Artists of Ampilatwatja

Selina Pula Teece – Arrweneng (Passion Flower) Wild Passion fruit grow on our country Antarrengenye (unda ra ninya). Bush Passion flower comes after the rain on our land.  We gather these once the fruit is ready.

Colleen Ngwarraye Morton – Altywart When I was a little girl I would go and collect the seed from the altywart grass with my grandmothers.  They would teach us how to hang on to the tree and grind the seeds with our feet.  We would carry the seed in our Read more…

Colleen Ngwarraye Morton – Altywart When I was a little girl I would go and collect the seed from the altywart grass with my grandmothers.  They would teach us how to hang on to the tree and grind the seeds with our feet.  We would carry the seed in our Read more…

Dakota Ngwarraye Petrick – Mwanyen (Bush Tomatoe) My twin sister Latoya and myself have just started painting bush flowers.  Our grandmother Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney shows us the good way. This is the first time I have ever printed using a lino carving.  I did the Mwanyen (bush tomatoe) plant because Read more…

Dakota Ngwarraye Petrick – Mwanyen (Bush Tomatoe) My twin sister Latoya and myself have just started painting bush flowers.  Our grandmother Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney shows us the good way. This is the first time I have ever printed using a lino carving.  I did the Mwanyen (bush tomatoe) plant because Read more…

Dakota Ngwarraye Petrick – Mwanyen (Bush Tomatoe) My twin sister Latoya and myself have just started painting bush flowers.  Our grandmother Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney shows us the good way. This is the first time I have ever printed using a lino carving.  I did the Mwanyen (bush tomatoe) plant because Read more…

Latoya Ngwarraye Petrick – Atwakey (wild orange) “I have just started painting, my grandmother Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney has been teaching me, she tells me all about the bush Flowers. This is the first time I have ever printed a lino carving, this is the Atwakey (wild orange).  

Joyanne Pitjara Morton – Bush Medicine “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 Read more…

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…

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…