WARINGARRI ABORIGINAL ARTS

Gathering of the Gwion People These are the hunters and the dancers gathering. All sorts of tribes (Gwion people) like you see on the rock art around the Kimberley. 

Gathering of the Gwion People These are the hunters and the dancers gathering. All sorts of tribes (Gwion people) like you see on the rock art around the Kimberley. 

Status: Stock Mary Punchi Clement – Kira Kiro Country – Silk My bush name is Muljay. “My father found me” at Ngarrandhu on the turtle, that’s my totem.  Mary painted ceremony and events, dancing and hunting as well as botanical themes, not limited to plants on land, but also fresh water Read more…

Status: Stock Kittey Malarvie – Milkwater – Silk Chiffon Senior artist, Kittey Malarvie’s traditional Country is the desert landscape around Sturt Creek, south west of Kununurra and north of the Great Sandy Desert.  Layers of intersecting lines map the country along the river banks and interpret the transition of the Read more…

Status: Stock Betty Bundamurra – Kira Kiro Spirits – Silk Satin From the time of the beginning – the Dreamtime – called Lalai by Kwini people,  the Kira Kiro  have been the  guardians and assistants of the Wandjina. They are good spirits and are also traditional dancers who sing about Read more…

Status: Stock Judy Mengil Windoong This T-Shirt design is a detail from the painting “Windoong” In this painting the artist represents an area of her father’s country near Mulligan along the Bullo River in the Northern Territory. “This is my father’s country. I learnt it from the old man – Read more…

Status: Stock Warlarring White Gum Leaf -linen -Dora Griffiths Dora has designed textile based on the leaf of a white gum tree, Warlarring. Hand block printed and screen printed linen

Status: Stock Jemma Unghango – Dancing Spirits Jemma was born at Kalumburu and was brought up by the Benedictine nuns at the mission. Jemma worked in the gardens, the kitchen and bakery, and illustrated Father Anscar McPhee’s 2011 book, A hero in the night time of the Dreaming: the story of Penda Read more…

Status: Stock Ben Ward Mens S In this image senior artist Ben Ward depicts Thompson Springs, located in Yardungall Country (Dingo Springs) in the East Kimberley. Thompson Springs is a site belonging to the Eagle and the White Crane Dreaming. In this particular work a spring is depicted bubbling up Read more…