Tuwa around Kunawarritji
Pija was born in the desert, near Kunawarritji Community (also known as Well 33 on the Canning Stock Route). This artwork illustrates the sandhills and the vegetation that grows in the desert around Kunawarritji.
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Tuwa around Kunawarritji
Pija was born in the desert, near Kunawarritji Community (also known as Well 33 on the Canning Stock Route). This artwork illustrates the sandhills and the vegetation that grows in the desert around Kunawarritji.
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Tuwa around Kunawarritji
Pija was born in the desert, near Kunawarritji Community (also known as Well 33 on the Canning Stock Route). This artwork illustrates the sandhills and the vegetation that grows in the desert around Kunawarritji.
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Tuwa around Kunawarritji
Pija was born in the desert, near Kunawarritji Community (also known as Well 33 on the Canning Stock Route). This artwork illustrates the sandhills and the vegetation that grows in the desert around Kunawarritji.
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Kumpupirntily Area
“Some people paint a rockhole, only rockhole. Nothing. I got story. Jukurrpa. Full up….” This painting depicts Kumpupirntily (Lake Disappointment) out in the Canning Stock Route area. It is a large warla (salt lake) that holds great significance for the artist. This is where the Ngayurnangalku (cannibal beings) live under the surface of the lake. If you dig in the lake and disturb them the beings rise up like a man “If they dig him up, anybody, blackfella, whitefellas they’ll get killed! They’ll have a good feed!”
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Mungulu
This Painting depicts Mungulu an important kupi (water) place kakarra (east) of Puntawarri a now abandoned community in-between Jigalong and well 17 on the Canning Stock Route. This area is her brother’s country. While growing up at Jigalong mission, the artist returned to her home every weekend to hunt and camp. Dada is recognised as a great authority in Jigalong and is particularly knowledgeable about Country in that area. Many of her paintings have a hovering, vibrating quality that is thoroughly grounded in Country, jukurrpa (dreaming) and history, even while it challenges stereotypes of ‘traditional’ desert paintings.
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Colours Through The Rocks
In Yindjibarndi country there are many different shaped rock formations. It looks like a truck has tipped a huge pile of rocks. At different times of the day, especially in the evening sunset, you will see the beautiful colours changing across the face of the rocks which compliments the soft spinifex growing through the country.
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Millstream Homestead
This is where I grew up. Where my family worked and where I got my first job as a station hand. I have strong childhood memories from here. I use the memories in my mind to paint places as I remember them.
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Rangers
The rangers in the Pilara glow at certain times of the day. The light hits the face of the rock and the colours shift. My country is full of life. Native plants grow in the tough conditions against the odds. We are strong like these plants.
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Purple Mulla Mulla
Purple Mulla Mulla grows among the grasses, blending beautifully with the bushes. It grows in carpets around my country. The seeds are carried in the wind and new plants spring up every season.