Canning Stock Route This artist primarily paints her country around Kunawarritji (Well 33) and across to Kiwirrkura which is her birth place. As a young woman, the artist travelled this country extensively so she has a very in depth knowledge Read more…
Yartuturma Warla This painting depicts Yartuturma Warla, a salt lake in the artist’s country between Punmu and Kunawarritji Aboriginal Communities. May says, “In the Jukurrpa (Dreamtiume), two wantis (women) went there looking for men. They were singing out there. Then Read more…
Everybody Mili Ngurra This painting represents the “Rock hole’ Jurnu, Yinta, everything!!”When the artist was younger during the Pujiman (bush) days she walked around a very extensive area of the desert all around the Canning Stock Route area. They would Read more…
Kulyakartu This painting is part of a quadriptych painted by the artist representing different times and cycles within his country Kulyakartu. Kulyakartu is an area in the far north of the Martu homelands, near the Percival Lakes in the northern Read more…
Nyurnma This painting portrays Nyurnma with all of the plants in flower. There are all kinds of plants, the warmala (bush tomatoes) have purple flowers. The yellow dots are the grasses coming up. The bare ground is a rocky bit Read more…
Emu Tracks to Puntawarri This painting depoicts the tracks of a mob of emus on their way to Puntawarri for kapi (water). Puntawarri is the artists’ mother’s family’s country and is on the middle stretches of the Canning Stock Route, Read more…
Kulyakartu “My Country, Kulyakartu. I grew up there, from little boy to big boy grew up there.” This painting depicts Muuki’s Country, Kulyakartu; an area in the far north of the Martu homelands, near the Percival Lakes in the northern Read more…
Untitled This painting portrays part of the artist’s country where their family lived traditionally during the pujiman (bush) days. The Martu lived very nomadically moving from water source to water source hunting and gathering bush tucker as they went. They Read more…
Untitled This painting portrays part of the artist’s country where their family lived traditionally during the pujiman (bush) days. The Martu lived very nomadically moving from water source to water source hunting and gathering bush tucker as they went. They Read more…
Wangakalu Jakayu and Bugai lived nomadically for much of their youth, travelling extensively around the Western Desert in the pujiman (bush dwelling) era. Often their families walked together for periods of time through the year, typically separating for a time Read more…