Kubumi Kubumi is a sacred site on the Mann River. Anniebell Marrngamarrnga is the Djungkay (ritual manager) of this place, her mother’s country. In the creation time, Ngalyod (the Rainbow Serpent) pierced the rock at a place called Bolerrhlerrh and Read more…
Joyanne Pitjara Morton – Bush Medicine “Bush medicine plants are used for healing on the body and for drinking. We make this by grinding the plants with a rock, we use the juice and the fibre of the plant. We Read more…
Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney – Penh Kwaty (After Rain) After we have big rain the land is full of flowers and the river is full of water. This makes me happy.
Rita Pitjara Beasley – Apwert Angketyarr (Hill Country) This place is our hunting place. I always go with my daughters and their children, I show them this place and teach them about the swampy country. We hunt for goannas, bush Read more…
Nancy Pitjara Frank – Artna Areyawarr Kwen Apwert – (Bush Medicine Under Rocks) When I go looking for bush medicine I look around the ground and under the rocks. That is where I will find it
Julieanne Ngwarraye Morton – Alpeyt Alpeyt (Flowers Blooming) Walking across my land to look for bush flowers and goanna. I bring home to make medicine for my family and cook the goanna for dinner. Goanna is my favourite to eat.
Shardia Kemarre Holmes – Alpeyt Alpeyt (Flowers Blooming) Shardia is the daughter of Julieanne Ngwarraye Morton, grandaughter of Lilly Kemarre Morton both senior artists of Ampilatwatja, Lilly was part of the Utopian Batik movement in the 1980’s and is a respected elder Read more…
Gununggurr (Lightning Snakes) The Yolngu people of Arnhem Land originate from a spiritual source, fixed in a particular place in their land or the sea. These ‘Spiritual Reservoirs’ are often in the form of special waterholes made by Wangarr (Creative Read more…
Wak Wak This painting depicts a sacred site at ‘Kurrurldul’, an outstation south of Maningrida. The ‘rarrk’, or abstract crosshatching, on this work represents the design for the crow totem ancestor called ‘Djimarr’. Today this being exists in the form Read more…
