Status: Stock Rivers – Ms S Chiguna This garment is a collaboration between the artists at Nagula Jarndu Designs and the Saheli Women in Rajasthan, India. A social enterprise centered on traditional craft and textiles practices in Jodhpur founded to Read more…
Digging for Honey Ants This painting is depicting two women (minyma) digging for one of their favourite bush foods, Tjala or honey ants. Found in central Australia the ants construct nests in the red flat sandy soil under trees or Read more…
Kungkarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters) ‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (The Seven Sisters or Pleaides) is significant Tjukurrpa (dreamtime). Its origins you may be familiar with in astronomy and its connection to ‘Wati Nyiru’ (Magic Man or Orion). The roots of this dreaming stems across indigenous Read more…
Tjala / Honey Ants Tjala or honey ants live in nests about a metre underground beneath mulga trees, and they are a highly favoured food source. The tjala tunnels that lead down to the ants’ nests are called nyinantu, and the larvae Read more…
Wiilu – night bird This painting tells a powerful Dreamtime story from a place called Kiwilin. At Kiwilin lives Wiilu, an old woman bird. Wiilu is closely related to the turkey and holds deep wisdom. This story is set just Read more…
Proud Magpie This is our native magpie, surrounded by his meeting places. His showing it’s strength and just how majestic he can be.
The Connection The power of connection that Blackfellas have with our totems. This represents an old fella, his dreaming and being in sync with hi totem.
Platypus Sheild this painting represents the strength and resilience of our platypus. How they survive and overcome all obstacles placed in its way. The dots are its family and its journey through history.
Gumang (Magpie Geese) 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…
Sandra Pula Teece – Bush Medicine Plants This is Antarrengeny Country, sandhill country, my fathers country. After rain the sandhills are abundant with flowers, grasses and bush medicine plants. This painting depicts the landscape filled with arrwelth (Parakeelya flowers), alekw Read more…