Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)

The Station Slyvania “Old station still running, cattle station near Newman – we used to go out there looking for Goanna the boss used to let us go out there, hunting.”- Noreena Kadibil

Kulyakartu “My Country, Kulyakartu. I grew up there, from little boy to big boy grew up there.”  – Muuki Taylor This painting depicts Kulyakartu, Muuki’s ngurra (home Country, camp). Kulyakartu is located in the far north of the Martu homelands, near the Percival Lakes region of Western Australia’s Great Sandy Desert. Read more…

Kulyakartu “My Country, Kulyakartu. I grew up there, from little boy to big boy grew up there.”  – Muuki Taylor This painting depicts Kulyakartu, Muuki’s ngurra (home Country, camp). Kulyakartu is located in the far north of the Martu homelands, near the Percival Lakes region of Western Australia’s Great Sandy Desert. Read more…

Kulyakartu “My Country, Kulyakartu. I grew up there, from little boy to big boy grew up there.”  – Muuki Taylor This painting depicts Kulyakartu, Muuki’s ngurra (home Country, camp). Kulyakartu is located in the far north of the Martu homelands, near the Percival Lakes region of Western Australia’s Great Sandy Desert. Read more…

Kulyakartu “My Country, Kulyakartu. I grew up there, from little boy to big boy grew up there.”  – Muuki Taylor This painting depicts Kulyakartu, Muuki’s ngurra (home Country, camp). Kulyakartu is located in the far north of the Martu homelands, near the Percival Lakes region of Western Australia’s Great Sandy Desert. Read more…

Kulyakarturu “My Country, Kulyakartu. I grew up there, from little boy to big boy grew up there.”  – Muuki Taylor This painting depicts Kulyakartu, Muuki’s ngurra (home Country, camp). Kulyakartu is located in the far north of the Martu homelands, near the Percival Lakes region of Western Australia’s Great Sandy Desert. Read more…

Untitled – Generic Helen Dale Samson This is Dale’s Country- her ‘ngurra’ (home Country, camp). People identify with their ngurra in terms of specific rights and responsibilities, and the possession of intimate knowledge of the physical and cultural properties of one’s Country. Painting ngurra, and in so doing sharing the Read more…

Mirtikanya (Mujupunkanu, Watchpoint Hill) – Helen Dale Samson “This one here is Watchpoint Hill near to Jigalong, with all the sandhills and the walyji (river gums). We got warla (lakes) there too. Jigalong is where I grew up.”  – Helen Dale Simpson Mirtikanya is a hill and claypan close to Balfour Read more…

Untitled- Generic Martumili Martumili Artists work with over three hundred artists from remote Martu Aboriginal communities, including Punmu, Parnngurr, Kunawarritji, Jigalong, Irrungadji (Nullagine), and Warralong, as well as from the Parnpajinya (Newman) gallery and studio spaces. Known for their diverse, energetic, and unmediated painting styles, their works reflect the dramatic Read more…

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