Canning Stock Route- Our Country Work on this painting commenced at Parnngurr Community in September 2011. The canvas was rolled out and Judith Anya Samson, under Kumpaya’s instruction, painted the road and waterholes. Mid way through the waterholes being put down Kumpaya jumped in and started painting with Judith, soon Read more…
Canning Stock Route- Our Country Work on this painting commenced at Parnngurr Community in September 2011. The canvas was rolled out and Judith Anya Samson, under Kumpaya’s instruction, painted the road and waterholes. Mid way through the waterholes being put down Kumpaya jumped in and started painting with Judith, soon Read more…
Canning Stock Route- Our Country Work on this painting commenced at Parnngurr Community in September 2011. The canvas was rolled out and Judith Anya Samson, under Kumpaya’s instruction, painted the road and waterholes. Mid way through the waterholes being put down Kumpaya jumped in and started painting with Judith, soon Read more…
Canning Stock Route, Our Country Work on this painting commenced at Parnngurr Community in September 2011. The canvas was rolled out and Judith Anya Samson, under Kumpaya’s instruction, painted the road and waterholes. Mid way through the waterholes being put down Kumpaya jumped in and started painting with Judith, soon Read more…
Canning Stock Route – Our Country Work on this painting commenced at Parnngurr Community in September 2011. The canvas was rolled out and Judith Anya Samson, under Kumpaya’s instruction, painted the road and waterholes. Mid way through the waterholes being put down Kumpaya jumped in and started painting with Judith, Read more…
Minyipuru (Jakulyukulyu, Seven Sisters) The term Jukurrpa is often translated in English as the ‘dreaming’, or ‘dreamtime’. It refers generally to the period in which the world was created by ancestral beings, who assumed both human and nonhuman forms. These beings shaped what had been a formless landscape; creating waters, Read more…
Wantili (Warntili, Canning Stock Route Well 25) “Bugai always tells about Wantili (Warntili, Canning Stock Route Well 25) because she grew up around Wantili. Her family would travel between Wantili, Kaalpa, Juntu-juntu, Raarki, and Wuranu Wells along the Canning Stock Route. She paints around Wantili. She saw whitefellas there for Read more…
Niminjarra “Niminjarra is the two brothers transforming into a snake so they can go back home to Ngayartakujarra (Lake Dora). They were in training for ceremony, those two brothers, but they were kept too long and nobody was there to release them. They waited then they decided to transform into snakes Read more…
Ngurra (home Country) “Painting the ngurra (home Country, camp), [we] do it to remember [our] connections to ngurra.” – Kumpaya Girgirba The Western Desert term ‘ngurra’ is hugely versatile in application. Broadly denoting birthplace and belonging, ngurra can refer to a body of water, a camp site, a large area Read more…
