Michelle Pula Holmes – My Country When I go out hunting I always like to see the colour in the trees, the light, the dark and the bush medicine plants growing on the sand hills. The colours change at sunrise and sunset. I like hunting and seeing my country. I Read more…
Leanne Teece – Anterrengeny – My Father’s Country Anterrengeny is my Father’s country. I paint the country that I come from, the beautiful landscapes and the many colours as they change during the session.
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…
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).
Rosie Ngwarraye Holmes – Desert View This is my view of the desert, the colour and the shapes after the wind has blown the sand
Nancy Pitjara Frank – Bush Flowers I was born in the bush at Ammaroo Station, along the Sandover. I have never seen the ocean or a big city. My mother and father were strong healthy people who taught me and my younger sister Rita the traditional way to hunt for Read more…
Rita Pitjara Beasley – My Father’s 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 Read more…
Alec Pula Lewis – View of Country Alec was born at McDonald Downs Station. He grew up there with his family living traditionally on the land. Alec did not attend school, he moved between different communities with his family. Knowing your country is an important part of living in a Read more…
Gunderson Kemarre Lewis – Great Grandmothers Country I paint my Great Grandmothers country around Canteen Creek. Long time ago she hunted around this soakage in this country. When I paint, I paint that country, the soakage the bushflowers the sandhills and the distant mountains. I hunt this country now.
Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney – My Homeland Tijamburra My homeland is Tijamburra, Canteen Creek, I love that country, it is my Grandmother’s country and it is the only country that I paint. It is fresh country after the rain and it is always plentiful with bush tucker and bush medicine. There Read more…