March 2025

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Wandjina, Ungud & Wali (cloud and rain spirit, totem & sea turtle)

The Wandjina spirits are highly respected by the Worrora, Ngarinyin and Wanumbul people who live at Mowanjum and up the Gibb River Road to Kalumburru in the Northwest Kimberley of Australia. The Wandjina gave the law and the culture to the people to abide by, these customs are still carried on today. The Ungud helped the Wandjina in creation of the land, creating rivers, lakes, gorges, waterholes & billabongs. The Wali are our food source that our ancestors have hunted for thousands of years.

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Mangarri (bush tucker)

These are the Mangarri (bush tucker) you will find in the bush at Winjin (wet season) time. You can see Goollingi (rain), Magabala (bush banana), Gulungi (black plum), Gooloy (green plum) and Boonjoorrool (Koonkaberry).

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Wandjina (cloud and rain spirits)

The Wandjina spirits are highly respected by the Worrora, Ngarinyin and Wunumbul people who live at Mowanjum and along the Gibb River Road to Kalumburru in the North West Kimberley region of Western Australia. Wandjina represents the laws of everything the surrounds us trees, rivers, rocks, bush fruit and animals, all creation. The Wandjinas give the law on how we have to treat and use these creations. These customs are carried on today.

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Selina Pula Teece – My Fathers Country

Anterrengeny is my Fathers country.  I paint the country that  come from, the beautiful landscapes and the many colours as they change during the season.

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Leanne Teece – Anterrengeny – My Father’s Country

Anterrengeny is my Father’s country. I paint the country that come from, the beautiful landscapes and the many colours as they change during the session.

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Bush Flowers

The artists of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint ‘altyerr’ dreaming stories. The artists paint their country where those stories sit.

These bush flowers grow seasonly in Alyawarr country, some of which are also used in bush medicine remedies.

“When I go out hunting, I like to see all the bush flowers that are flowering and then when I come back, I paint them.”

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Mat

Fibre Art is an ancient Aboriginal women’s craft that is still made today using the same techniques as their ancestors. Making fibre art is labour intensive and much care and fine needlework is required to ensure the finished object is both functional and beautiful. Fibre art from Ghunmarn Culture Centre includes dilly bags, floor mats, bush fans, woven creatures found in the landscape, plants such as yams (bush potato), baskets, place mats, and spirit figures such as mermaids and Mukuys. Natural pandanus fibre (Mukarra), is used to make much of the fibre art produced by the artists of Djilpin Arts. Women collect the pandanus by pulling from the top of the pandanus tree, then stripping and drying the leaves before they are dyed with natural bush colour collected from the Beswick surrounds.

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Corals depths

The Coral Reef is beautiful and pure, however no one truely knows how far it goes. As we look from above, we would often find ourselves pondering about the depth and size of the reef, seeing multiple types of coral overlapping or sometimes even spliced together, layer after layer going further down into the road of curiosity.

 

Art Centre notes:

Image size: 63 x 45cm

Paper size: 76 x 57cm

The artwork is a painting, Materials  :  acrylic, pastel,  and pen on BFK Rives paper

(100% cotton rag with strong archival properties). 

Artist: Nathan Dowling 

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Kalaya Tjukurpa – Emu Dreaming

This is Malpiya’s mother’s country near Kanpi on the APY Lands. Malpiya’s mother was born here at one of the waterholes. The kalaya (emu) is the creation being that formed this land. Malpiya’s design is a depiction of the kalaya walking around looking for mai (food) and water in the rockholes.

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