Artists of Ampilatwatja

Leanne Pula 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.

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).

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…

Selina Pula Teece – My Fathers Country Anterrengeny is my Fathers country. I paint the country that come from, the beautiful landscapes and the many colours as they change during the season.

Selina Pula Teece – My Fathers Country Anterrengeny is my Fathers country. I paint the country that come from, the beautiful landscapes and the many colours as they change during the season.

Selina Pula Teece – My Fathers Country Anterrengeny is my Fathers country. I paint the country that come from, the beautiful landscapes and the many colours as they change during the season.

Colleen Ngwarraye Morton – Women’s Ceremony and Bush Medicine The layers of Colleen’s paintings are as detailed and complex as the stories she paints. Colleen’s painting represents a ceremony that is performed by the women in the community. It involves dance, singing and painting the body in ochre, to celebrate 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…

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…

Lulu Pitjara Teece – My Fathers Seed Dreaming Before my father died, he told me and my sister, that if we ever painted, he wanted us to paint his dreaming. His dreaming is the seed dreaming, from his country. I paint that story, it’s important. That’s why I always paint Read more…