Wak Wak This painting depicts a sacred site at ‘Kurrurldul’, an outstation south of Maningrida. The ‘rarrk’, or abstract crosshatching, on this work represents the design for the crow totem ancestor called ‘Djimarr’. Today this being exists in the form of a rock, which is permanently submerged at the bottom Read more…
Ocean Waves The artwork represents my family sitting and camping on the beach watching the waves rolling into shore.
Ocean Swirls The artwork depicts water swirls within the ocean as we look down into the water.
Gwarda Gona brown snake The brown snake and the course of the old river before the cadell fault 28,000 years ago the earth rose 200 ft and pushed the water and out on country so the old people dug out the new course of the river to let the flood Read more…
Bitjimidja Tree Goanna Tree Goanna Hunting eggs in the grass lands and climbing gumtrees looking for nests also symbolic for doing the goanna dance cooroboree. Young man doing a cooroboree. the eight eggs represent the nest and the eight clans of the Yorta Yorta. Ulupna, Kwat Kwat, yallaba, Pangerang, also Read more…
Bathi (Pandanus Basket) Bathi are woven from the split leaves of the Screw Palm (Pandanus Spiralis). Coil weaving was introduced to Arnhem Land in the 1930s. It was adapted from techniques used by Indigenous women throughout South East Australia.
Bathi (Pandanus Basket) Bathi are woven from the split leaves of the Screw Palm (Pandanus Spiralis). Coil weaving was introduced to Arnhem Land in the 1930s. It was adapted from techniques used by Indigenous women throughout South East Australia.