Great Grandmother How did you get to this style of painting? “Do you mean, what have I done with my life? (chuckles to herself) To me these paintings are a sense of energy. So if I see someone and they’re happy, I paint a happy vibe. Cos their spirit is 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…
Mother Earth Reclaiming its Land This work portrays an area known to the artist, painted here from memory. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) era one’s survival depended on their intimate knowledge of the location of resources; thus physical elements of Country, such as sources of kapi (water), tali (sandhills), Read more…
Pitu (Separation Well) “Pitu, soak, big one. Water there all the time. Pitu, the place for our whole family. [As a young girl] I walked around and went east back to my dad’s area, to Pitu and Kulilu, Nakaly and Kunapila. Then I was a teenager. My Country is Pitu Read more…
Catfish Ceremony We dance this as the last song and dance of the funeral ceremony, to memorise the spirit that turns back to become the freshwater catfish and the saltwater catfish. This is the cycle of life.
Kus Ekweida This work was created to show that from death comes new life. A coconut has sprouted to life beside the remains of a turtle. A number of varieties of turtles nest and breed on the shores of the Torres Strait. Turtles are important to Torres Strait Islanders in Read more…
At Home Together At Home Together was a collaboration born from the need to reach out and engage people during COVID-19, working together and spreading the ghost net message about ocean conservation. Using the social media model developed by Lynnette Griffiths during other exhibitions The idea behind the AT HOME Read more…
Burrula (Diving Ducks] This painting depicts diving ducks, both realistically and symbolically. A particular clan group uses the object in the painting during a hollow log ceremony (traditional funeral ceremony). The rrark (cross hatching) is the water. One group will perform the catfish dance whilst another performs as diving ducks. Read more…
