“Based on an old painting of Mountford’s Collection of Melville Island. The design represents body painting of Pukumani ceremony (happens during Dry Season). Pukumani means taboo, not to touch food when your son or daughter dies.” As told to Helen…
Written on the Spinifex Arts Projet certificate, Pter Twigg, speaking with Gerome writes that he has painted the country around Irlbillii where he was born in the north of Spinifex country near Mirramirratjara. The painting shows two sorts of tree…
An unusual wooden coolamon with natural ochre painted design by an unknown artist.
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
Separate images can be seen below in the Palya Art website.
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…