Untitled Jakayu primarily paints her country around the Canning Stock Route. In the pujiman (nomadic bush) era, she travelled with her family through the land collecting wilyki (seeds). The circular forms depicted here represent special areas where grasses and wiylki can Read more…
Wirlarra Wirlarra, the site depicted in this painting, lies on the eastern edge of a large salt lake, Nyayartakujarra (Lake Dora), near Punmu Aboriginal community. A distinctive group of small salt water pools are clustered together here. The water from Read more…
Punmu waterholes – Marianne Burton “Punmu, I went there when I was a young girl, a teenager with my mother and father before my mother passed. Big mob of people was there. No building, just little cubby houses [bough shelters]. Read more…
Wirlarra Wirlarra, the site depicted in this painting, lies on the eastern edge of a large salt lake, Nyayartakujarra (Lake Dora), near Punmu Aboriginal community. A distinctive group of small salt water pools are clustered together here. The water from Read more…
Punmu kapi “These here are the waterholes around Punmu. Rawa spring, Rawa means long time. On the right is Tuu Tuu, then Jila Jila, Wilarra and Yilyara.” – Bianca Simpson Punmu is an Aboriginal community located 670km North-East of Newman, Read more…
Kurturarra “Kurturarra is my Grandmother’s Country. Warla (lake) with a spring. Tali (sandhills) all around.” – Beverley Rogers This site lies within Beverley’s ngurra (home Country, camp) through her grandmother. Kurturarra is a yinta (permanent spring) located within the largest of Read more…
Kunawarritji (Canning Stock Route Well 33) This painting is part of the Nyina-ya ngurrangka ngampurrpa (stay in your home safely) collection – a body of works by Martu artists in lockdown. From Monday 16th March Martumili Artists closed on-site art-production Read more…
Kunawarritji (Canning Stock Route Well 33) “When I was a young girl, I walked everywhere, travelling along the Canning Stock Route. I walked north and west, around Wana warla (lake). I grew up around there, going right around that Country Read more…
Kulyakartu This painting depicts Kulyakartu, Wokka’s ngurra (home Country, camp). Kulyakartu is located in the far north of the Martu homelands, near the Percival Lakes region of Western Australia’s Great Sandy Desert. Wokka has extensive knowledge of the Country in Read more…
Yimiri “Yimiri is [at] a salt lake. There’s two water in the middle, drinking water. That’s a drinking water for us. You can walk right up to lake in the middle of the salt. It’s fresh and beautiful. You gotta Read more…