Billabong Feed This painting depicts multiple yams, along with a diving duck and file snake. All are very tasty bush tucker. Raark or fine line work is in Yirritja style and consists of multiple lines before alternating colour. Modern acrylic paint has been used.
Bush Tools This painting depicts a series of important bush tools. Visible include a few stone blades, multiple dillybags, coolamons or water carriers as well as bondocks or woomeras. Some fire starting implements can also be seen. Painting has been completed using a handmade Jarlk reed brush. This can be found Read more…
Flying Fox This painting depicts a flying fox hanging upside down, a common sight around Beswick. During dry season flying foxes come and roost making noise all day and driving people crazy. In the old times people used to hunt and cook the animals, however don’t so much any more. Once Read more…
BllaBong Feed This painting has a mix of plants and animal species. From left is a long tom fish; these are very skinny and bony and often used as bait for larger fish species. Next is a File Snake, or quiet snake. These are found in billabongs and wet areas Read more…
Shark & Barra This painting depicts multiple barramundi schooling. A shark is also visible, feeding on one unfortunate barra. Raark or fine line work has been completed using a handmade Jarlk reed brush harvested from local billabongs and wet areas.
Jaigung – File Snake This painting depicts two Jaigung, or file snakes swimming in water. File snakes are a harmless water snake and good tasty tucker when roasted in coals.
Two Fish This painting depicts two fish commonly found in local billabongs and creeks around Beswick / Wugularr. Included is a black bream and a bogong or rainbow perch. Visual style of this painting is very similar to Frankie Tango Lane as Travis is apprenticing under Tango’s tutelage. Tango painted the black Read more…
Turle + Fish Djilpin Arts is a not for profit Aboriginal Corporation that promotes the maintenance, development and transmission of traditional cultural knowledge systems. Djilpin Arts specialises in live cultural performance, digital media, and produces the popular performance event – the Walking With Spirits Festival as well as Concerts on Read more…
Jaigung & Barra This painting depicts a Jaigung or file snake along with a barramundi swimming around a billabong. Painting has been completed using modern acrylic paint and paintbrushes.
Long Neck Turtle Nyangura the Long-Neck Tortoise is Yirritja. The two sacred ancestral Nyangura are found at a place called Djirringi in north-central Arnhem Lane on Ganalbingu land. The tracks left by the two ancestral totemic Nyangura, as they crawled over the land at Djirringi, is a sacred symbol. This Read more…