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Parna-Great Sandy Desert “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 Read more…

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 Read more…

Untitled 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 Read more…

Nyarruri (Canning Stock Route Well 32) “Nyarruri, Well 32. My Father’s birthplace.”  – Janelle Booth Nyarruri is a soak and nearby well on the Canning Stock Route, south west of Kunawarritji Aboriginal community. In 1906, Nyarruri, like Kunawarritji, was absorbed into Read more…

Sandhills The traditional lands of the Martu people encompass the Great Sandy Desert and Rudall River regions of Western Australia, an enormous tract dominated by distinctive red tali, or tuwa (sandhills). These sandhills present an unforgiving landscape; sparse vegetation covers Read more…