Artists of Ampilatwatja
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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…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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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…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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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…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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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…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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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…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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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…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Mungili Waterholes and Rockholes “No one goes there and sees that landscape. Only two, Mr and Mrs [refers to footsteps in painting]. They was walking to see if the water was in there. Walking on the creek sand, they see the colours and walk down to the water hole and Read more…
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Ngalng (Freshwater yabby);- This narrative is closely associated with Ngalng (yabby) which are depicted in this work in figurative form, placed alongside the circular holes in which they can be found in creeks and waterholes. Artist Kenan Namunjdja, son of artist Deborah Yulidjirri, explains, ‘Kunkurra is for the Mankorlod area. [It] Read more…