Coiled Basket – Basket set of 3 Our artists create coiled baskets using a variety of materials including native grasses, natural and synthetic dyes, feathers and commercially produced raffia. The baskets vary in size and shape. Each one is unique. Kaiela Arts provide an important space for local Aboriginal artists and Read more…
Gathering food and water Memories told to me by elders of the hardship of pulling the water up to the bank by a single bucket which was on the pully.
Crossing the Murray Our people crossing the Murray river by boat from Cummera to Victoria to escape from appalling treatment of our people.
Stories by Campfire Our people love to sit around a campfire telling stories told and handed down from mainly the elders.
Gurranyin Ghow (the Whistling Kyte Swamp) This painting represents the Whistling Kyte’s of Glow Swamp: the old ancestors of Ghow Swamp located in Gunbower, the eagles and hawks are the clever men or Magie Men of lore and country. The landscape is covered with raak crosshating patterns that commemorate uncle Read more…
Ganawa Djibauga Ganawa Djibauga “today you go through lore”. This painting represents the start of “Becoming a Man” and being selected for initiation from elders. The old people would sit and wait and watch you to see if you were ready for “Lore” to become a “Man”. The diamonds are Read more…
Determined Big yabby has tunnelled into the mud, hiding away during the Winter. Old Cod sniffs him out and is determined for a feed. He is too smart for big yabby. He will wait for him to surface a limb and take it from him.
