Kwanty Penh (After the Rain) We paint the bush medicine, bush tucker and bush flowers that are most personal and meaningful to us. While we work we have big talks about community matters, old time stories and bush tucker stories, how the blackberries would be out soon and how delicious they are kwanty Read more…
Kwanty Penh (After the Rain) We paint the bush medicine, bush tucker and bush flowers that are most personal and meaningful to us. While we work we have big talks about community matters, old time stories and bush tucker stories, how the blackberries would be out soon and how delicious they are kwanty Read more…
Kwanty Penh (After the Rain) We paint the bush medicine, bush tucker and bush flowers that are most personal and meaningful to us. While we work we have big talks about community matters, old time stories and bush tucker stories, how the blackberries would be out soon and how delicious they are kwanty Read more…
Kwanty Penh (After the Rain) We paint the bush medicine, bush tucker and bush flowers that are most personal and meaningful to us. While we work we have big talks about community matters, old time stories and bush tucker stories, how the blackberries would be out soon and how delicious they are kwanty Read more…
Jila-Jila “Rockholes, camps, creeks, seedlings. Creeks going towards the camp” – Judith Aspro Jila-jila is one of several soaks located close to Punmu Aboriginal Community, and on the eastern edge of Kumpupirntily (Kumpupintily, Lake Disapointment). During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) period, Martu would traverse very large distances annually in 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…
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…
Puntawarri Waterhole “We drink water at Puntawarri. We clean and dig that waterhole. This Country is Puntawarri. My nanna, Dadda, taught me to paint this Country. Puntawarri is important because it is my pop’s, my nannas’ husband’s, place. They camped there and went hunting for goanna or anything, kangaroo or Read more…
Jirntulurru Ngumpulurru (Martu Kinship) “The four skin groups that govern Martu social structures around marriage and lore are Jangala, Karimarra, Purungu and Milangka. [For example] Anya [Judith Anya Samson, Martumili artist] is Milangka, I am Karimarra skin. Within each skin grouping there is a male and female, and then only one other grouping with which each Read more…
