Untitled – Landscape Aerial “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 Read more…
Pulikati Hill “This is our father’s ngurra (home Country, camp). We slept here in this area, near to Wartararra hill, but you can’t go through there. Lot of snake around there. This one Pulikati hill, we used to go through a gap here. There is a quicksand there, people don’t Read more…
Kintyre “We are Warnman ladies, painting Kintyre and Karlamilyi (Rudall River region). We can share this Country. [Kintyre] belongs to Pulikati [Hill], ngurra (home Country, camp) for my sister and all the Warnman families. My fathers and brothers and husbands, my sister they was there, 200 peoples was there [in Read more…
Waterhole “All the girls in Newman took me there to this place, my grandfathers country. There are four rock holes near the lake near Cotton Creek (Parnngurr) way.” – Mary Rowlands This work depicts a waterhole within the artists’ ngurra (home Country, camp), typically represented with circular forms. Waterholes are 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…
Untitled “I paint these stories about gathering and hunting in saltwater Country; String rays, turtles, fish. Bidyadanga that’s my home, i feel free camping and going out bush, swimming, gathering oysters, mud-worms and hermit crabs.” – Colleen Jadai Coleen paints salt water cCuntry and dream time stories, all the stories Read more…
Parnpajinya “We used to camp here before, in Parnpajinya. See these brown hills? This is where I been camping right there with no house, nothing. These two hills are Mount Whaleback. See the two orange ovals? That’s where the Dreamtime death adders used to sleep. There was a man snake Read more…
Puntawarri “All around is sandhills and lakes on every side. You can see the grass, but the lakes are all dry. In the middle is Puntawarri waterhole. That’s the jila (snake) place, two jila. They nyupa (spouses), they darlings, man and woman. They sleeping near to Puntawarri. It’s a hole Read more…
Ngurra (home country, camp) This work portrays an area known intimately to the artist, painted here in exquisite detail from memory. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) era one’s survival depended on their intimate knowledge of the location of resources; thus physical elements of Country, such as sources of kapi Read more…