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Ilyala Boss “This is a descendant of (people call it) Martu Romeo and Juliet, because in those days penalty was death when you married wrong skin. This is a love story. They was hiding. They lived in the dessert for Read more…

Coastal Dreaming “That’s the dessert and the water where I grew up. I miss it.” -Olivia Wilson   “When Martu paint, it’s like a map. Martu draw story on the ground and on the canvas, and all the circle and Read more…

Waterhole This work depicts a waterhole within the artists’ ngurra (home Country, camp), typically represented with circular forms. Waterholes are sites that require maintenance, including digging to increase flow, clearing out surrounding growth, and cleaning up after sullying by camels Read more…

All the Tuwa 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 Read more…

Untitled This work portrays an area known intimately 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 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 “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…