Sugar Bag Bee This handmade Sugarbag Bee sculpture is crafted from a combination of paperbark bound with black wattle bark. Internally speargrass makes up the body or stuffing, while externally the piece is finished in natural ochre sourced from long distances away. Ochre is ground, and then bonded onto the sculpture using a Read more…
Bush Rat Wood carving has always been part of Aboriginal culture and Djilpin artists continue this tradition. Men carved wood for many purposes – tools for hunting or gathering food, axes and knives for building shelters, spears and clubs for protection of their lives and territory, objects for ceremony and Read more…
Bird Wood carving has always been part of Aboriginal culture and Djilpin artists continue this tradition. Men carved wood for many purposes – tools for hunting or gathering food, axes and knives for building shelters, spears and clubs for protection of their lives and territory, objects for ceremony and to Read more…
Bird Wood carving has always been part of Aboriginal culture and Djilpin artists continue this tradition. Men carved wood for many purposes – tools for hunting or gathering food, axes and knives for building shelters, spears and clubs for protection of their lives and territory, objects for ceremony and to Read more…
Bird Wood carving has always been part of Aboriginal culture and Djilpin artists continue this tradition. Men carved wood for many purposes – tools for hunting or gathering food, axes and knives for building shelters, spears and clubs for protection of their lives and territory, objects for ceremony and to Read more…
Witchety Grub Bernadette’s painted logs are often offcuts from mako or didjeridu manufacture. Rather than wasting the pieces or relegating them to the fire, Bernadette collects these, sands them smooth and then experiments with different painting techniques. Painted using a combination of brushes; handmade traditional Jarlk grass reed brush harvested Read more…
Raark on log Bernadette’s painted logs are often offcuts from mako or didjeridu manufacture. Rather than wasting the pieces or relegating them to the fire, Bernadette collects these, sands them smooth and then experiments with different painting techniques. Painted using a combination of brushes; handmade traditional Jarlk grass reed brush Read more…
Raark on log Bernadette’s painted logs are often offcuts from mako or didjeridu manufacture. Rather than wasting the pieces or relegating them to the fire, Bernadette collects these, sands them smooth and then experiments with different painting techniques. Painted using a combination of brushes; handmade traditional Jarlk grass reed brush Read more…
Yok This yok, or bandicoot sculpture has been created from pandanus and stuffed with paperbark to keep its shape. Details such as ears and legs are crafted from beach hibiscus wood. The piece has then been finished in acrylic paints using modern paintbrushes.
mermaid, crocodile + barra This painting depicts two freshwater crocodiles, one of which is diving. On either side is a barramundi and a mermaid spirit – a culturally important story. Painting has been completed using a handmade grass reed brush called Jarlk. Raark or fine line work is in Yirritja Read more…