Coil Basket Coil basketry is a well-established fibre art form in the Maningrida region, especially for women from the Kuninjku, Rembarrnga, Ndjebbana and Nakkara language groups. Artists make coiled baskets of many shapes and sizes, ranging from small round baskets Read more…
Coil Basket Coil basketry is a well-established fibre art form in the Maningrida region, especially for women from the Kuninjku, Rembarrnga, Ndjebbana and Nakkara language groups. Artists make coiled baskets of many shapes and sizes, ranging from small round baskets Read more…
Nawarlah – Brown River Stingray We hunt the Nawarlah (Brown River Stingray) during the wet season. There is a plant with a yellow flower that tells us that it is the right time. We know it will be fat. It Read more…
Birlmu or Namarnkorl (Barramundi) It is well known that Aboriginal art often depicts images of sacred totems or dreamings of Aboriginal culture. However, the world of the non-sacred also provides a rich source of subject matter for Aboriginal art. Much Read more…
Walu Rachel Jennings is a Warburton woman. Her sister Eunice Porter lives in Warakurna and she sometimes comes to visit her and paints for Warakurna Artists. Rachel also paints for the Warburton Arts project. This painting depicts a story from Read more…
Tjukurla Pirni Carol Maanyatja Golding was born at Walu rockhole not far from Warakurna. Carol’s father was born at Tjukurla Pirni, a number of important rockholes located between Warakurna and Wanarn. “My father was born here, I love this place Read more…
Kuluntjarra Kuluntjarra is a salt lake about twenty kilometres west of Patjarr. It was created by two men (Wati Kutjarra Tjukurrpa) who were hunting and camping at Wanaritjarra, a small but deep rockhole near the lake. The two men found Read more…
Lake Baker Neville McArthur is from Warburton and now resides at Wanarn Aged Care. This painting is about a Kunyia that travelled all the way from Kuru Alala to Lake Baker.
Tingarri Tjukurrpa George Ward Tjungurrayi was born in the desert west of Kiwirrkura in 1947. George’s painting depicts a story about Tingari men travelling through his ancestral country from rockhole to rockhole meeting other Tingari men for business Lake MacDonald Read more…
