Cyclone Tracy – Jane Tinmarie-Yalunga This is my old man’s [Rover Thomas] story about Cyclone Tracy in Darwin in 1974, two years after I was born. Rover got his joonba, Goorirr Goorirr , from this Cyclone. Out near that store [Warmun’s Wungkul store] a woman had a crash and she went Read more…
Argyle Diamond Mind Rehab This painting is about the closure of Argyle mine – the right hand side depicts the devastation caused by the site, and the left hand side depicts how we would would like it to be rehabilitated for our future generations. The current rehabilitation project started in 2020 Read more…
Kilkayi Barramundi Dreaming Three women trying to trap Dayiwul the great barramundi with spinifex nets. This is a traditional method of fishing where by nyiyirriny (river spinifex) is rolled and placed in the water forming a kind of net. Dayiwul was too clever for the women and jumped over the barrier they Read more…
Kilkayi Barramundi Dreaming Three women trying to trap Dayiwul the great barramundi with spinifex nets. This is a traditional method of fishing where by nyiyirriny (river spinifex) is rolled and placed in the water forming a kind of net. Dayiwul was too clever for the women and jumped over the barrier they Read more…
Mistake Creek Massacre – Madeline Purdie “This story what my old people told me. They told me that they were sleeping here now in this building. Old mister Radigan he as a policeman, white gardier policeman, white man. He was living in this house in the art centre (what’s known Read more…
WINUBA – EVELYN MALGIL ‘This is my family place. Hot water spring and cold water spring. That big hill on the background is my family place. That water live all year ’round. That little sand frog, it live for a long time.’ This place is the Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) site for Read more…
WINUBA – EVELYN MALGIL ‘This is my family place. Hot water spring and cold water spring. That big hill on the background is my family place. That water live all year ’round. That little sand frog, it live for a long time.’ This place is the Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) site for Read more…
Gija Skin Group This painting is about skin groups and the difficulties people are facing today in association with this matter,’ Yvonne Martin writes. ‘In the Dreamtime skin groups between men and women had a very strict law.’ These are (part 1): 1. Marry right skin. 2. Talk to right Read more…
