March 2026

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Jessie Ngwarraye Ross – Atyenh Amper (My Country)

Jessie’s landscapes beautifully communicate the rich knowledge she possesses of medicinal plants and country, the heart of her culture.
Jessie’s has painted her country, Ampilatwatja. The brightly coloured flowers and small bushes are bush medicine and are still used within the community.


Jessie’s predominant theme in her paintings is ‘strong bush medicine’, demonstrating a deep connection to her country. Her work pays homage to the significance and use of traditional bush medicine, allowing an insight into her community. Yet underneath the iridescent surface, there is an underlying sense that there is more to this landscape than meets the eye. In keeping with the religious laws, Jessie reveals only a small amount of knowledge to the uninitiated.

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

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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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Lilly Kemarre Morton – Antarrengeny, My Country

Lilly has painted her country, Antarrengeny. The brightly coloured flowers and small bushes are bush medicine and are still used within the community.

Lilly’s landscapes beautifully communicate the rich knowledge she possesses of both medicinal plants and country, the heart of her culture.

As a young girl, Lilly lived traditionally off of the land with her family and Alyawarr people. In Lilly’s lifetime, she has experienced and borne witness to the irreversible changes of country and way of life, that were previously unchanged for thousands of years.

She is a kind and gentle elder of the community and often tells stories of how life used to be, in Alywarre, her language, to her family and friends. These stories are also a great inspiration for many of the artists within the community.

Lilly is passionate about nature, especially her country and the plants that grow on it, she speaks in launguage and is keen to explain the various bush medicines which she depicts in her paintings.

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

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When I was a boy, traveling the Tanami with my dad

This work tells the story of when Adrian’s father drove the truck from the cattle station where they lived on Yalpiranku country (near Yuendumu) to Alice Springs, to pick up supplies. This included food like powered milk, sugar, tea and flour. They would take these supplies back to the station camp to share with family. Sometimes his dad would take Adrian, his sister and his mum on the trip. They sat up the front and as they traveled along the dirt road his parents would tell stories. 

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Milky Way

The old people talk about the Milky Way, there’s different stories, Mayalarri Seven Sisters and the Jarnkurna emu. In the Milky Way, you can see a Jarnkurna emu. When the Milky Way turns up in the cold season, it means it’s time for nesting and they lay their eggs.  The man Emu sits on the eggs and raise the chicks until they are independent and then he runs away from them.

There is a large petroglyph of the Jarnkurna Emu at the Murujuga, Burrup

Minkala, the Great Spirit, lifted the Mayalarri into the sparkling night sky. then came the Marrga, singing the Burndud  (sacred song). Their voices were so powerful that two of the Mayalarri were drawn down from the sky, into the sea near Murujuga. They were the Bunggaliyarra.

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Rockholes & Spinifex Narelle Holland

Here Narelle shows her Great Grand parents country and it’s beauty, featuring many Rockholes; Lilyirra, Ngatun, Walu, Multju, Karrpillia and Likarpullar.

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The Void VI

This took a very long time to come to me, seven months. I had let grief overtake me – we had so many family losses over that time, the exhibition stood still. Grief is not linear and at this time, I couldn’t work on anything. It ongoing and I didn’t want to go backwards.

When I introduced mum’s style of colour mixing into this piece, her oranges and reds and especially her magenta, combined with my copper, I began to heal.

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