Blog

Mangala Country “My father’s Country. This is the four soaks in his Country.” – Emily Bumba

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…

Tali, Tuwa (Sandhills) 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 “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…

Julapanja, Wirrkuja “This Jilapunga rockhole. Kayili (east) from Yungara. Always kapi (water) there, pujiman (traditional, desert-dwelling Martu) would drink from there. All bush-tucker there, womula (bush tomato), and minyarra (bush-onion). Barli [the artist’s daughter] was little one walking around that place. Pujiman Read more…

Wantili, Canning Stock Route Area “This is Wantili, this is my Country, Amy’s Country, everybody’s Country. . It’s the hill and all the kapi (water). This one big Country, big area, pubajba (hills) claypan- big one. Water been running, rolling, Read more…

Tayiku “Tayiku [is a] yinta (permanent water source), big one. In the desert, long way, Kakarra (East). I been walking round there when I was a big girl, after I been married. My daughter, Barley Bumba, he [she] been born Read more…

Kulyakartu; Make a hole there, sing him, water come Country, ngayu mili (my) country. Old people mili country; Martu, Nyangumarta, Warnman, Nyanatjarra people. That’s the area I been born now. Big area, juri (good) country. Plenty warta (shrubs, trees) there, Read more…