Jina (tracks, footprints) Depicted in this work are jina (tracks, footprints), used by Martu people when tracking bush tucker. Distinctive are the jina of the marlu (kangaroo), parnajarrpa (sand goanna), kipara (bustard), karlaya (emu), jila (snake) and man, though tracks of much smaller animals and even insects are also well known Read more…
Wild Flower “When Martu paint, it’s like a map. Martu draw story on the ground and on the canvas, and all the circle and line there are the hunting areas and different waters and tracks where people used to walk, and [some you] can’t cross, like boundaries. So nowadays you Read more…
Untitled This painting depicts the artist’s country, where Mulyatingki and her sisters (and fellow artists, May Chapman and Nancy Chapman) lived and camped as children. Mulyatingki and her family walked extensively through this area with their extended family during pujiman (bush) days.
Untitled Wompi paints the Country around her homelands of Kunawarritji, a place associated with the Minyipuru Jukurrpa (Seven Sister Dreaming). In 1906, Kunawarrtiji also became a well on the Canning Stock Route, and from an early age Wompi and her family had encounters with the white men who drove cattle Read more…
Untitled This artist primarily paints her country in the Canning Stock Route area. As a younger woman the artist lived and travelled traditionally with her family during the pujiman (bush) days. They travelled up and down the Stock Route from well 33 to well 38 and as far as Balgo. Read more…
Untitled Mabel was born in the 1920s at Yirajara, which is near Jurntu Jurntu. Her parents were both Warnman people whose country encompassed Tarl and Nayijara. Mabel grew up in the pujiman (bush) way through her teens and as an adult, she walked into Jigalong Mission. She paints her ngurra Read more…
Untitled This is Mitutu’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 Jukurrpa (Dreaming) stories and physical Read more…
Port Hedland Seawater “Everybody been playing cards in the park and then the kids saw him – that shark. They got him though, he’s finished. Big one too. There is also a dingo too. The pink are the rocks, sharp fellas, and there is that white kapi (water) on the Read more…
Baby boomer tourist gets partially trampled by a camel Artwork made in collaboration with Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro
Jurtupa and Wawal “Kakarra (east) of Karlamilyi (Rudall River National Park) there is always kupi (water) I belong there, every year the spring running all the time.” Artwork made in collaboration with Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro