“Bardayal ‘Lofty’ Nadjamerrek AO, a highly respected senior artist, ceremony man and traditional knowledge-holder who lived and worked in the escarpment country of Western Arnhem Land, in Australia’s far north. Born around 1926 in Kukkurlumurl, near the Mann River, Bardayal…
Jimmy Njiminjuma is one of the most renowned artists from the western Arnhem Land region. For many years he lived with his father, Anchor Kulunba, at Mumeka outstation. Njiminjuma said that his father and his uncle Peter Marralwanga showed him…
This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole and soakage water site of Marrapinti, west of the Kiwirrkura Community. A large group of women, represented in the ’U’ shapes, camped at the site during their travels east to Kiwirrkura. While…
Lulu Laradjbi is a senior fibre artist born in 1949. Her partner was the acclaimed bark painter Mick Kubarkku. His waterhole djang which he passed on to her often features in her work. Expansive and innovative in scale and composition,…
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…
David Hall was a Kukatja artist who painted for Warlayirti Artists from Mulan (WA). His designs … are imbued with the knowledge and power of Men’s Law. Born ‘in the bush’ in the area near Percival Lakes c.1930, David Hall…
Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi (born in 1967) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist born in the Papunya community, she followed in her father Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’s footsteps and became an internationally respected painter. Examples of her work are held in many…
Born circ. 1914 in Pintupi/Wenampa country. An account of Nosepeg’s early contacts with European culture is included in Wildbird Dreaming (Amadio & Kimber 1988). Nosepeg began painting at the beginning of the art movement in Papunya – including depictions of…
Excerpt from Ken Watson in ‘Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2014 states:Philip Gudthaykudthay was born to the east of Ramingining in central Arnhem Land. Following the death of his parents he was…
Born west of Karinyarra (Central Mount Wedge), an area for which he was later ‘Boss’ (senior custodian), Tjakamarra worked as a stockman at Glen Helen and Narwietooma stations in his younger days. He and his countryman Bert Tjakamarra were the…