Sabrina Pitjara Morton I love to look at the land and bush leaves. My mother paints, her name is Lucy Pula Luck and my Aunties Bevery Pula Luck, Jessie Pula Luck and Juliet Ngwarraye Morton all paint, they are great painters and I want to paint with them and learn. Bush Read more…
Valerie Kemarre Lewis – My Mothers Country My mothers country is flowers, trees and mountains. I love to paint them. We see springs, the water from the springs is like rainwater, fresh and clean. We hunt goanna and turkeys, we roast them in the fire and the flesh is strong and Read more…
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 Read more…
Louise Pula Luck – Artna Alpeyt (Bush Flowers) 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 to see all the bush flowers that are flowering and then when I come back, I paint Read more…
Julieanne Ngwarraye Morton – Atyenh Amper (My Country) My Bush Medicine My Mother, Lilly Kemarre, taught me to paint. She likes to paint her Mother’s and Father’s country from the old days, when they used to live off of the land. The landscape changes during the different seasons in the Read more…
Lacardia Pula Morton – Artna Alpeyt (Bush Flowers) These bush flowers grow seasonally in Alyawarr country, some of which are also used in bush medicine remedies. When I go out hunting, I like to see all the bush flowers that are flowering and then when I come back, I paint Read more…
Susan Ngwarraye Philomac – Spring Creek Kwetyaylp (donkeys) and nantew (horses) would come and drink from the water at Spring Creek on my father’s country. We would put a bucket in the sand we would filter the water so we could drink it. When I was young girl we would Read more…
Joyrene Ngwarraye Holmes – Ateralth Alpeyt (Wildflowers) When I go hunting for aker arlkerl (echidna) around the sandhills of Ampilatwatja I always spot the wild flowers and honey flowers. We tap the Bankias against our hand and get the honey, it is sweet to taste. After the rain and bushfires all Read more…
Eileen Kemarre Bonney – Tijamburra, My Mothers Country This is my mothers country, Tijamburra, we go hunting there for wild onions, goannas, echidnas and sugarbag honey in the trees. I like to hunt there, there’s water all year round. Even if it doesn’t look like there is, we follow the Read more…
Colleen Ngwarraye Morton – Awenhenheng (Old Lady with Nephews) Awenhenheng (old lady with nephew’s). The old lady is walking with her nephew’s Alura [sic] and Artija [sic] to find soakage (where to find water). They find the soakage has dried up and they have no water, so they have to Read more…