Boab Trees 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), and different varieties Read more…
Status: Stock Apron – Screen Print Assorted Prints created by Nagula Jarndu Artists. Sewn in Broome.
Road Works – Kelvin Kemarre Ladd I like country music, and painting community. My paintings are all about those stock camp life, the horses, cattle, dogs and the music, I listen and play country today. It’s the life that I grew up around in a stock camp. I used to Read more…
My Country – Michelle Pula Holmes “When I go out hunting I always like to see the colour in the trees, the light, the dark and the bush medicine plants growing on the sand hills. The colours change at sunrise and sunset. I like hunting and seeing my country.” I Read more…
Ntang Native Seeds The seeds are collected under a tree by laying a tarp on the ground and hitting the tree continuously until most of the seeds have fallen. Once the seeds are collected they are then ground with a mortar and grinding stone. A number of these grinding stones Read more…
Springvale Springvale, a painting inspired by Peter’s mother (Mary Thomas- late) of her country in a design she used to paint.
View of Country – Sevania Kemarre Bonney The community of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint ‘altyerr’ dreaming stories, the artists paint their country where those stories sit. Sevenia was born in Soakage Bore, Utopia and started to paint when she was teenager. She learnt the way Read more…
Birnoo Country- Lorraine Daylight This is a painting of Birnoo Country – Birnoo is on what is now known as Alice Downs Station and belonged to Lorraine’s paternal grandmother. Lorraine was taught to paint this Country by her father, Warmun artist Gordon Barney. Gordon was a skilled stockman, horsebreaker and Read more…
Kalumpuu – Spear In Australia before teh first Europeans laid thier foo here (15th Century), our Dreamtime lives here for a very long time. This painting is on the North Australia WA ( The East Kimberley). It sits near Warrarmarn (Warmun). The painting lay into our ancestors country ( Kija Read more…