Julieanne Ngwarraye Morton – Atyenh Amper (My Country) My Bush Medicine My Mother, Lilly Kemarre, taught me to paint. She likes to paint her Mother’s and Father’s country from the old days, when they used to live off of the land. The landscape changes during the different seasons in the Read more…
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.
Susan Ngwarraye Philomac – Spring Creek Donkeys and horses would come and drink from the water at Spring Creek on my father’s country. We would put a bucket in the sand we would filter the water so we could drink it. When I was young girl we would go to Read more…
Selina Pula Teece – Arrweneng (Passion Flower) Wild Passion fruit grow on our country Antarrengenye (unda ra ninya). Bush Passion flower comes after the rain on our land. We gather these once the fruit is ready.
Colleen Ngwarraye Morton – Altywart When I was a little girl I would go and collect the seed from the altywart grass with my grandmothers. They would teach us how to hang on to the tree and grind the seeds with our feet. We would carry the seed in our Read more…
Colleen Ngwarraye Morton – Altywart When I was a little girl I would go and collect the seed from the altywart grass with my grandmothers. They would teach us how to hang on to the tree and grind the seeds with our feet. We would carry the seed in our Read more…
Dakota Ngwarraye Petrick – Mwanyen (Bush Tomatoe) My twin sister Latoya and myself have just started painting bush flowers. Our grandmother Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney shows us the good way. This is the first time I have ever printed using a lino carving. I did the Mwanyen (bush tomatoe) plant because Read more…
Dakota Ngwarraye Petrick – Mwanyen (Bush Tomatoe) My twin sister Latoya and myself have just started painting bush flowers. Our grandmother Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney shows us the good way. This is the first time I have ever printed using a lino carving. I did the Mwanyen (bush tomatoe) plant because Read more…
Dakota Ngwarraye Petrick – Mwanyen (Bush Tomatoe) My twin sister Latoya and myself have just started painting bush flowers. Our grandmother Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney shows us the good way. This is the first time I have ever printed using a lino carving. I did the Mwanyen (bush tomatoe) plant because Read more…
Latoya Ngwarraye Petrick – Atwakey (wild orange) “I have just started painting, my grandmother Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney has been teaching me, she tells me all about the bush Flowers. This is the first time I have ever printed a lino carving, this is the Atwakey (wild orange).