Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)

Parnngurr – Boy in Troopie

Parnngurr – Hunting Car

Kulyakartu “Long time ago  I been there. It is my grandmothers, grandfathers, fathers, mothers country, Kulyakartu.  I am painting this particular place it keeps me connected, sense of belonging.  Tell my grandmothers story through my art.  Where she was born, I’m apart of that.  It makes me feel proud painting.  Most Read more…

Skin groups In 2019 Parnngurr school went out with KJ and Martumili where Clifton Girgiba taught the school kids about skin groups and how they relate to each other.  Each skin group was given a colour and the children then painted a circle relating to their skin group. 

Skin groups “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…

Tribal punishment “This is the Martu people drinking (top left, oval), this is them fighting those 2 people (2 rectangles top right), in the circle is the elders that man in the middle, the one from the fight, getting tribal punishment.  This is the man who died in the fight Read more…

Meeting Place “This is all the different skin groups coming together, they having a meeting about a couple that was wrong way.  The circles are the elders and the one in the middle is the couple.” – Rosetta Wilberforce

Kulyakartu “Long time ago  I been there. It is my grandmothers, grandfathers, fathers, mothers country, Kulyakartu.  I am painting this particular place it keeps me connected, sense of belonging.  Tell my grandmothers story through my art.  Where she was born, I’m apart of that.  It makes me feel proud painting.  Most Read more…

Nyurnma Martu artists paint Country in all it’s different seasonal stages. Important to Martu, and to Martu Country, is the practice of waru (fire burning); a practice that assists with hunting, regenerates growth, and encourages greater diversity in plant and animal life. When Martu Country burns, mosaic fire scars are Read more…

Waru (fire) This work depicts the practice of fire burning as it continues to be used today through the Martu homelands. Over thousands of years, as Martu travelled and hunted on foot they would burn tracts of land, using waru (fire) as a means to assist with hunting and to Read more…