WARINGARRI ABORIGINAL ARTS
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Wandjina are ancestral spirits who created country, people and animals in the North West Kimberley before turning themselves into rock paintings. They are sometimes called “lightning man” or “rain maker’ and every year they replenish water holes, creeks and rivers Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Untitled Depicted in this work are animals hunted for bush tucker, their habitats, and different hunting methods. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) period, Martu would traverse very large distances annually in small family groups, moving seasonally from water source Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Kulyakartu Kulyakartu; an area in the far north of the Martu homelands, near the Percival Lakes in the northern Great Sandy Desert. The artist’s elders have extensive knowledge of the Country in this region, where they grew up living traditionally Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Kulyakartu Kulyakartu; an area in the far north of the Martu homelands, near the Percival Lakes in the northern Great Sandy Desert. The artist’s elders have extensive knowledge of the Country in this region, where they grew up living traditionally Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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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…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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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…
Wangaba Roebourne Art Group
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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…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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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…
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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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…