This work depicts the remarkably diverse flora found through Martu Country. These plants are not only vital as significant food sources, but also celebrated for their aesthetic splendour. In the context of the often harsh and arid environments in which desert flowers bloom, their vibrancy, delicacy, and variation become even more spectacular.
Name: Natasha Surprise
Language: Manjilyjarra
Community: Punmu
Biography:
“Hi, my name is Natasha and I went to Rawa [school in Punmu]. I like to paint waterholes.”
– Natasha Surprise
Emerging artist Natasha Surprise began painting with Martumili Artists in 2022. Her work focuses on the distinctive plant life, geographical features, and waterholes of her ancestral Country—especially Wirnpa in the Percival Lakes region, Kunawarritji, and Punmu. Through her painting, Natasha expresses a strong connection to her desert homelands and family histories.
Untitled “When Martu paint, it’s like a map. Martu draw story on the ground and on the canvas, and all the circle and line there are the hunting areas and different waters and tracks where Read more…
Untitled Martumili Artists work with over three hundred artists from remote Martu Aboriginal communities, including Punmu, Parnngurr, Kunawarritji, Jigalong, Irrungadji (Nullagine), and Warralong, as well as from the Parnpajinya (Newman) gallery and studio spaces. Known Read more…
Tuwa (sandhills) in Puntawarri “I do tuwa (sandhill) in my own style because that’s our Country. That’s a sandhill, that’s the Dreaming- the Jukurrpa. That’s our culture. They stay there and we go through the Read more…