Wantili “My ngurra (home Country), Wantili area. [Points to linear forms] Sandhill, sandhill, sandhill everywhere. Claypan there, in the middle. Good place for swimming and drinking, for hunting little kangaroo. When no water [we would] go to Well, when there rain we stay there at Wantili. Everywhere, we been walking everywhere. Near to Wantili [there’s a] road going Kayili (North). Read more…
Untitled Doreen first learned to paint alongside her mother, beginning her artistic career with Martumili Artists in March 2009 when she and the other women of Punmu painted a large collaborative artwork to raise funds for the community. Doreen is now an established artist in her own right, known for Read more…
Untitled This painting depicts the artist’s Country, where she and her sisters and fellow artists May Wokka Chapman and Nyanjilpayi Nancy Chapman lived and camped as children. Mulyatingki and her family walked extensively through this area with their extended family during pujiman (traditional, desert-dwelling) times.
Guy coconut basket Guy coconut is a coconut that stains your hands from the skin to the juices until you get to the hard shell. Guy coconut also holds plenty of good drinking water which is good to drink on hot days. Art Centre notes: The basket is made of natural Read more…
Hillside Basket This basket is called hillside basket because of the lovely dark green colours and other dark shades of green/black and blue mixed well, it kinda looks like a land scape of hill side on the afternoon time. Art Centre notes: The basket is made of natural raffia / cotton. Read more…
Art Centre notes: The bag is made of natural raffia / cotton. It is made using a traditional ‘one twist’ method. the dyes are commercial and colour fast.
Art Centre notes: The bag is made of natural raffia / cotton. It is made using a traditional ‘one twist’ method. the dyes are commercial and colour fast
Art Centre notes: The bag is made of natural raffia / cotton. It is made using a traditional ‘one twist’ method. the dyes are commercial and colour fast. It has long tassles above and/or below.
Art Centre notes: The bag is made of natural raffia / cotton. It is made using a traditional ‘one twist’ method. the dyes are commercial and colour fast. It has long tassles above and/or below.
Jarntinti “I, me, Nyanjilpayi paint this one, Jarntinti Lake. I been born there, mine. I been little girl born there, Jarntinti area. Jarntinti big claypan near Punmu. Tarlpa, Jutupa, Wawulpa, all waterhole and yinta (permanent spring) in Jarntinti area. Long time [ago] plenty bush tucker there, yukuri (green grass, vegetation) Read more…