Tangentyere Artists

Honey Ants This painting is about women digging for Honey Ants. They are sweet as sweet… but hard work to reach. People call them all sorts – Yerrampe, Tjupi, Agkwarle, Tjala… all one thing!

Kwerlpe Tjukurrpa This painting is about a Arrernte Wati [man] meeting an Arrernte mother and her daughters. The mother asks the Wati if he wants to marry her daughters because they are the right skin for each other. But that Wati said ‘I can’t – they are too young for me!’ Read more…

Tjintjantji to Murinji This painting shows a snake travelling from Tjitjantji to Murinji. Tjitjantji (concentric circle at the tail of the snake) is west of Kintore and there is a big hole there, lots of zebra finches and its in the desert on the other side of the snake. Murinji Read more…

Dog Dreaming, Mt Charlotte Dog Dreaming, Mt Charlotte down near Titjikala. The Hugh River runs through there. The circles are the waterholes in the middle of the riverbed. The river is really wide, but usually all dry on top, except for these special waterhole and the rocks and flowers. All Read more…

Swimming at Haasts Bluff This is a memory from Doris’s past. Doris talks of the times when she was a young girl in the bush, swimming and hunting with her friends at Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff). She talks of sand hills where the young people would wander naked looking for water, Read more…

Kungka Tjuta In this story Doris paints an assortment of important women in her life, each of them a representation and not strictly assigned to the individual. There is Doris’ two mothers, her sister and herself. In a display of their resilience they are shown surrounded by an abundance of Read more…

Alangkwe – Bush Banana Alangkwe – Bush Banana Dreaming.

Women Collecting Bush Food Women talking about collecting bush food – where the best places are and the best times, whether seasonal or dependent on rain events – All the women sit with their digging sticks and piti’s [coolamons] around the hearth to talk about these aspects of collecting bush Read more…

Kungka Inma Kungka Inma – Women’s Ceremony – all the women dancing ceremony, all painted up and dancing to the singing.

Bush Flowers Bush flowers