Banana Springs “This story is about Banana Spring near Texas Down Station. My mum and Dad and the families from Texas Downs Station used to go out for the hunting and fishing. And also camping out. They used to call it dinner camp, because there they would always tell stories Read more…
Bow River – Blowfly Dreaming My parents were digging for Porcupine but the hairy man didn’t let them have it. He started all the blowflies to hunt them both away. So they left, leaving the Porcupine there, and when they got home, the old people told them that’s the Ngoongoony Read more…
Holiday Camp – Lorraine Daylight Lorraine Daylight has painted her father’s country. Daylight’s father is senior Warmun artist Gordon Barney. ‘Holiday camp,’ Gordon Barney says. ‘Walkabout every holiday catching kangaroo, porcupine, goanna – all sorts.’ Barney worked as a stockman on Alice Downs station as a young man. In the Read more…
Warlawoon – Kathy Ramsay This painting is about the Warlawoon Country – my dad Rammie Ramsay country, my beautiful old artist dad who left his memory with me to carry on after him. In most of Kathy’s depiction of her father’s country would usually include circular shapes as well as Read more…
Bailinyin – Eileen Bray Joomena The painting is of the country of Spring Vale Station, Bailinyin. Recently, in the wet season, Rusty traveled to this place with his grandchildren. There they were shown how to catch and kill a goanna, they learnt new Gija words, they learnt about Rusty’s life Read more…
Gilbunj Country- Violet Vally/Mabel Downs Gilbunj country (MABEL DOWNS) My Grandfather Country, My Mother’s- Shirley Purdie Birth Place.
Ngaginyji Joomooloony- ‘My boab tree’ by Eileen Bray This painting is about Joomena’s Ngaginyji Joomooloony, her boab tree. “The boab tree we are born under becomes our special tree; this one is Ngaginyji Joomooloony, which means ‘My Boabtree’” Eileen Bray Joomena was born on the side of a dusty highway Read more…
Birnoo Crocodile and Goanna Ngarrangarni This painting is dreamtime story my father- Gordon Barney has passed on to me and share the story here; ‘That’s an Alice Down Story, that’s Alice Down Hills, true story. That two hill on top of the hill again, and the thing like a flat, Read more…
Young boy seeking ground sugar bag by Madeline Purdie “This is a story about a young boy seeking ground sugar bag. All my elders were out looking for ground sugar bag near the Mabel down hill, they been looking all day they were all weak and tired from digging in Read more…
Roogoon (Crocodile Hole) by Thlema Thomas ‘This la bottom side of Roogoon [Crocodile Hole]. This good country that. That’s the water- the black painted parts. You can’t swim there, too many crocodiles and that snake, but it’s a beautiful place to go.’ This gorge at Crocodile Hole is a very Read more…