Jarinyanu David Downs was born in Western Australia near Lake Gregory south of The Kimberley in the Great Sandy Desert. He spoke mainly Wangkajunga and Walmajarri languages and, in his youth, followed his family’s traditional desert dwelling lifestyle. In his…
Gordon Barney was born and grew up on Alice Downs Station. His father taught him stock-work and he became known as a skilled horse-breaker and buck-jumper (rodeo rider). When Gordon worked as a stockman, he would often carry with him…
The Papunya Tula Artist’s certificate for Makinti’s painting states: This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Lupulnga, south of the Kintore Community. The Peewee (small bird) Dreaming is associated with this site. The lines in the painting…
Mawukura Jimmy Nerrimah grew up in the Great Sandy Desert at a time when traditional life was nomadic and days were spent hunting, socializing and undertaking important ceremonies to nurture the relationship with his land. He moved between the main Jilas…
Ngipi Ward AM was born around 1949 in Tjirrkaupa, near Patjarr (Karliywara), a small community in the Gibson Desert situated in remote mid eastern Western Australia, 200 kms north, by road, of Warburton. A Ngaatjatjarra speaker, Ngipi Ward AM has…
Mostly known for her dyeing, plaiting and weaving of natural fibres into baskets in far north Arnhem Land, Alma Abbakoyok’s Yawk Yawk image on bark here shows the diversity of her artistic skills.
The Papunya Tula Artists certificate for this painting states: This painting depicts designs associated with the site of Kaakuratintja (Lake MacDonald). In mythological times a large group of Tingari Men, both young and old, travelled to this site from the…
Rosie Tasman, skin name Napurrurla, was born in the mid to late 1920s, and grew up walking the traditional songlines of the Tanami Desert. Crossing the desert, following the seasonal availability of food and water, Napurrurla travelled the vast lands…
Lucy was a respected senior custodian with a vast knowledge of the waterholes in the Great Sandy Desert. She began painting in 1989, her early works followed standard Balgo methods of forming lines by means of rows of dotting and…
The Warlayirti Artists certificate associated with this painting and signed by author James Cowan, the then Manager, states that ‘This is Susie’s country and she lived in this part of the desert as a young girl with her family and…