This is Antarrengeny Country, sandhill country, my fathers country.
After rain the sandhills are abundant with flowers, grasses and bush medicine plants.
This painting depicts the landscape filled with arrwelth (Parakeelya flowers), alekw (Acacia plants) and aywert (spinifex grass).
Yvonne has painted her favourite hunting country after rain. “This is when the storm ants come and make the goannas nice and fat, the ground is soft for digging honey ants and it’s when the bush foods and grasses come up and grow strong. The country is normally bare with small stones and rocks everywhere, but after rain, everything comes alive.”
Yvonne is a tremendous hunter, she is skilled in reading tracks and reading the land. Painting hunting country is important and special to her.
The community of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint ‘altyerr’(dreaming stories). The artists paint their country where those stories sit.
The old school house at Cummeragunja. So many of our old people went to school there and my great-great-grandfather Grandpa Shadrach taught there as well
Growth
Good mode to make some baskets today, it was windy outside so i started with the blue for the saltwater, yellow is for the bright sun and red for the people.
Art Centre notes:
The basket / bag is made of natural raffia / cotton / jute / sea chord/ shells.
It is made using a traditional ‘one twist’ method. It has a thin / thick plaited strap. It has long tassels above/or below.
The dyes are commercial and colour fast.
Size of bowl: 18 x 17cm
Good mode to make some baskets today, it was windy outside so i started with the blue for the saltwater, yellow is for the bright sun and red for the people.
Art Centre notes:
The basket / bag is made of natural raffia / cotton / jute / sea chord.
It is made using a traditional ‘one twist’ method. It has a thin / thick plaited strap. It has long tassels above/or below.
The dyes are commercial and colour fast.
Size of bowl: 20 x 18cm
Good mode to make some baskets today, it was windy outside so i started with the blue for the saltwater, yellow is for the bright sun and red for the people.
Art Centre notes:
The basket / bag is made of natural raffia / cotton / jute / sea chord/ shells.
It is made using a traditional ‘one twist’ method. It has a thin / thick plaited strap. It has long tassels above/or below.
The dyes are commercial and colour fast.
Size of bowl: 20 x 15cm
Good mode to make some baskets today, it was windy outside so i started with the blue for the saltwater, yellow is for the bright sun and red for the people.
Art Centre notes:
The basket / bag is made of natural raffia / cotton / jute / sea chord. seeds.
It is made using a traditional ‘one twist’ method. It has a thin / thick plaited strap. It has long tassels above/or below.
The dyes are commercial and colour fast.
Size of bowl: 20 x 18cm
Walking to the point (fishing spot) to look for thickie shells under big or small rocks find the bubbles in the sand, little holes everywhere thats where we dig for thickie shells to use as bait for fishing.
Art Centre notes:
The basket / bag is made of natural raffia / cotton / jute / sea chord/ shells.
It is made using a traditional ‘one twist’ method. It has a thin / thick plaited strap. It has long tassels above/or below.
The dyes are commercial and colour fast.
Size of bowl: 22 x 27cm
The Perentie man walked all the way from Warburton, Western Australia to Wattaru in South Australia to meet and marry his promised wife the Echidna woman. After they were married they started to head back to the man’s country in the west with the echidna woman walking at a distance from her husband. Even though they were married at every camp the Echidna woman sat with her legs crossed and slept away from her new husband on the other side of the camp fire.
When they reached the sand hill country south of Winboll the husband raped the echidna woman on a rock in the middle of a sand dune and inflicted a deep wound from which she bled profusely. Afterwards the man continued walking until reaching the limestone country where he looked back expecting to see his wife, but she had bled to death at the rock. From then on the rock stained the sand red with her blood.
Janet Forbes said they can’t find that rock and the rock hole at the bottom anymore. She thinks it has been covered in sand or vegetation.