Marebu (Floor Mat) and Yawkyawk (Young woman mermaid) A beautiful indigo discharge dyed cotton silk sari featuring woodblock designs created in 2023 during a special workshop with Tharangini Studio in Bangalore. This fabric features the following block designs: Kunred (Country) by Janet Marawarr) Marebu (Raylene Bonson) Kunngol ( clouds) Yawyyawk (young woman Read more…
Tjintungku irnyani ngangkaalingka ungu-wanungku This painting is the sun shining through the clouds. ‘Cloudy, raining, but the sun is shining through the clouds. The sun is going through the clouds. The clouds are trying to cover the sun, thunder coming, but the sun still coming through’.
Dirdbim (Moon Dreaming) The images in this painting refer to a site in the clan estate of the artist, at a place called Dirdbim which literally means ‘image of the moon’. The site is a large, unusually round hole in sandstone, residual on the plain not far from the Mann Read more…
Dilly Bag Kun-madj, or dilly bag, is a large woven collecting basket. These large bags are often made from the vine Malasia scandens, a strong pliable plant which grows along the floor and into the canopy of monsoon vine thickets. The bags are used to collect any kind of large Read more…
Barnda – long neck turtle In the mythology or dreaming history of the Ganalbingu and Gurrgurrdjunggu peoples, two sisters who were the human forms of barnda ‘the Long-neck Turtle’ (Chelodina rugosa) came travelling a long distance from the east towards Ganalbingu country in Central Arnhem Land. They travelled through Martay country arriving at Read more…
Yarrpanj (Honeybees) The artist has depicted the native honeybees and the honey they produce. Wild honey, called ‘woma’ in Burarra language, is produced by a number of species of native sting less honeybees of the [Genus Trigona]. Some make their hives in trees, some in the ground, especially in the Read more…
Morning Star Pole The ceremony known throughout Arnhem Land generically as Marradjiri is a ceremony of diplomacy given by one group to another to establish good relations and to strengthen kinship (for example by marriage) and economic ties (for example the sharing of clan estate resources). The central object in Read more…
