Wyatt collecting fresh mussell This painting is inspired by my son Wyatt who likes to look for the freshwater mussels when we are down at the river. They are buried in the sand. We cook them up and they are good to eat.Wyatt Collecting Freshwater Mussels
TURTLE NESTING/LAYING EGG This Perspex painting is about when turtle (Goorlil) are making nest up on the coastal beaches where they come and lay their eggs to hatch and grow. Also some of my people normally hunt Turtle (Goorlil) and eat the eggs. We dig the sand up and collect Read more…
Baby Stingrays Feeding This perspex is about when the baby stingrays jinup are born and are learning to feed and swim around in the ocean bed. Jinup is also my totem I cannot kill or eat it or I will get sick.
Main Waterholes THESE ARE THE WATERHOLES OUT IN THE DESERTTHE BIG ONE IN THE MIDDLE IS .AIN WATERHOLE AND LITTLES ONES ARE SALT LAKES WITH SANDHILLS
Piyalpiyal This fish is called Piyalpiyal (swordfish), we catch them along the Fitzroy River its also my father’s totem
Dugongs Feeding Some of us saltwater people hunt dugong during full moon time. It’s a favourite tucker to eat. Dugongs eat seaweed and sea grasses off the sea bed.
SPANISH FLAG This painting is about the spanish flag fish its a reef fish and is really good eating its a beautiful fish with stripes colours of silver, yellow and black also jellyfish is in paintings i come from saltwater country so i like to paint saltwater animals.
Gogo Station This is about Gogo station on the old road. When I was young we were living there. We used to collect the coloured rocks from the hills, all different colours. Our mothers too and parents collected stones. We would gift it to our teachers and people as a Read more…
All the Waterholes People have been walking between these waterholes visiting the places.In the middle is living water.
