Rita Pitjara Beasley – Apwert Angketyarr (Hill Country) This place is our hunting place. I always go with my daughters and their children, I show them this place and teach them about the swampy country. We hunt for goannas, bush potato, bush tomato and after the big rain the bush 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…
Michelle Pula Holmes – Kwenkart (Mulga Fuchsia) After the rain we go and cut the bush medicine for flu. We boil it and drink it when we got the flu and a sore throat.
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…
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…
Dakota Ngwarraye Petrick – Artna Alpeyt (Bush Flowers) These bush flowers grow seasonly in Alyawarr country, some of which are also used in bush medicine remedies. My twin sister Lotoya and I have just started painting, our grandmother Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney has been teaching us, she tells us all about the bush Read more…
Maisie Petyarre Bundey – Anhelengkw (Emu) Dreaming Anhelengkw (emu) dreaming is the breast body painting depicting the story of the mother emu who runs away and leaves the father emu to look after the eggs until they hatch, he then raises the chicks. This story is passed down through Maisie’s family and celebrated Read more…
Kelvin Kemarre Ladd – Holden HQ with no bonnet I am driving my Holden HQ with no bonnet with my family. The Flying Doctor is landing on the air strip while the sun sets, its makes the sky black on the horizon. The dogs are not fighting they are just Read more…
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…
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…