KAMBI – Fashion accessories, Earrings. Bana Yirriji are currently collaborating with Fashion Designer, Shannon Brett -To create a collection of fashion accessories to go with the garments – as wearable art pieces – that promote the work of the artists Read more…
KAMBI – Fashion Collection, Lila Creek – Baral Print I am a Nyungkul woman from Shipton’s Flat, my mother’s Country. My dad was a Kaanju man from the Coen area. This fabric print represents Bara which means tracks and what animals are travelling around. Some Read more…
Ocean Dreaming In the beginning, the Great Spirit of the Sea created the vast and endless ocean, a place of beauty and mystery. She painted the waters with her brush of foam and painted the sky with her brush of Read more…
Generic Aboriginal art in Ramingining, Central Arnhem Land is commonly illustrated through designs and images of animals, plants, and landscape. These motifs commonly reflect the artists ancestral inheritance and their dreamings and are referred to as totems. For this painting, Evonne Read more…
Giny’kiny (Catfish) Giny’kiny (cat fish) are a totemic species significant to the Gupapuyngu clan. They are represented through storylines and songlines through art and bunggul (dance). The lines in the painting depict the ripples in which the Giny’kiny created when Read more…
Fresh water Yabby and fish Aboriginal art in Ramingining, Central Arnhem Land is commonly illustrated through designs and images of animals, plants, and landscape. These motifs commonly reflect the artists ancestral inheritance and their dreamings and are referred to as Read more…
Garrawura Minyt’j Each Yolngu clan was created by their ancestors as they moved along the country whilst they were singing, dancing and talking. Each time they arrived at a new land, they created distinct rom (culture, law). A part of Read more…
Shannon’s frilled necked lizards The Wagilag Sisters are central to the four important ceremonies of the Dhuwa moiety; the Djungguwan, the Gunabibi, the Ngulmarrk, and the Mandaialla. The story is primarily an account of how, in the distant past, the Read more…
Raypiny Dhawu (Fresh Water Story) All Aboriginal people originate from a spiritual source, fixed in a particular place in their land or the sea. These ‘spiritual reservoirs’ are often in the form of special waterholes made by Wangarr (creative spirits) Read more…
Djamo (dog) The djamo (dog) holds special mythological as well as practical significance for people of Central Arnhem land, particularly women. The men used to go hunting with a spear and the women with a dog. If the men didn’t catch Read more…