Coil Basket Coil basketry is a well-established fibre art form in the Maningrida region, especially for women from the Kuninjku, Rembarrnga, Ndjebbana and Nakkara language groups. Artists make coiled baskets of many shapes and sizes, ranging from small round baskets Read more…
Kunkurra (The Spiralling Wind) ‘Kunkurra’, the spiralling wind is associated with several sites in the Kardbam clan estate. On one level, this painting can be interpreted as a depiction of the kinds of mini-cyclones common during the wet season in Read more…
Colleen Ngwarraye Morton – Awangk Alheyel (Hunting) Colleen is one of the original artists in the Utopian batik movement in the 1980’s and has been successfully painting ever since. Colleen’s paintings often depict her Grandfather’s country where her family have Read more…
Rita Pitjara Beasley – Apwert Angketyarr (Hill Country) This place is our hunting place. I always go with my daughters and their children, I show them this place and teach them about the swampy country. We hunt for goannas, bush Read more…
Nancy Pitjara Frank – Artna Alpeyt (Bush Flowers) I was born in the bush at Ammaroo Station, along the Sandover. I have never seen the ocean or a big city. My mother and father were strong healthy people who taught Read more…
Kathleen Nanima Rambler – Mulangke Aherne (Beautiful Land) My country. When I go hunting out bush, as we drive along the road towards the hill you can see the beautiful land and the flowers blooming on the side of the Read more…
Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney – Flowers and Fairies This painting is of my Mother’s Country, where the enookecha (kunga berry) trees grow. After the rain the enookecha come out, the rain makes the flowers and seeds fall to the ground and Read more…
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…
Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney – Tijamburra, My Homeland My homeland is Tijamburra, Canteen Creek, I love that country, it is my Grandmother’s country and it is the only country that I paint. It is fresh country after the rain and it Read more…
Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney – Atyenh Anyany Amper (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 Read more…