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Status: Stock Papulankutja Artists This painting is of a popular tjukurrpa story of seven sisters being chased through the desert by one cheeky, lusty man, Wati Nyiru. Many things happen to these women as they travel through country. Eventually they rise up into the sky and form the Peliades, a Read more…

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Status: Stock Papulankutja Artists Our Chris bag is practical, easy to use and strong. It’s a versatile unisex messenger bag with external pockets (in feature fabric) 

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Maime Butler’s Parrupi Nganunrti Jurkurrpa This is Maime Butler birth place. It is part of the story of that Turkey that came all the way from Walutjarra Once in the time, when the turkey people lived in the Blackstone area the people had no fire. While all the people shivered Read more…

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Rosie – Winboll Rockhole Rosie paints the land that birthed her: the sacred Winboll Rockhole, a place cradled on the far western side of Mantamaru (Jameson) a place where ancient waters sleep beneath the earth and stories from time immemorial breathe through the stones. Rosie brings to life the rhythm Read more…

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Maime Butler’s Parrupi Nganunrti Jurkurrpa This is Maime Butler birth place. It is part of the story of that Turkey that came all the way from Walutjarra Once in the time, when the turkey people lived in the Blackstone area the people had no fire. While all the people shivered Read more…

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Kungkarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters) – Angilyiya Mitchell ‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (The Seven Sisters or Pleaides) is significant Tjukurrpa (dreamtime). Its origins you may be familiar with in astronomy and its connection to ‘Wati Nyiru’ (Magic Man or Orion).  The roots of this dreaming stems across indigenous groups around the world. The Australian Aboriginal Read more…

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Maime Butler’s Parrupi Nganunrti Jurkurrpa This is Maime Butler birth place. It is part of the story of that Turkey that came all the way from Walutjarra Once in the time, when the turkey people lived in the Blackstone area the people had no fire. While all the people shivered Read more…

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My Fathers designs (R. Jackson) This painting shows the design of her father Reggie Jackson’s male Tjara (shields). The shapes move across the canvas and then down again the way Reggie always marked them. “This is my mark,” he would say. Katherine paints this design to carry his legacy forward. Read more…

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Kungkarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters) ‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (The Seven Sisters or Pleaides) is significant Tjukurrpa (dreamtime). Its origins you may be familiar with in astronomy and its connection to ‘Wati Nyiru’ (Magic Man or Orion).  The roots of this dreaming stems across indigenous groups around the world. The Australian Aboriginal songline is one Read more…

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‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (The Seven Sisters / Pleiades) – Angela Lyons ‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (The Seven Sisters / Pleiades) is an important Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) across the Ngaanyatjarra Lands. Many families hold knowledge for different parts of this story, and each community paints its own chapter according to Country and ancestral responsibility. Angela’s paintings focus Read more…

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