Status: Stock White Gum Tree The red sap is good medicine to treat skin sores. It is crushed and boiled in water to make it soft, then rubbed on the sore to help with healing. It is also mixed with ochre for painting. The wood is good for fires and Read more…
Status: Stock Goordim Emerging artist Cathy Ward learns from her culture and country from her grandmother Peggy Griffiths. In this painting she paints Goordim. Jinamoom, the Keep River flows through the painting and is joined by small tributaries. The hill on the left is Goordim, Butterfly Dreaming. The hill to Read more…
Status: Stock Lonely Desert Happy Spirit My Grandparents when they left their homeland in the desert they never seen their country home again for a long time and when they came back to see their homeland they were happy and proud to have returned
Status: Stock Minnie Lumai Silk Paj This painting relates a key Ngarranggarni (dreaming) story for the Miriwoong and Gadjerriwoong peoples for the ownership of country around Kununurra and to the east in a place called Yab-yabbe-geni-nim The plains kangaroo (Jarlangarnang) was a Miriwoong man and the hill kangaroo (Nyangood) was Read more…
Status: Stock History Beneath the Beauty Woorrilbem holds a history. A blast from my grandmother’s past as a child she went to this billabong to collect the lily flowers, its bulb, mussels and other edible bush food to take back to her family. One particular day on a usual walk Read more…
Status: Stock Night Herons Our ancestors did paintings in caves that show these animals. The Night Herons cry at night to keep warm. The round circles are the eggs. Wungurr is the water snake that is the protector of the river and creeks so they won’t get dry. The dots Read more…
Status: Stock History Beneath the Beauty Woorrilbem holds a history. A blast from my grandmother’s past as a child she went to this billabong to collect the lily flowers, its bulb, mussels and other edible bush food to take back to her family. One particular day on a usual walk Read more…
Ladju (Witchetty Grub) This a the ladju that we eat from the tree. We cut it out of a gum tree and you can cook it or eat it raw.
Luga – Cracked mud Kittey has depicted the drying and cracked mud of her mother’s country along the Sturt River. She describes the area where she visited as a child along the banks and waterholes by the river as black soil country.“When we were young, my sisters and cousins would Read more…
Jillynbeng In this artwork Peggy has depicted a bush tucker known as Jilinybeng or “bush cucumber”. This plant grows as a vine and you have to search for it amongst the grasses. Typical of the artist’s recent work the background is flecked with strokes of paint representing the spinifex and Read more…