These bush flowers grow seasonly in Alyawarr country, some of which are also used in bush medicine remedies.
My twin sister Lotoya and I have just started painting, our grandmother Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney has been teaching us, she tells us all about the bush Flowers and bush medicine.
The artists of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint altyerr (dreaming stories). The artists paint their country where those stories sit.
Name: Dakota Ngwarraye Petrick
Language: Alyawarre
Community: Ampilatwatja
Biography:
My twin sister Lotoya and I have just started painting, our grandmother Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney has been teaching us, she tells us all about the bush Flowers and bush medicine.
Daisy Kemarre Moss – My Mother’s Country Daisy has painted her Mother’s country, Kngwarraye country. Kngwarraye is one of the four main skin names of Ampilatwatja. Bush medicine, goanna and many other traditional bush foods Read more…
Edie Kemarre Holmes – Antarrengeny Edie depicts Antarrengeny when there has been no rain and the land shimmers like jewels. It is the open flat country, after a bushfire, when only the young grasses and Read more…
Lulu Pitjara Teece – My Fathers Seed Dreaming Before my father died, he told me and my sister, that if we ever painted, he wanted us to paint his dreaming. His dreaming is the seed Read more…