Ernabella Arts Inc.
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Ngayuku Walka / My Design Walka means design or pattern. Artists use this title to describe artworks that are pattern based rather than descriptive or telling a story.
Ernabella Arts Inc.
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Mantarur That’s a good place. Lots of sand dunes. Janice (Stanley) and my great-grandfather’s Country, next to Uluru. When the big rain come they got Rainbow Snake.
Bula'bula Arts
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Bathi (Pandanus Basket) Yolŋu weavers of Arnhem Land create utilitarian, ceremonial, and decorative pieces using naturally sourced materials. This Bathi (Pandanus Basket) is made from young Pandanus spiralis leaves, harvested with a wooden hook, stripped of prickles, and dried to create strong, resilient fibres. These fibres are then twisted, coiled, Read more…
Artists of Ampilatwatja
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Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney – After the Bushfire This is the soakage (place to dig to find water) after the bushfire, made by a lightning strike. It burnt the grass down, then the rain came and the grass grows sweet and new. The kangaroos come out for the new grass, so Read more…
Artists of Ampilatwatja
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Maisie Petyarre Bundey – Bush Tucker Maisie paints the bush tucker found in her country, the area that surrounds Boundary Bore in the Utopia homelands. She paints bush plums, bush bananas, bush potatoes and bush medicine plants. The main motif which recurs often in Maisie artworks is a full coolamon. Read more…
Artists of Ampilatwatja
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Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney – Bush Tobacco Bush tobacco flowers in winter and we harvest the whole plant, let it dry then burn it with white ash from the eucalyptus tree, it’s an old recipe.
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Lorrkon (Hollow Log) The Lorrkon or bone pole coffin ceremony is the final ceremony in a sequence of mortuary rituals celebrated by the people of Arnhem Land. This ceremony involves the placing of the deceased’s bones into a hollow log decorated with painted clan designs and ceremonially placed into the Read more…
Bula'bula Arts
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Woven Stingray Yolŋu weavers of Arnhem Land craft both utilitarian and ceremonial objects using naturally sourced materials, with more recent works also including decorative pieces, such as this woven stingray. The primary material used in this piece is the young, green leaves of the Pandanus spiralis tree, that were harvested Read more…
Bula'bula Arts
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Woven Barramundi Yolŋu weavers of Arnhem Land craft both utilitarian and ceremonial objects using naturally sourced materials, with more recent works also including decorative pieces, such as this woven barramundi. The primary material used in this piece is the young, green leaves of the Pandanus spiralis tree, that are harvested Read more…
Bula'bula Arts
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Bathi (Pandanus Basket) Yolŋu weavers of Arnhem Land create utilitarian, ceremonial, and decorative pieces using naturally sourced materials. This Bathi (Pandanus Basket) is made from young Pandanus spiralis leaves, harvested with a wooden hook, stripped of prickles, and dried to create strong, resilient fibres. These fibres are then twisted, coiled, Read more…