Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Namarrkon the Lightning Spirit Namarden or Namarrkon are Eastern Kunwinjku names for the Lightning Spirit. This entity, which is responsible for lightning and thunder, is painted on both stone and bark in a form described as ‘like a grasshopper’. Namarrkon Read more…
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Kunmadj and Kunkarninj This is kunkaninj (digging stick) from my country at Kœnidjangka. Kunkaninj is used to dig yams, but is also an important Duwa moiety totemic ancestor. It shares the same songline as barlangu (shark) and wankurr (sacred Mardayin Read more…
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Burlupurr (Dilly Bag) Burlupurr, or dilly bag, is a large woven collecting basket. These large bags are often made from the vine ‘Malasia scandens’, a strong pliable plant which grows along the floor and into the canopy of monsoon vine Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Untitled “I paint these stories about gathering and hunting in saltwater Country; String rays, turtles, fish. Bidyadanga that’s my home, i feel free camping and going out bush, swimming, gathering oysters, mud-worms and hermit crabs.” – Colleen Jadai Coleen paints Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Parnpajinya “We used to camp here before, in Parnpajinya. See these brown hills? This is where I been camping right there with no house, nothing. These two hills are Mount Whaleback. See the two orange ovals? That’s where the Dreamtime Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Puntawarri “All around is sandhills and lakes on every side. You can see the grass, but the lakes are all dry. In the middle is Puntawarri waterhole. That’s the jila (snake) place, two jila. They nyupa (spouses), they darlings, man Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Ngurra (home country, camp) This work portrays an area known intimately to the artist, painted here in exquisite detail from memory. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) era one’s survival depended on their intimate knowledge of the location of resources; Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Untitled This is Kumpaya’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, and Read more…