicted in many of Colleen’s paintings.
This painting is about singing to country, singing the bush medicine in to existence, maintaining it and where to find it.
The community of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint ‘altyerr’ dreaming stories, the artists paint their country where those stories sit.
This painting shows the layered landscape of Alyawarr, Central Australia. Knowing your country is an important part of living in a remote community like Ampilatwatja. Knowing when and where to go hunting and gathering, knowing where there is ‘soakage’ (where you can dig for water), travelling with family for ceremonies, and maintaining a connection with the land.
“This is my country, my view of country.”
JB paints stories from his Dhuwa homeland in northeast Arnhem Land. Stories are passed on either paternally or maternally, and JB would have learnt these stories from his ancestors. The cross-hatching style is a traditional painting style of this area and can represent elements such as water, air and wind.
JB’s paintings often feature totemic animals of the fresh waters of north east Arnhem Land.