Jessie Pula Luck – My Bush Medicine Plants 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 the leaves 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 (Acacia plants) and aywert (spinifex grass).
Yvonne Ngwarraye Bonney – My Hunting Country Yvonne has painted her favourite hunting country after rain. “This is when the storm ants come and make the goannas nice and fat, the ground is soft for digging honey ants and it’s when the bush foods and grasses come up and grow Read more…
Kathleen Nanima Rambler – My Fathers Country I paint the country of my Father and Mother and where they grew up, near Barrow Creek. This is the painting of my Father’s country, where I grew up. When we would go hunting, we always climbed those hills. We would take the Read more…
Daisy Kemarre Turner – Irrultja, My Country I was born in Irrultja and I grew up with my mother, father and sister. My mother was the strong painter Rosie Ngwarraye Ross, and my grandmother Biddy Kemarre was a member of the Utopian Batik movement. My sister Margaret Kemarre Ross and Read more…
Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney – After the Bushfire This is the soakage (place to dig to find water) after the bushfire, made by a lightning strike. It burnt the grass down, then the rain came and the grass grows sweet and new. The kangaroos come out for the new grass, so Read more…
Bush Tucker – Maisie Petyarre Bundey;- Maisie paints the bush tucker found in her country, the area that surrounds Boundary Bore in the Utopia homelands. She paints bush plums, bush bananas, bush potatoes and bush medicine plants. The main motif which recurs often in Maisie artworks is a full coolamon. When Read more…
My Country and Bush Medicine Plants – Julieanne Ngwarraye Morton “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.” Julieanne’s painting’s are inspired by her Mother’s stories of the Read more…
Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney – My Grandmothers Country I still hunt my Grand Mothers country for goanna, bush medicine and yams. I hunt all year round, hunting and walking through the country makes me happy. When I look at the distant hills I can feel my grandmother. Bush flowers are everywhere. Read more…
Denise Ngwarraye Bonney – My Grandmothers Country The community of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint ‘altyerr’ dreaming stories. The artists paint their country where those stories belong. Denise paints ‘Tijamburra’, her Grandmothers country. “This is my Mothers Mothers country, out near Canteen Creek, we go hunting for Read more…