Nyumi’s mother belonged to the country of Nyumi near Kiwirrkurra on the Pintupi side. Her father was from Alyarra in the region of Ngaanyatjarra. When Nyumi was a very young child her mother died at the Kanari soakwater close to…
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,…
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.
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…
This screen print shows hills in country called Mingmarriya near Dingo Springs on Texas Downs Station East of Warmun (Turkey Creek) WA where the artist lives and paints. Lots of wild dingos live in the area. Mingmarriya is limestone country…
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…
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…
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…
As seen below in Palya Art’s online gallery: