Birnoo Country – Gordon Barney This painting shows Gordon’s country – Birnoo Country (Alice Downs Station). Birnoo is Gordon’s mother’s country. Gordon mustered cattle all throughout this country for many years – the way his father taught him to. He became known as a skilled horsebreaker and buckjumper (rodeo rider). Read more…
ALICE DOWNS WATERHOLE This works depicts a deep waterhole on Alice Downs Country. This is Gordon’s Country, this is where he was born and worked as a stockman when he was a young man. It is situated around an hour south of Warmun, where Gordon now lives. Gordon used to Read more…
Nyaardiny – Terminalia Platyphylla tree In this painting Shirley has painted the flowers and seeds of a tree known as nyaardinji in our traditional language Kija – otherwise known as a Terminalia Platyphylla, this type are seen along creeks and is also a species that has edible gum that taste Read more…
Bow River – A Ray of light My family and I were traveling back from a fishing hole next to Bow River bridge. When we took the road back to community on a late afternoon in dusk, it was heavily cloudy, when a ray light came through the sky.
Garradjain Country – Rose’s Yard This is Mary’s mothers country, down on Springvale Station. That country is called Garradjain. The country is part of the Garnkiny (moon) dreaming. Seen in the painting are the grass bundles as green circles. These bundles were rolled up and thrown into the water. They’d Read more…
Yarrunga Sometime early in the 20th century… “That Ngargarrliny, he got a nawan. Deg ginini janga-janga-baya. That chain janga-janga. Right-Oh, when they bin thed-hi, they bin give it em that mawiya. You know, lardge-girrem. And deg ginini wayini gerloor. Ngerlil nginini. I’ll wiji there, he nginini. Right oh, they bin Read more…
New Camp (Texas) We used to walk from here to the Station for work. The station was this way (near the hills). Nancy depicts a scene of the New Camp where her family and her migrated to, when they were served as workers on Texas Station. The circles represent the Read more…
