Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney – Penh Kwaty (After Rain)
After we have big rain the land is full of flowers and the river is full of water. This makes me happy.
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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 medicine is picked and the roots are dug up to be used.
It is important as my mother taught me this and now I teach my family.”
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Nancy Pitjara Frank – Artna Areyawarr Kwen Apwert – (Bush Medicine Under Rocks)
When I go looking for bush medicine I look around the ground and under the rocks. That is where I will find it
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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.
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Shardia Kemarre Holmes – Alpeyt Alpeyt (Flowers Blooming)
Shardia is the daughter of Julieanne Ngwarraye Morton, grandaughter of Lilly Kemarre Morton both senior artists of Ampilatwatja, Lilly was part of the Utopian Batik movement in the 1980’s and is a respected elder of the community. Her Grandfather was Banjo Pitjara Morton.
Shardia depicts her country with great joy, a style influenced by her family but with her own distinct fresh palette.
Bush flowers grow seasonally in Alyawarre country, some of which are also used in bush medicine remedies. The artists of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint altyerr (dreaming stories). The artists paint their country where those stories sit.
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Rita Pitjara Beasley – Alatyet Angketyarr (Spinifex Country)
“This is my Father’s 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 medicine is picked and the roots are dug up to be used.
It is important as my mother taught me this and now I teach my family.”
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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 medicine is picked and the roots are dug up to be used.
It is important as my mother taught me this and now I teach my family.”
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Jacinta Pula Morrison – Inap Awangk (Echidna Hunting)
The inap awangk (echidna) goes hunting, it is looking for termites around the ant hills, it makes it easy for us to find them when we look for the termite hills
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Jacinta Pula Morrison – Inap Awangk (Echidna Hunting)
The inap awangk (echidna) goes hunting, it is looking for termites around the ant hills, it makes it easy for us to find them when we look for the termite hills
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Jacinta Pula Morrison – Inap Awangk (Echidna Hunting)
The inap awangk (echidna) goes hunting, it is looking for termites around the ant hills, it makes it easy for us to find them when we look for the termite hills