Pitu (Separation Well) “Pitu (Separation Well) is my grandfather’s Country, Wikiri is my nanna’s country, GJ (Georgia) Bore is my mama’s country and in the middle is Wantili. I’m painting the Country. My grandmother and grandfather was from this Country. They walked around eating, hunting, making fire from the spinifex Read more…
Untitled “When Martu paint, it’s like a map. Martu draw story on the ground and on the canvas, and all the circle and line there are the hunting areas and different waters and tracks where people used to walk, and [some you] can’t cross, like boundaries. So nowadays you see Read more…
Rockholes Depicted in this work are sources of kapi (water) within the artists’ ngurra (home Country, camp). Today Martu Country is still defined in terms of the location and type of water. Each of the hundreds of claypans, rockholes, waterholes, soaks and springs found in the Martu desert homelands is Read more…
Lyarra-lyarra (wren) Lyarra-lyarra (blue bird) Lyarra-lyarra always comes to my house and they come and look for water. They always comes to my fence and they look for water, they make me happy when I see the birds.
Tjaapa (Witchetty Grub) Witchery grub (Tjaapa) All the family’s went to bush somewhere near ntaria, we went hunting for Tjaapa tnyamaatja means whitchery grub. We sit by the trees to dig for whitchery grubs.
Lyerrtjina (budgerigar) Just driving past I saw birds. You know when you drive past and you can see all the birds.
Boggy Hole Finally driving back to Boggy Hole, Irpmankurra. That’s their Country, my partner Sammy’s family. That’s all the way to Running Waters now.
Nyingka (mistletoe/red robin) Nyingka is a careful one, out in the bush, hiding from the noise.
Lyarra-lyarra (wren) Lyarra-lyarra lyauwulhama, kanha nurna etnanha wuma. Wrens hide themselves, but we hear them chatter.
Nyingka (mistletoe/red robin) Nyingka is a careful one, out in the bush, hiding from the noise.