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 – Robina Pitjara Jones 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 country, the Read more…
Bush Medicine Plants “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 are out hunting. Different kinds of plants Read more…
My Mothers Country – Eileen Bonney The community of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint ‘altyerr’ dreaming stories. The artists paint their country where those stories sit. Eileen has painted ‘Tijamburra’, her mothers country. “This is my mothers country, we go hunting there for wild onions, goannas, echidnas Read more…
My Country Antarrengeny – Lilly Morton Kemarre The community of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint ‘altyerr’ dreaming stories. The artists paint their country where those stories sit. Lilly has painted her country, Antarrengeny. The brightly coloured flowers and small bushes are bush medicine and are still used Read more…
Bush Flowers The artists of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint ‘altyerr’ dreaming stories. The artists paint their country where those stories sit. These bush flowers grow seasonly in Alyawarr country, some of which are also used in bush medicine remedies. “When I go out hunting, I like Read more…
My Grandmothers Country-Elizabeth Ngwarra Bonney 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. Painting my Read more…
My Grandmothers Country – Denise Ngwarraye Bonney 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…
Stock Camp – Kelvin Kemarre Ladd I like country music, and stock camp paintings, my paintings are all about those stock camp life, the horses, cattle, dogs and the music, I listen and play country today. It’s the life that I grew up around in a stock camp. I used Read more…
Stock Camp – Kelvin Kemarre Ladd I like country music, and stock camp paintings, my paintings are all about those stock camp life, the horses, cattle, dogs and the music, I listen and play country today. It’s the life that I grew up around in a stock camp. I used Read more…