Jessie Pula Luck – Atyenh Artna Arnernp (My Bush Medicine) I was born in Irrultja, my father’s country. I paint therrpeyt, a plant with red and pink flowers, it is my family symbol. You can suck the flowers to get a sweet honey from. You can wash your body with Read more…
Sevania Kemarre Bonney – Atyenh Amer Areyel Amper (My View of Country) Sevania was born in Soapy Bore, Utopia and started to paint when she was teenager. She learnt the way to paint landscape and bush medicine from her mother Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney and grandmother Eileen Kemarre Bonney, a former Read more…
Robina Pitjara Jones – Atyenh Amper (My Country) This is my country out in Utopia an outstation called Soapy Bore it’s my Father’s country, there’s big soakage, hills, bush medicine and bush tucker. All my family paint, my grandmother, my mother and aunties. I like to paint, I think about my Read more…
Diane Kemarre Ross – Atyenh Amper (My Country) This is my country, it’s the country around Irrultja. This is where we like to go after big rain. After big rain there, we can go swimming. There is always good hunting on my country. It is good for me to paint Read more…
Lilly Kemarre Morton – Antarrengeny, My Country Lilly has painted her country, Antarrengeny. The brightly coloured flowers and small bushes are bush medicine and are still used within the community. Lilly’s landscapes beautifully communicate the rich knowledge she possesses of both medicinal plants and country, the heart of her culture. Read more…
Lucy Ngwarraye Morton – Artna Alpeyt (Bush Flowers) These bush flowers grow seasonally in Alyawarr country, some of which are also used in bush medicine remedies. When I go out hunting, I like to see all the bush flowers that are flowering and then when I come back, I paint Read more…
Minnie Ngwarraye Morton – Artna Alpeyt (Bush Flowers) Minnie is the daughter of Annie Kemarre, her joyous, colourful, patterned paintings depict local bush medicine and bush flower plants and are distinctly her own style
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.
Kindy Kemarre Ross – Irrultja is My Country My country is called Irrultja, it’s past the hill and the dried-up creek from here, it’s a nice place, my dad’s country too, and my Mum’s country is here in Ampilatwatja. When I go to see my country, we always go to Read more…
Kathleen Nanima Rambler – Storm at Barrow Creek The storm clouds are coming over the bushland at Barrow Creek which is my Father’s country. It is very hot and dry over summer, then the rains come, it make the bush fresh, and the bush turkeys are fat. It is my Read more…