Pilbara Hills In our country, we have many hills of all different shapes and sizes. When driving through country at different times the colours change and some of the hills look like velvet in the evening and morning light .
After the Big Rain After the rain the rivers and creeks in our country come alive with a new growth of plants. The country is filled with beautiful colours. We rejoice looking at our rivers and creeks full of water, so that we can go fishing, kids can go swimming Read more…
Pilbara flowers (blue bells) Blue bells are common in the pilbara.It grows to a certain height in the bush and grows amongst the other flowers such as sturt pea and mulla mulla flowers.This flower has a prickly stem and every year grows wild in our country.
Ngayuku Walka / My Design Walka means design or pattern. Artists use this title to describe artworks that are pattern based rather than descriptive or telling a story.
Tjulpu Kulunypa – Baby Birds This is an artwork about birds and their chicks. Carlene often paints birds, as tjulpu tjukurpa (bird dreaming) is related to her family’s country which is near Kanypi in the Western APY Lands. As a mother of several children, family themes are common in Carlene’s Read more…
Piltati – Elizabeth Dunn’s story Piltati is Elizabeth’s great-grandfather’s country and her dreaming story. Two brothers were married to two sisters and they all lived together. One day the two men go out hunting, looking for malu (kangaroo). They travel everywhere and find nothing. They start to worry – what Read more…
Kampukuta: The older sister. Mrs Angilyiya Mitchell is a Traditional Owner for Kuru Ala, a sacred place for women’s business and the Kungkarrangkalpa /Seven sister tjukurpa/story. In this painting, the Kungkarrangkalpa are travelling through Wanarn country while being chased by Wati Nyiru. Wati Nyiru, wrong skin man, is interested in Read more…
Wearable Mat Fibre Art is an ancient Aboriginal women’s craft that is still made today using the same techniques as their ancestors. Making fibre art is labour intensive and much care and fine needlework is required to ensure the finished object is both functional and beautiful. Fibre art from Ghunmarn Read more…
We Are One This is a picture of a stingray, sword fish, jelly fish, their food and the dots represent bubbles. Ashley mob, me and my brother Harry are one Saltwater people – my grandfather from Elcho Island has Saltwater totem. Djilpin Arts is a not for profit Aboriginal Corporation Read more…
Brother’s Story This is the totem for me, my brother, “Totem for me, my brother, father and grandfather, we belong to story for swamp. In it there is file snake and waterlily. Djilpin Arts is a not for profit Aboriginal Corporation that promotes the maintenance, development and transmission of traditional Read more…