Selina Pula Teece – Arrweneng (Passion Flower)
Wild Passion fruit grow on our country Antarrengenye (unda ra ninya).
Bush Passion flower comes after the rain on our land. We gather these once the fruit is ready.
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Gunderson Kemarre Lewis – Great Grandmothers Country
I paint my Great Grandmothers country around Canteen Creek. Long time ago she hunted around this soakage in this country. When I paint, I paint that country, the soakage the bushflowers the sandhills and the distant mountains. I hunt this country now.
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Denise Ngwarraye Bonney – Bush Melon
On my grandmothers and grandfathers country after the rain I remember the smell of bush melons. I know that they are sweet and ready to eat at this time. They grow along the ground, I would lift the vine up and find all the yellow fruit.
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Colleen Ngwarraye Morton – Altywart
When I was a little girl I would go and collect the seed from the altywart grass with my grandmothers. They would teach us how to hang on to the tree and grind the seeds with our feet. We would carry the seed in our coolamon back to the camp, then make damper cook it on the fire and eat with our families.
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Woven Mat
Traditionally, Nganiyal (conical mats) were used as an insect screen when erected, and as a sitting mat when folded. They are used in Ceremony as well as a functional item.
Nowadays, artists weave many different shapes including flat, round and oblong.
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Maisie Petyarre Bundey – Bush Tucker
Maisie paints the bush tucker found in her country, the area that surrounds Boundary Bore in the Utopia homelands. She paints bush plums, bush bananas, bush potatoes and bush medicine plants. The main motif which recurs often in Maisie artworks is a full coolamon. When she paints she always speaks of gathering and hunting on her country ‘long way from here, long time ago’, filling up coolamons with ‘bush potato, bush banana, goanna and porcupine.’ Maisie always says her family are ‘happy ones, healthy ones.’
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Kathleen Nanima Rambler – Mulangke Aherne (beautiful land)
My country. When I go hunting out bush, as we drive along the road towards the hill you can see the beautiful land and the flowers blooming on the side of the road, and near the hills, even the beautiful gum trees. It makes me proud
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Kathleen Nanima Rambler – Mulangke Aherne (beautiful land)
My country. When I go hunting out bush, as we drive along the road towards the hill you can see the beautiful land and the flowers blooming on the side of the road, and near the hills, even the beautiful gum trees. It makes me proud
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Sevania Kemarre Bonney – Great Grandmothers Country
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My great Grandmothers Country is where we go hunting. We hunt goanna and bush turkey. We swim in the river. We look for bush banana, bush potato and wild oranges. I am inspired by the beautiful wild flowers that grow there. Being on my Great grandmothers country makes me happy and content.
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Sevania Kemarre Bonney – Great Grandmothers Country
Shadowland
My great Grandmothers Country is where we go hunting. We hunt goanna and bush turkey. We swim in the river. We look for bush banana, bush potato and wild oranges. I am inspired by the beautiful wild flowers that grow there. Being on my Great grandmothers country makes me happy and content.