Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney – My Grandmothers Country I still hunt my Grand Mothers country for goanna, bush medicine and yams. I hunt all year round, hunting and walking through the country makes me happy. When I look at the distant hills I can feel my grandmother. Bush flowers are everywhere. Read more…
Nancy Pitjara Frank – Bush Flowers I was born in the bush at Ammaroo Station, along the Sandover. I have never seen the ocean or a big city. My mother and father were strong healthy people who taught me and my younger sister Rita the traditional way to hunt for Read more…
Rita Pitjara Beasley – My Father’s Country “This is my Father’s country. This place is our hunting place. I always go with my daughters and their children, I show them this place and teach them about the swampy country. We hunt for goannas, bush potato, bush tomato and after the Read more…
Julieanne Ngwarraye Morton – My Country, My Bush Medicine My Mother, Lilly Kemarre, taught me to paint. She likes to paint her Mother’s and Father’s country from the old days, when they used to live off of the land. The landscape changes during the different seasons in the year. I Read more…
Kuntjanu – Rockhole and Water Snake Kuntjanu is a women’s site, a powerful place from the Pitjantjatjara Lands in South Australia. Long ago, the women came to Kuntjanu. The land was good — rich with bush foods, and the Rockhole there was full, a sweet place to rest for a Read more…
Kuntjanu – Rockhole and Water Snake Kuntjanu is a women’s site, a powerful place from the Pitjantjatjara Lands in South Australia. Long ago, the women came to Kuntjanu. The land was good — rich with bush foods, and the Rockhole there was full, a sweet place to rest for a Read more…
Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney – My Grandmothers Country I still hunt my Grand Mothers country for goanna, bush medicine and yams. I hunt all year round, hunting and walking through the country makes me happy. When I look at the distant hills I can feel my grandmother. Bush flowers are everywhere. Read more…
Beverly Pula Luck – My Mother’s Country Beverly paints her Mother’s country. When Beverly was a child her mother took her all around her country and showed her the bush medicine and bush tucker. The knowledge of the bush plants has been handed down through generation to generation and Beverly still spends Read more…
Kathleen Nanima Rambler – Awerle Anatye (Yam Plant) When I go visit my family this is where I see the big cream coloured bush tomatos, pink desert roses and goannas running across the road. All along the road is a sea of desert roses. The secret yams grow under the Read more…
Edie Kemarre Holmes – Antarrengeny Edie depicts Antarrengeny when there has been no rain and the land shimmers like jewels. It is the open flat country, after a bushfire, when only the young grasses and the trees are growing and where there is good hunting.” Antarrengeny is Edie’s country and Read more…