Kungka & Wati When Doris speaks about her Kungka & Wati (woman & man) paintings, she interweaves two separate stories; a memory of her family, and a story of spirits, both travelling over country. The painting depicts both of these Read more…
Pilkati anta rumiya (Snake and goanna) Snake this one, eating, here, at the water. This mob over there are stabbing it with a spear. He’s trying to bite and eat that one over there. And that over there is coming to Read more…
Four Dreamings In this work Carbiene depicts four dreaming stories which he inherited from his father. These tjukurrpa are associated with a series of waterholes running between Docker River and Kata Tjuta. Specifically, it includes four important sites: Petermann Ranges, Docker River, Kalaya Murrpu (Blood’s Read more…
Kapi Tjukurrpa This painting tells one of many water dreamings from the Papunya area. The circles represent important water or rock hole sites. The background design symbolises the landscape after the rains when the earth has been replenished with new growth. Read more…
Kapi Tjukurrpa This painting tells one of many water dreamings from the Papunya area. The circles represent important water or rock hole sites. The background design symbolises the landscape after the rains when the earth has been replenished with new growth. Read more…
Kalipinypa Tjukurrpa The painting depicts designs connected to Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) at Kalipinypa, a sacred site northwest of the Aboriginal Community of Kintore in the Central Western Desert of Australia. The Tjukurrpa tells of an important rain making ceremony Read more…
Lizzie – Karrinyarra Tjukurrpa This painting depicts designs connected to the sacred site of Karrinyarra. This is a Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) and Yalka Tjukurrpa (Bush Onion) place. The lines can represent water travelling over country and the dots represent Read more…
Simon Yungut – Tingari Simon’s paintings depict the dreaming stories and the travels of the Tingari, using the traditional concentric circle and line design. Tingari refers to the Dreaming and its Laws for the Pintupi language group of the Central Read more…
Doris Bush Papa Tjukurrpa – Nyumannu Nyunmanu is a Dingo Dreaming site just to the south east of the remote Aboriginal community of Kintore in the Northern Territory. Most of the dingoes and their pups from this place rose up Read more…
Four Dreamings – Carbiene McDonald In this work Carbiene depicts four dreaming stories which he inherited from his father. These tjukurrpa are associated with a series of waterholes running between Docker River and Kata Tjuta. Specifically, it includes four important sites: Petermann Ranges, Docker Read more…