“Untitled”
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Nyuju Stumpy Brown
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8813SB; Acrylic on canvas
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Paintings
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122cm x 76cm
“My paintings are about my country, my mother’s country and my father’s country.
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“My paintings are about my country, my mother’s country and my father’s country. We lived in the desert country (the Great Sandy Desert). I paint the waterholes and bush tucker found at those waterholes. We were living on bush tucker in the desert, on bush tucker only. I paint about the time before we knew kartiya.”
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“Bow River Country”
by
Freddie Timms
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FT29/50; Aquatint etching with blind emboss and chine collé
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Limited Edition Prints
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50cm x 50cm (Image)
This print depicts an event from the artists life. This print shows Bow River ru
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This print depicts an event from the artists life. This print shows Bow River running from top to bottom with Mule Creek running into it from the side. In the centre of the work is an important waterhole called Goorragagoora, the place of the storm bird or Channel Billed Cuckoo. When the artist was a boy, his parents were working at Bow River Station. During the wet season there was trouble between the European managers of Bow River and the managers of the neighbouring station Lissadell.
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“Whale Spirit”
by
Rusiate Lali
- Catalog Number
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9737RB; Acrylic on canvas
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Paintings
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76cm x 76cm
In this painting, Rusiate combines elements of the earth and the sea with the ov
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In this painting, Rusiate combines elements of the earth and the sea with the overall subject matter of caring for our world we inhabit and acknowledging that all species are interconnected. Mother Nature reaches out in many ways. A human child is growing inside a large whale with human limbs, as does the large lizard underneath.
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“Pirlinyanu”
by
Julie Nangala Robinson
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PRINTJR-01; Limited Edition Etching
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Limited Edition Prints
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59cm x 45cm
Julie depicts her Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - associated with her father’s
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Julie depicts her Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - associated with her father’s traditional country of Pirlinyanu, a rocky outcrop in the Tanami Desert, west of Yuendumu and towards the WA border. This rocky country with its significant waterholes and plentiful bush tucker is one of many significant locations for the Water Dreaming - if you know which rocks to move you always have access to fresh water in the deep natural occurring wells of Pirlinyanu. Without this knowledge one could imagine there was no water in this desert landscape.
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“Man in the Desert”
by
Jimmy Pike
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JP67/80; Screenprint
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Limited Edition Prints
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30cm x 44cm
Born in 1940, Jimmy Pike started his early years in the Great Sandy Desert regio
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Born in 1940, Jimmy Pike started his early years in the Great Sandy Desert region of WA, living a traditional nomadic life moving around various waterholes, participating in ceremonies, learning hunting techniques and understanding seasonal bush foods. His people are the Walmajarri, being some of the last to leave the desert country region which influence and inspire his work as an artist. The centre of this limited edition screen print symbolizes a waterhole around which a man is camped. The waterhole is surrounded by desert oak trees and sandhills.
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“Tingari events at Lake MacKay”
by
Walala Tjapaltjarri
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WDed50WT; Northern Editions
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Limited Edition Prints
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51cm x 73cm; Paper size: 121cm x 56cm
In this beautifully subtle white work, the subject is associated with a Jukurrpa
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In this beautifully subtle white work, the subject is associated with a Jukurrpa (Dreaming) event in the Tingari Cycle, which is related to the site of Wilkinkarra (the great salt lake of Lake Mackay) in Western Australia where Walala and his family lived a traditional lifestyle until 1984. The quiet intensity of Tjapaltjarri’s rectangular forms seem to have a life of their own, creating movement not only up and down but through the entirety of the screenprint.
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“Untitled”
by
Nura Rupert
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ERN-NR001-3; Screenprint
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Limited Edition Prints
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33cm x 25cm
Nura Rupert is a senior artist at Ernabella Arts. Her birth place was Tjitapiti,
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Nura Rupert is a senior artist at Ernabella Arts. Her birth place was Tjitapiti, near Angatja, South Australia. Her family led a traditional nomadic lifestyle, until they settled at Ernabella, which was a Presbyterian mission. It was here she learnt her craft. Best known for her depictions of mamu (spirits) from traditional Pitjantjatjara stories told to children to make them stay away from trouble, her designs depicted stories from her childhood. She also did images of children, dogs, rabbits, emus and other creatures.
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“Salt on Mina Mina”
by
Dorothy Napangardi
- Catalog Number
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DN-14; Sugar lift aquatint with gampi paper chine collé
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Limited Edition Prints
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46cm x 59cm
Topographically, the sacred site of Mina Mina is made up of two enormous soakage
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Topographically, the sacred site of Mina Mina is made up of two enormous soakage areas that, rarely filled with water, exist as clay-pans. As water soaks into the ground small areas of earth dry out and lift at the edges, becoming delineated by salt. In this striking design of white dotting Dorothy depicts the crustations of salt stretching infinitely onward, etched by the tracks of the women as their paths stretch on, crossing and merging; telling their stories.
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“Changing World”
by
Rusiate Lali
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10340RB
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Paintings
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152cm x 91cm
Turukawa, representing the Spirit, the land and identity, watches over us, remin
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Turukawa, representing the Spirit, the land and identity, watches over us, reminding us not to forget where we come from and to continue to respect traditional values even when located in a more contemporary context. In this work the artist’s story is very hopeful and evolves in a counter clockwise direction from the clashing images at the bottom of the painting all the way around to the newly built constructions at the centre conveying the evolution of our consciousness from the disharmony and confusion of today’s troubled world into a more peaceful and harmonious world.
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“Tiwi Motif II”
by
Freda Warlapinnii
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FW32 / 75; Limited Edition Screenprint
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Limited Edition Prints
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62cm x 42cm
The traditional designs used in painting and printmaking are based primarily on
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The traditional designs used in painting and printmaking are based primarily on body paint design. The Tiwi creation story explains how the land that forms the islands was separated from the mainland, and in turn divided into the two islands. Tiwi culture is an oral culture, and unlike many other indigenous communities Tiwi does not have traditional representations of animals and spirits. Freda was a senior law person with a strong interest in maintaining culture.
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“River and Palm Trees”
by
Sonia Kurarra
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14306SK; Acrylic on canvas
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Paintings
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107cm x 76cm
Sonia has painted the river country which she played as a child at Yungngora (No
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Sonia has painted the river country which she played as a child at Yungngora (Noonkanbah) near Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia which is surrounded palm trees which reflect in the water. The dreaming for this Sandy Billabong country is Nangurra, a snake that lives in the billabong which hold a plentiful supply of fish.
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“Wardapi Jukurrpa (Goanna Dreaming)”
by
Tess Napaljarri Ross
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13072TR; Acrylic on canvas
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Paintings
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76cm x 61cm
This Wardapi Jukurrpa (Goanna Dreaming) tells the story of a group of Karnta wom
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This Wardapi Jukurrpa (Goanna Dreaming) tells the story of a group of Karnta women that were sitting down in a circle. A man named Wamaru from Mt Theo of the Japangardi skin, came to the women. He took a girl of the wrong skin, a Nungarrayi woman named Yurlkurinyi, and they went up the hill and made love. The earth turned to Ngunjungunju (yellow and white ochre). The man turned himself and all the ‘karnta’ (women) into ‘wardapi’ (goannas). The ochre is still found on top of the hill. Today it is used for love magic and ceremonial decoration.
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