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Wadeye, Port Keates

An unusual wooden coolamon with natural ochre painted design by an unknown artist.

Les Mirrikkurriya

Detail of bark painting shown below, Palya Art C-2872 An expressive, communicative Knowledge Keeper from the Maningrida area, some of Mirrikkurriya’s artworks are held in the National Gallery of Victoria.

Beryl Nakamarra Herbert-Barnes (Puyurpa)

Beryl was born in an outstation called Yumurrpa, West of Yuendumu, near the Chilla Well. She walked to Lajamanu and found her husband here. There were no houses here when she arrived in Lajamanu. She had three daughters.  Source: Warnayaka…

Les Mirrikkurriya (Midikuria)

Completed in October 1991, Arnhem Land artist Les Mirrikkurriya’s bark painting, shown above, describes the Rainbow Serpents ‘Borlung’ in action.  Written on the Maningrida Arts Certificate of authenticity, attached reverse, is a precis of the image’s intriguing narrative. The Serpents, with…

Les Mirrikkurriya

The Rainbow Snake is a powerful mythological figure for all Aboriginal people throughout Australia. Characteristics of the rainbow serpent vary greatly from group to group and also depending on the site. Often viewed as a female generative figure, the rainbow…

Murtikarlka Tjumpo Tjapanangka

The 1995 certificate from Warlayirti Artists, as written by the then manager author James Cowan, reads that “This painting is from Tjumpo’s country and shows the journey of the principal Dreaming Heroes. It is a landscape painting, typical of the…

Pukurny Mick Gill Tjakamarra

A Senior Kukatja speaking Law Man from the grassy shrub, desert sand-lands of the Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts, Pukurny Mick Gill Tjamamarra was one of the first artists to paintin introduced, colourful, Western acrylic pigments in the area. Born…

Pukurny Mick Gill Tjakamarra

A Senior Kukatja speaking Law Man from the grassy shrub, desert sand-lands of the Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts, Pukurny Mick Gill Tjamamarra was one of the first artists to paintin introduced, colourful, Western acrylic pigments in the area. Born…

Pukurny Mick Gill Tjakamarra

A Senior Kukatja speaking Law Man from the grassy shrub, desert sand-lands of the Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts, Pukurny Mick Gill Tjamamarra was one of the first artists to paintin introduced, colourful, Western acrylic pigments in the area. Born…