Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney – Penh Artna Rwa (After Bushfire) This is the soakage (place to dig to find water) after the bushfire, made by a lightning strike. It burnt the grass down, then the rain came and the grass grows Read more…
Lilly Kemarre Morton – Antarrengeny, My Country Lilly has painted her country, Antarrengeny. The brightly coloured flowers and small bushes are bush medicine and are still used within the community. Lilly’s landscapes beautifully communicate the rich knowledge she possesses of Read more…
Beverly Pula Luck – Atyenh Amey Amper (My Mother’s Country) Beverly paints her Mother’s country. When Beverly was a child her mother took her all around her country and showed her the bush medicine and bush tucker. The knowledge of the bush Read more…
Jessie Ngwarraye Ross – Atyenh Amper (My Country) Jessie’s landscapes beautifully communicate the rich knowledge she possesses of medicinal plants and country, the heart of her culture. Jessie’s has painted her country, Ampilatwatja. The brightly coloured flowers and small bushes Read more…
Rosemary Ngwarraye Turner – My Landscapes I love flowers that grow wild in the bush. My Grandmother Rosie Ross taught me how to paint, and paint how I feel. I watched her paint and I took on what she did. Read more…
Sandhill Camp, Family’s Home, Ntaria This is a little area called Sand Hill Camp. It’s a little area for family at Ntaria (Hermannsburg). We used to live there, but now we live in Mparntwe . Other family still live there. Read more…
Women Collecting Bush Food Women talking about collecting bush food – where the best places are and the best times, whether seasonal or dependent on rain events – All the women sit with their digging sticks and piti’s [coolamons] around Read more…
Gunderson Kemarre Lewis – Atyenh Anyany Amper (Great Grandmothers Country) I paint my Great Grandmothers country around Canteen Creek. Long time ago she hunted around this soakage in this country. When I paint, I paint that country, the soakage the Read more…
Susan Ngwarraye Philomac – Spring Creek Kwetyaylp (donkeys) and nantew (horses) would come and drink from the water at Spring Creek on my father’s country. We would put a bucket in the sand we would filter the water so we Read more…
Robina Pitjara Jones – Atyenh Amper (My Country) This is my country out in Utopia an outstation called Soapy Bore it’s my Father’s country, there’s big soakage, hills, bush medicine and bush tucker. All my family paint, my grandmother, my mother Read more…