Lungki and Wuukarta Depicted in this work are traditional types of bush tucker, their habitats, and their related hunting and gathering methods. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) period, Martu would traverse very large distances annually in small family groups, 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…
Mining Lands This is as far as the eye could see….this great land of knowledge is vanishing before our eyes….it is so sad. There will be no more teaching places….no more tribal heritage, culture grounds…….just the ash of the developments Read more…
Untitled Doreen first learned to paint alongside her mother, beginning her artistic career with Martumili Artists in March 2009 when she and the other women of Punmu painted a large collaborative artwork to raise funds for the community. Doreen is Read more…
Yawkyawk (Ngalkunburriyaymi) This sculpture depicts yawkyawk, a specific Kuninjku word meaning ‘young woman spirit being’. Yawkyawk have fish tails and human torsos and reside in freshwater streams and billabongs. They are sometimes called ngalberddjenj which literally means ‘the woman who has a tail like a Read more…
Jaramarra Jaramarra is a waterhole located kayili (north) of the Percival Lakes region in Western Australia’s Great Sandy Desert. Jaramarra forms part of Ngarga’s ngurra (home Country, camp), and lies just west of the site where she was born. Jaramarra Read more…
Minyipuru (Jakulyukulyu, Seven Sisters) The term Jukurrpa is often translated in English as the ‘dreaming’, or ‘dreamtime’. It refers generally to the period in which the world was created by ancestral beings, who assumed both human and nonhuman forms. These Read more…
