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…
The older brother of Patrick Tjungurrayi and Elizabeth Nyumi, Brandy walked to old Balgo mission as a young man after the helicopter took his young cousin-brother to Balgo. He returned to collect his family and brought them back to Billiluna…
Referring to the image below in Palya Art’s online gallery, depicting Mary on her way to heaven
Warmun Art Centre in East Kimberley states: “Shirley Purdie has been painting for more than twenty years and is an artist of increasing significance and seniority. Her cultural knowledge and artistic skill complement each other to produce a practice that…
Peter was born in 1939 at Newry Station and lived there until 1989 when he moved to Ivanhoe Station near Kununurra. He picked cotton while he lived around Kununurra and also worked as a builder’s labourer while the township of…
Maningrida Arts & Culture write on their website 2025 “Works in fibre from the Maningrida region are widely recognised as some of the finest in Australia. Artists confidently push the boundaries of fibre craft and cultural expression, adapting traditional techniques…
Rosie’s baskets have been included in various weaving exhibtions and art touring shows such as ‘A Thousand Journeys’: A Thousand Journeys Travelling Exhibition Itinerary 1998 – 2001 Tin Sheds, Gallery, University of Sydney, 27 March to 18 April 1998 Tamworth…
“This painting is my totem and I am part of Galpu Clan. The painting is about the Wurrkadi. The Wurrkadi come out from the ground because they smell the yams or food (stingray in this story) and eat it. The…
Born and raised in the East Kimberley, Cassius Nulgit is a young member of the well known Carrington family of artists. Beerbee Mungnari was Cassius’s great grandfather, Churchill Cann his grandfather and Sade Carrington his grandmother, with his mother being…
“This one jilji warnti (sandhills) karra (east) from Japingka. We walked around hunting here for kirlka (sand goanna)” said Walka Molly Rogers. Purchased from Mangkaja Arts in Fitzroy Crossing in 2001, Walka Molly Rogers, (Circa 1929 – 2006), a Walmajarri…