My Country – Heather Pitjara Corbett “I like going hunting for bush tucker and bush medicine flowers. I like to see the different landscapes of this country and watch the seasons change. The landscape reminds me of my parents and my grandparents. This is where they would hunt too” – Read more…
My Fathers Country “This is my Father’s country. This country provides many bush foods for my people. Painting my country helps to keep the country very strong for current and future generations of Alyawarr people.”
My Father’s Country and Bush Medicine – Rosie Kemarre Morton The community of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint ‘altyerr’ dreaming stories. The artists paint their country where those stories sit. Rosie has painted her Father’s country, where she can always find bush tucker and bush medicine. She 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…
View of Country – Sevania Kemarre Bonney The community of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint ‘altyerr’ dreaming stories, the artists paint their country where those stories sit. Sevenia was born in Soakage Bore, Utopia and started to paint when she was teenager. She learnt the way Read more…
My Fathers Seed Dreaming – Lulu Teece “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 the Read more…
Bush Flowers – Theresa Ngwarraye Morton When I go hunting in my country I see flowers blooming everywhere, on the ground and in the trees. In cold time we make medicines out of some plants, I know where bush medicine grows.
Bush Tobacco – Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney Bush Tobacco flowers in winter and we harvest the whole plant, let it dry then burn it with white ash from the eucalyptus tree, it’s an old recipe.
My Country – Levina Pitjara Morton The community of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint ‘altyerr’ dreaming stories. The artists paint their country where those stories sit. “When I paint, I think of the stories my Grandmother Lilly tells me of how she and her family used to 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…