Lizzie – Karrinyarra Tjukurrpa This painting depicts designs connected to the sacred site of Karrinyarra. This is a Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) and Yalka Tjukurrpa (Bush Onion) place. The lines can represent water travelling over country and the dots represent the Yalka plant that is in abundance in the area.
Simon Yungut – 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 Read more…
Doris Bush 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 Read more…
Four Dreamings – Carbiene McDonald 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 Read more…
Doris Bush 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 Read more…
Glenda Kapi Tjukurrpa The painting depicts designs associated with Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) at Kalipinypa, a site northwest of Kintore. 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 Read more…
ada andy Kapi Tjukurrpa This painting tells one of many water dreamings from the Papunya area. The circles represent important water or rock hole sites. The background design symbolises the landscape after the rains when the earth has been replenished with new growth. The rock holes collect the water during the Read more…
Kukula McDonald – Red Bums In this painting Kukula has depicted a mob of Red-tailed black cockatoos flying over the Papunya landscape. Kukula refers to them as “Red Bums”.
Mingkulpa Dreaming Janelle painted this after a successful Tjupi bush trip, to forage for Mingkulpa (bush tobacco). She depicts the plant flowering against an evening sky.
Glenda Kapi Tjukurrpa The painting depicts designs associated with Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) at Kalipinypa, a site northwest of Kintore. 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 Read more…