TEXAS DOWNS COUNTRY ‘Charlene is painting the country that her relatives and family come from- Texas Downs Station. Texas Downs Station is a place full of caves, waterholes and red hills. Charlene thinks this country is beautiful, there is plenty of water and many rockpools, creeks and rockholes. This is Read more…
SNAKE DREAMING This painting shows special place in Chinaman’s Garden, in Alice Downs Station, which is Marietta’s mother’s country. This place is where the Dreaming Snake moved through the country making permanent water holes where he passed.
RED BUTTE ‘This Red Butte, this red one,’ Churchill Cann says. The brown shape below Red Butte is Wangkarnaban, Crow Spring. To the left of Crow Spring is Cockatoo Spring. The black shape at the top is the water of Cockatoo Spring. Cann tells an Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) story from this Read more…
CALWYNYARDA ‘This is out on Fitzroy. That’s where I grew up. Caravans, vegie garden, dingo scalps and boab tree. I used to go and get the middle part of the cabbage and eat it while it is still in the ground and the carrots I used to pull it out Read more…
JOWURUBANJ.A DREAMING PLACE FOR BABIES. painting about Jowurubanj a Dreaming place for babies.An old man’s wife had given birth to a baby,and she left it (baby) near a paper-bark tree by the waterhole,so she can go look for sugar-bag (bush honey).her husband told her not to leave the baby near Read more…
BALANKIRR ‘ In the old days, my grandfather, grandmother and my mother and uncles used to walk over this range, through the gap on top of the painting, down into the valley. Fishing and collecting bamboo for spears. Then they would walk across the other range into the Bungle Bungles Read more…
OLD LADY SINGING OUT FOR HER DOG This Ngarranggarni (Dreaming) is from Darrajayin country, also known as Springvale Station. In the Ngarranggarni (Dreaming) an old woman sang out for her dog Marranyji, an old wild dingo. Her dog had taken off in pursuit of a jiyirriny – kangaroo. The dog Read more…
