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…
Bush Tucker Depicted in this work are traditional types of bush tucker, their habitats, and their related hunting and gathering methods. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) period, Martu would traverse very large distances annually in small family groups, moving seasonally from water source to water source, and hunting and Read more…
Jila-Jila Jila-jila is one of several soaks located close to Punmu Aboriginal Community, and on the eastern edge of Kumpupirntily (Kumpupintily, Lake Disappointment). Extensive permanent tali (sandhills) surround this soak. Jila-jila is also a popular area for collecting minyarra (bush onion). Minyarra (bush onion) are a favoured bush tucker amongst Read more…
Kunawarritji (Canning Stock Route Well 33) Kunawarritji is an important site in the Great Sandy Desert where multiple stories and histories intersect. Originally a spring water and major Martu pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) camping site, at the turn of the 20th century Kunawarritji was converted into a well along the Read more…
Wildflower “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…
TEXAS DOWNS COUNTRY ‘Charlene is painting the country that her relatives and family come from- Texas Downs Station. Texas Downs Station is a place full of caves, waterholes and red hills. Charlene thinks this country is beautiful, there is plenty of water and many rockpools, creeks and rockholes. This is Read more…
SNAKE DREAMING This painting shows special place in Chinaman’s Garden, in Alice Downs Station, which is Marietta’s mother’s country. This place is where the Dreaming Snake moved through the country making permanent water holes where he passed.
RED BUTTE ‘This Red Butte, this red one,’ Churchill Cann says. The brown shape below Red Butte is Wangkarnaban, Crow Spring. To the left of Crow Spring is Cockatoo Spring. The black shape at the top is the water of Cockatoo Spring. Cann tells an Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) story from this Read more…
CALWYNYARDA ‘This is out on Fitzroy. That’s where I grew up. Caravans, vegie garden, dingo scalps and boab tree. I used to go and get the middle part of the cabbage and eat it while it is still in the ground and the carrots I used to pull it out Read more…
