Puli Puli – Rocks Keturah depicts the puli puli (rocks) at two different sites. She paints the landscapes at Haasts Bluff where she grew up and also at Karrkurrutintja (Lake Mcdonald in Pintupi), located west of Kintore along the Western Australia/Northern Territory border. Karrkurrutintja country is an important site of Read more…
Dan – “Eyes of the Reef” This beautiful ghost net reef that I created from abandoned nets and rope represents my classroom and the marine environment I grew up in. “Dan” in my Kulkalgal People’s language means “pool of water” or “the eyes of the reef.” This artwork I created Read more…
Yilyara Yilyara is one of several frequently visited yinta (permanent springs) located in the Country immediately surrounding Punmu Aboriginal community. Yilyara is located immediately east of Nyayartakujarra (Lake Dora), a vast and culturally significant salt lake in the north east section of the Karlamilyi River (Rudall River) region. Surrounding the Read more…
Pirrkili “We camped there, lots of water in that claypan. Old people camp, passing through, going to Karlamilyi. Warman people passing through. From this place they go to Mulunyjarra (rockhole)” – Elizabeth Toby Pirrkili is a claypan surrounded in all directions by permanent tali (sandhills), located east of Nyayartakujarra (Lake Read more…
Jamparri Jamparri is a yinta (permanent spring) located yapurra (west) of Karlamilyi River (Rudall River) and ngaparti (south) of Yaralalu waterhole. Both areas are known as good hunting sites. The Karlamilyi River and its surrounds were created by the Jila Kujarra (Two Snakes) as they journeyed north east to Nyayartakujarra Read more…
Untitled “When Martu paint, it’s like a map. Martu draw story on the ground and on the canvas, and all the circle and line there are the hunting areas and different waters and tracks where people used to walk, and [some you] can’t cross, like boundaries. So nowadays you see Read more…
Bush Tucker “When they burn the country, and then when it starts to grow, when you travel you see it, theres the bush flowers and the bush fruits.” – Derek Robinson Depicted in this work are traditional types of bush tucker, their habitats, and their related hunting and gathering methods. During Read more…
Desert Country This is Ngamaru’s Country- her ‘ngurra’ (home Country, camp). People identify with their ngurra in terms of specific rights and responsibilities, and the possession of intimate knowledge of the physical and cultural properties of one’s Country. Painting ngurra, and in so doing sharing the Jukurrpa (Dreaming) stories and Read more…
Waru (fire) “My painting is about waru, fire. In my grandfathers country they have spinifex, and they burn it, it was an everyday thing for our old people. They used to clean the land, burn, hunt for bushtucker, for goanna, for all bush food. This painting is part of Tayiku, Read more…
Kulyakartu “This painting represents my families country and how we are part of it too. It’s Kulyakartu, the tuwa (Sandhills), the grass….it’s a grassland. It’s from an inspiration of me from when I went on a KJ trip with Nyamu Muuki and Nana Nola. It was a good experience seeing Read more…