Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Helicopter This painting depicts country around the Community of Jigalong. Jigalong is the artist’s ngurra (home) where she lives with her family.
Helicopter This painting depicts country around the Community of Jigalong. Jigalong is the artist’s ngurra (home) where she lives with her family.
Emus Searching This is Yikartu’s Country- her ‘ngurra’ (home Country, camp). People identify with their ngurra in terms of specific rights and responsibilities, and the possession of intimate knowledge of the physical and cultural properties of one’s Country. Painting ngurra, Read more…
Dancing Brolgas (unstreched) This collaberation of a painting by Roslyn Serico and Raewyn Tougas (a non indigenous landscape artist) depicts a lagoon that is a secret women’s business place.
Kaalpa (Well 23) “Kaalpa is my grandfather ngurra (home) where they walked, hunting bush tuckers. I went there for the first time this year [2018] on a Martumili KJ (Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa) trip. I went hunting there, got a parnajalpa (sand goanna). When I Read more…
Country “I paint the Kaalpa area. That’s my grandfather’s Country. When I paint it makes me feel right.” – Robina Clause Kaalpa is a place of great cultural significance, is also referred to as Well 23 on the Canning Stock 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…
Kaalpa (Well 23) “Kaalpa is my grandfather ngurra (home) where they walked, hunting bush tuckers. I went there for the first time this year [2018] on a Martumili KJ (Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa) trip. I went hunting there, got a parnajalpa (sand goanna). When I Read more…