Piltati – Elizabeth Dunn’s story Piltati is Elizabeth’s great-grandfather’s country and her dreaming story. Two brothers were married to two sisters and they all lived together. One day the two men go out hunting, looking for malu (kangaroo). They travel Read more…
Kampukuta: The older sister. Mrs Angilyiya Mitchell is a Traditional Owner for Kuru Ala, a sacred place for women’s business and the Kungkarrangkalpa /Seven sister tjukurpa/story. In this painting, the Kungkarrangkalpa are travelling through Wanarn country while being chased by Read more…
Wearable Mat Fibre Art is an ancient Aboriginal women’s craft that is still made today using the same techniques as their ancestors. Making fibre art is labour intensive and much care and fine needlework is required to ensure the finished Read more…
We Are One This is a picture of a stingray, sword fish, jelly fish, their food and the dots represent bubbles. Ashley mob, me and my brother Harry are one Saltwater people – my grandfather from Elcho Island has Saltwater Read more…
Brother’s Story This is the totem for me, my brother, “Totem for me, my brother, father and grandfather, we belong to story for swamp. In it there is file snake and waterlily. Djilpin Arts is a not for profit Aboriginal Read more…
Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney – My Grandmothers Country I still hunt my Grand Mothers country for goanna, bush medicine and yams. I hunt all year round, hunting and walking through the country makes me happy. When I look at the distant Read more…
Bondok Wood carving has always been part of Aboriginal culture and Djilpin artists continue this tradition. Men carved wood for many purposes – tools for hunting or gathering food, axes and knives for building shelters, spears and clubs for protection Read more…
Goanna Fibre Art is an ancient Aboriginal women’s craft that is still made today using the same techniques as their ancestors. Making fibre art is labour intensive and much care and fine needlework is required to ensure the finished object Read more…
Dilly Bag Fibre Art is an ancient Aboriginal women’s craft that is still made today using the same techniques as their ancestors. Making fibre art is labour intensive and much care and fine needlework is required to ensure the finished Read more…
Dilly Bag Fibre Art is an ancient Aboriginal women’s craft that is still made today using the same techniques as their ancestors. Making fibre art is labour intensive and much care and fine needlework is required to ensure the finished Read more…