Denise Ngwarraye Bonney – Tijamburra, My Grandmothers Country This is my Mothers Mothers country, out near Canteen Creek, we go hunting for wild onions, goannas, echidnas and sugar bag honey in the trees. I like to hunt in my country, there is water all year round even if it looks Read more…
Gunderson Kemarre Lewis – Atyenh Anyany Amper (Great Grandmothers Country) I paint my Great Grandmothers country around Canteen Creek. Long time ago she hunted around this soakage in this country. When I paint, I paint that country, the soakage the bushflowers the sandhills and the distant mountains. I hunt this Read more…
Vicky Pula Holmes – Atyenh Amey Amper (My Mothers Country) Ampilatwatja is my Mothers Country, I come from a long line of artists. My family still traditionally hunt and gather, I share my love for the land, plants, flowers and trees, with my children and grandchildren. My paintings are inspired by Read more…
Sandra Pula Teece – Atyenh Artna Arnernp (My Bush Medicine) 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 (Acacia plants) and aywert (spinifex grass).
Kiara Pula Ladd – Apmer (Land) I am new to painting. I am a singer and I love to perform, I have a music video. My mum Robina Pitjara Jones and my dad Kelvin Kemarre Ladd are both great painters, and my dad is a singer too. I really like Read more…
Joyanne Pitjara Morton – Atyenh Artna Arnernp (My Bush Medicine) “Bush medicine plants are used for healing on the body and for drinking. We make this by grinding the plants with a rock, we use the juice and the fibre of the plant. We collect bush medicine plants when we Read more…
Eileen Kemarre Bonney – Tijamburra, My Mothers Country This is my mothers country, Tijamburra, we go hunting there for wild onions, goannas, echidnas and sugarbag honey in the trees. I like to hunt there, there’s water all year round. Even if it doesn’t look like there is, we follow the 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…
Beverly Pula Luck – Atyenh Amey Amper (My Mother’s Country) Beverly paints her Mother’s country. When Beverly was a child her mother took her all around her country and showed her the bush medicine and bush tucker. The knowledge of the bush plants has been handed down through generation to generation and Read more…
Lulu Pitjara Teece – Arrethe, Drinking Bush Medicine Arrethe is the bush medicine I brew to make teas. This was taught to me by my Grandmother Molly. I teach my children and my grandchildren how to brew this tea to make them strong and keep our culture strong. This tea is Read more…