Warrnyu Dhawu (Flying Fox Story) Back in the Creation time, Warrnyu (Flying Foxes) once lived, like men, in the cave at the place called Kurrki Warrnyu Yirri Djaringal (they also lived in caves called Wadatilmurr & Gurngurmirrngu). Warrnyu lived in Read more…
Woven Mat Traditionally, Nganiyal (conical mats) were used as an insect screen when erected, and as a sitting mat when folded. They are used in Ceremony as well as a functional item. Nowadays, artists weave many different shapes including flat, Read more…
Woven Mat Traditionally, Nganiyal (conical mats) were used as an insect screen when erected, and as a sitting mat when folded. They are used in Ceremony as well as a functional item. Nowadays, artists weave many different shapes including flat, Read more…
Northern Marbled Velvet Gecko (Oedura marmorata) 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 Read more…
Mulla Mulla Reclaiming Mining Land These patterns represent the land dug out be mining. They cut into the landscape. These are the Mulla Mulla that grow over the top.
Our Country (The Pilbara) Pilbara is the country where we the Yindjibarndi people live and share many of our cultural stories and history that have been passed onto us by our ancestors, of how they used to walk through the Read more…
Running Rivers After a big rain the are all running we all go out bush to spend the day and enjoy the running rivers.
KAMBI – Fashion Collection, Junibel Doughboy, Bulbuji Print I’m Kuku-Yalanji woman. My mum is from Wujal Wujal and my dad is from Laura, Chillagoe and Cooktown. My Bulbuji print represents the dragonfly’s. We can’t touch Bulbuji or wurarr-wurarr. They are Read more…
Hand Painted – Clapsticks Bana Yirriji Art Centre represents artists from the Yalanji, Nyungkul and Jalunji clan groups. Bama (local people) have had a long history of artistic expression, including ceremonial body painting, weavings made from local plants, rainforest shields and Read more…
Bark Painting Aboriginal bark paintings have a long cultural tradition, believed to extend back many thousands of years.In northern Australia, paintings on bark shelters in the Kimberley and Arnhem Land were stylistically similar to rock shelter paintings. The Aboriginal bark Read more…