Sevania Kemarre Bonney – Great Grandmothers Country Shadowland My great Grandmothers Country is where we go hunting. We hunt goanna and bush turkey. We swim in the river. We look for bush banana, bush potato and wild oranges. I am inspired by the beautiful wild flowers that grow there. Being Read more…
Sevania Kemarre Bonney – Great Grandmothers Country My great Grandmothers Country is where we go hunting. We hunt goanna and bush turkey. We swim in the river. We look for bush banana, bush potato and wild oranges. I am inspired by the beautiful wild flowers that grow there. Being on Read more…
Sevania Kemarre Bonney – Great Grandmothers Country My great Grandmothers Country is where we go hunting. We hunt goanna and bush turkey. We swim in the river. We look for bush banana, bush potato and wild oranges. I am inspired by the beautiful wild flowers that grow there. Being on 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…
Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney – Bush Banana We go bush hunting and find bush banana growing everywhere! We pick them and I cook them and eat them with my family. They are nice and sweet!
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).
Maisie Petyarre Bundey – Bush Tucker 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…
Edie Kemarre Holmes – Arratherrk (bush flower) They would use the vine of this plant as rope to help carry coolamon with kids. Make like a bag and carry the kids in this. My grandmother was called Arratherrk and her sister was calle Pwelk, the leaf of the bush banana. At Read more…
Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney – Sand Goanna When the goannas run into the hole we block the front and find it through the top of the ground. We use the digging stick to hold it and we then find an d grap the tail and pull it out and then hit 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.