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Ngayuku Ngura

This painting depicts designs that evoke various parts of the landscape of Janet’s Country, Nyapari. Nyapari is located near Amata in South Australia. The repeated curved shapes represent rock formations and bush tucker. The concentric circles represent waterholes or meeting sites. If present, the U shapes represent women sitting around a waterhole. Janet has depicted spinifex bushes, bush flowers and water courses which are found in Nyapari. Janet’s work captures the immense beauty of Nyapari.

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Yunala Tjukurrpa (Bush Carrot)

In this painting Adrian depicts the Yunala Tjukurrpa, a story passed down from his father. The one continuous line that intricately weaves across the canvas represents the roots hidden underground. The four pronged shapes are the grass that push up to signal where to dig.  Through this work, Adrian is also able to express the significant memories he holds of digging for Yunala ,or bush carrots, with his father near Kiwirrkurra. 

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Papa Tjukurrpa – Nyumannu

Nyunmanu is a Dingo Dreaming site just to the south east of the remote Aboriginal community of Kintore in the Northern Territory. Most of the dingoes and their pups from this place rose up into the sky and became stars. However, the ancestral mother Dingo and her pup had gone out hunting and were too tired to rise up, so they turned into a large rock that marks the place of this sacred Dreaming. 

It is said that if you sleep in this place you will dream of the ancestral dingo puppies. The story goes that if you remove one of the gleaming stones found at Nyunmanu, the puppies will haunt your dreams until you return it to the place where it belongs. The custodians of this Tjukurrpa are Nungarrayi, Tjungarrayi, Napaltjarri and Tjapaltjarri women and men.

The circles in this story often represent important waterholes. The roundels extending from the circles are the designs the women paint on their breasts during ceremony.

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Four Dreamings

In this work Carbiene depicts four dreaming stories which he inherited from his father. These tjukurrpa are associated with a series of waterholes running between Docker River and Kata Tjuta. Specifically, it includes four important sites: Petermann Ranges, Docker River, Kalaya Murrpu (Blood’s Range) and Mulyayti near Kata Tjuta. 

As a young man, Carbiene returned to these places and retraced the footsteps of his father. These memories stay with him vividly today. 

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Untitled

Simon’s paintings depict the dreaming stories and the travels of the Tingari, using the traditional concentric circle and line design.

Tingari refers to the Dreaming and its Laws for the Pintupi language group of the Central Western Desert. The Tingari is the Creation era when the Dreamtime Ancestors moved across the lands, creating the features of the landscape and all aspects of the natural world.

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Tingari

Simon’s paintings depict the dreaming stories and the travels of the Tingari, using the traditional concentric circle and line design.

Tingari refers to the Dreaming and its Laws for the Pintupi language group of the Central Western Desert. The Tingari is the Creation era when the Dreamtime Ancestors moved across the lands, creating the features of the landscape and all aspects of the natural world.

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Kalipinypa Tjukurrpa

The painting depicts designs connected to Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) at Kalipinypa, a sacred site northwest of the Aboriginal Community of Kintore in the Central Western Desert of Australia. The Tjukurrpa tells of an important rain making ceremony to invoke the elements. It is a powerful storm bringing on the lightning, thunderclouds and rain sending its deluge to rejuvenate the earth, filling rock holes, clay pans and creeks. It has the power to create new life and growth upon the land. There is a lightning strike at this place.

In this Tjukurrpa the angular shapes represent the dryness of the Kapi Tjukitji (waterhole). Alice talks of having no spring water in this site. The arrow shapes represent the footprints of the white heron that frequent the site. The custodians for this tjukurrpa are Nakamarra, Tjakamarra, Naparula and Tjaparulla skin subsections.

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Tingari

Simon’s paintings depict the dreaming stories and the travels of the Tingari, using the traditional concentric circle and line design.

Tingari refers to the Dreaming and its Laws for the Pintupi language group of the Central Western Desert. The Tingari is the Creation era when the Dreamtime Ancestors moved across the lands, creating the features of the landscape and all aspects of the natural world.

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Tingari

Simon’s paintings depict the dreaming stories and the travels of the Tingari, using the traditional concentric circle and line design.

Tingari refers to the Dreaming and its Laws for the Pintupi language group of the Central Western Desert. The Tingari is the Creation era when the Dreamtime Ancestors moved across the lands, creating the features of the landscape and all aspects of the natural world.

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Papa Tjukurrpa – Nyumannu

Nyunmanu is a Dingo Dreaming site just to the south east of the remote Aboriginal community of Kintore in the Northern Territory. Most of the dingoes and their pups from this place rose up into the sky and became stars. However, the ancestral mother Dingo and her pup had gone out hunting and were too tired to rise up, so they turned into a large rock that marks the place of this sacred Dreaming. 

It is said that if you sleep in this place you will dream of the ancestral dingo puppies. The story goes that if you remove one of the gleaming stones found at Nyunmanu, the puppies will haunt your dreams until you return it to the place where it belongs. The custodians of this Tjukurrpa are Nungarrayi, Tjungarrayi, Napaltjarri and Tjapaltjarri women and men.

The circles in this story often represent important waterholes. The roundels extending from the circles are the designs the women paint on their breasts during ceremony.