Status: Stock Desart Photograph – Black Magic Spiritual Man “This is a mystery healing man, walk around healing people, looking after the sick (nyanta) people. [He] comes once a full moon then disappears.” – Richard Mandijalu
Status: Stock Desart Photograph – Bush Gum “This is my sister holding bush gum. We found this in a tree near my house on the other side of the road. We collect gum all the time because it’s good for your liver and is sweet like honey.” – Montana Read more…
Status: Stock Desart Photograph – Happy Tree “This is Bumba feeling happy. He’s smart, he’s good and he’s pukurlpa (happy)” – Judith Anya Samson
Status: Stock Desart Photograph – It’s Pressure (A3) “Green everywhere – the water is coming from a pipe. Corban was swimming. It’s too hot! Corban is feeling cool from the cold water. We go here when it’s a bit hot in the car with family.” – Janita Angie Simpson
Status: Stock Desart Photograph – The Real Deal – No fake “One afternoon we went out with my jamu (grandfather). We went to the other side of Capricorn. We follow the dirt track to get the wood to make a real boomerang. We wanted to get the right wood to Read more…
Status: Stock Desart Photograph – Wantili “This is a special place for all the Martu. It’s a gathering place. This is wher my grandfather got taken away from my grandmother by the cannibal.” -Cyril Whyoulter Wantili is a large round jurnu (soak) and lyinji (claypan) near Well 25 on Read more…
Status: Stock Desart Photograph – Strong Lady Inside “This is Janita. This photo shows the dam in the background, the dam is from the mine. Strong and with pukurlpa (happy, joyful) and smiling inside her heart. Palya (good)!” – Corban Clause Williams
Status: Stock Desart Photograph – Jamu (A3) “This is Wokka, he’s my grandfather. He’s a loving and caring person and in this photo here he was so excited about Desart and taking these photos. It was taken at Martumili. He goes there every day.” – Alysha Taylor
Status: Stock Mukurtu – Nancy Chapman Poster from the 2014 MCA exhibition ‘Martu Art from the Far Western Desert’, featuring a detailed section from the collaborative Martumili Artists painting, ‘Mukurtu’, by sisters Nyanjilpayi Nancy Chapman, May Mayiwalku Chapman and Marjorie Yates. “This one Mukurtu, spring water yinta (permanent spring). Nana Read more…
Status: Stock Puntawarri, Jilakurru and Kumpupirntily Individual tablemat made in heat, stain and scratch resistant melamine with 3.2mm hardboard and cork backing, featuring the collaborative artwork ‘Puntawarri, Jilakurru and Kumpupirntily” by Martumili Artists, and grandmother and granddaughter, Dadda Samson and Judith Samson. Puntawarri, Jilakurru and Kumpupirntily are sites in Dadda’s ngurra (home country), which she has Read more…