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Living off the land – Bow River In most of Kathy’s painting, the subject of her artwork depicts the country and landscapes of her mothers country called Bow River – which is also known to be called by its traditional name Juwulunji.  In this painting Kathy has painted her mother and Read more…

Warrambany Of Warrman WAC ~ Paintings floating

GREENVALE STATION – KATHY RAMSAY “This is that Greenvale now. Mum told me that that’s that Garrganny (water lily) place. They got a sharp rock there and all them pointy rocks. Them round circles, them digging holes from the old, old people. They went looking for them things now, bush Read more…

Warlawoon& Bow River Country – Kathy Ramsay This painting represents two countries – Kathy’s dad’s country, Warlawoon, and her country where she grew up, Bow River.   One half is about the Warlawoon Country my dad Rammie Ramsay country my beautiful old artist dad who left his memory with me Read more…

Kangaroo Rock Dreaming (Norton Bore) This is the kangaroo rock at Norton Bore. Old people would rub this rock when they wanted to go hunting and kangaroos would come out at Violet Valley and Norton Bore. If you go there now, you’ll see all of the kangaroos still around these Read more…

Cyclone Tracy – Jane Tinmarie-Yalunga This is my old man’s [Rover Thomas] story about Cyclone Tracy in Darwin in 1974, two years after I was born. Rover got his joonba, Goorirr Goorirr , from this Cyclone. Out near that store [Warmun’s Wungkul store] a woman had a crash and she went Read more…

Argyle Diamond Mind Rehab This painting is about the closure of Argyle mine – the right hand side depicts the devastation caused by the site, and the left hand side depicts how we would would like it to be rehabilitated for our future generations. The current rehabilitation project started in 2020 Read more…