Linyji (claypan) This work depicts a linyji (claypan) within the artists’ ngurra (home Country, camp), typically represented with circular forms. Claypans were visited more often during the wet seasons as they filled with water. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) period, knowledge of water sources was critical for survival, and Read more…
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…
Rockhole “This is a rock hole coming- people coming this side and people coming round this side, coming to that water hole. This painting is about every rock hole in Mulialla where I used to work and we would walk and get some water from the rock holes and go Read more…
Untitled This is Dale’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…
Untitled Doreen first learned to paint alongside her mother, beginning her artistic career with Martumili Artists in March 2009 when she and the other women of Punmu painted a large collaborative artwork to raise funds for the community. Doreen is now an established artist in her own right, known for Read more…
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…