Tangentyere Artists

Babies First Christmas Babies first Christmas. Laying in coolemon surrounded by native plants. Waiting for family to arrive. 

Ceremony at M’Bunghara, Maryanne Raggett Ceremony on M’Bunghara Creek. The country of M’Bunghara is depicted as a combination of creek and open desert. Maryanne’s ‘landscape’ is scattered with humpies, with people [indicated by U shapes] sitting down around fires [circles surrounded by U shapes], performing Ceremony. This Ceremony is open Read more…

Three houses in Hermannsburg ‘Three houses in Hermannsburg, family houses at Sandhill Camp. That’s like our family area at Hermannsburg. The families are sitting down outside watching tourist cars coming to Alice Springs.’

Two houses in Hermannsburg ‘Two houses in Hermannsburg, family houses at Sandhill Camp. That’s like our family area at Hermannsburg. The families are sitting down outside watching tourist cars coming to Alice Springs.’

Caterpillar Dreaming My mother and my mother’s father, my grandfather hold this one. It’s mine too. Caterpillar, Ayeperenye come up from Wingellina way to Alice Springs. He’s right there next to that traffic (Stuart Highway, Alice Springs), that rock there. Ayeperenye.

Emu dreaming Emu looking around for water. This is a Dreaming story from my father’s country, other side of Yuendumu. Past Mandarin Station, through there and other side. Emu looking round for water, they are three waterholes. I’ve painted the country side after big rain, flowers everywhere. The emu is looking for Read more…

Wardapi Jukurrpa ‘This painting is about the way women hunt Wardapi – that sand goanna. He digs holes in the dunes, makes his nest deep inside. Many of the holes all join up. Women hunt Wardapi in the dunes by digging out the holes. Sometimes cover one, and Wardapi runs Read more…

Emu dreaming Emu looking around for water. This is a Dreaming story from my father’s country, other side of Yuendumu. Past Mandarin Station, through there and other side. Emu looking round for water, they are three waterholes. I’ve painted the country side after big rain, flowers everywhere. The emu is looking for Read more…

Bush Tucker Bush Tucker – we love to collect and eat it. We talk about where to find it, when to find it, all different ones – they all got special places, and special seasons, and special relationships with each other. We talk about all of that all the time. Read more…

Yalke [ Bush Onion] Maggie Corby Maggie explains about her childhood, learning from her mother and grandmothers about collecting, cooking and eating Yalke, also called Bush Onion in the desert country west of Haasts Bluff Mission Station. ‘We are cooking fire in the bush – we are getting wire and Read more…