Tyerrtye Areye / People
Figurative Work
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Nora Abbott / Memory Hill, 2024 #13558-24
66.5 x 66.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘On the road to Haasts Bluff and Papunya turn off, they built a big cross on memory hill. Lots of people go to see it, lots of tourists driving by.’
$980
Nora Abbott / Family Visiting Homeland, Petermann Ranges, 2024 #13330-24
61 x 91.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Family come visiting family homeland in the Petermann Ranges, bringing the tjitji [kids]. They come from town [Alice Springs], sit down, talk stories together. Old ones and young ones feel real good seeing all the family like that.’
$1230
Nora Abbott / Lasseter Story, 2024 #13225-24
66 x 66 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Lasseter sitting with two good friends.
My grandfather been tell me this when we moved back to his Country round Docker River [1968]. He live there all his life. He was already husband, father. Life was good there – Petermann Ranges… Everyone camp out all the time. All naked. All live in family groups and visit each other across the country. Everywhere group come together for good hunting – Sorry Business – ceremony – celebrations… and then they go back home. They see smoke over there – know family over there, so go visit. Might camp together for overnight, or little while, then back home again. All moving around that Country [Petermann Ranges] back and forth. They follow kapi and bush foods.
They all saw Lasseter coming – past Papunya, through the lake [Salt Lake country - Lake Neale], Blood Range way. And they been seen him, white man coming up. They bin never seen white man before. They thought he might be ghost. They were too frightened – on the camel, and Lasseter was looking at them. He was looking round for gold. He had that map, little map… Anangu, they all tell each other what they seen as he went by.
Then his camel – two camel – they ran away. He went there to Lasseter’s Cave – Tjunti we call him – that cave he camp. And he stuck there for good. And he used to work with the people now, with Anangu mob, with them together. And he take two young fella look around for two camel that ran from Tjunti. From there they couldn’t find it and they come back home to Tjunti right after. They used to give bush tucker, kangaroo, emu to him, when he ran out of tucker… tucker box empty. Turkey meat, goanna, rabbit - everything – they shared with him. They been get friendly now.
He been stop with Anangu now. They all naked. All Lasseter clothes - his shirt - trouse - underwear - all tatters… nothing – just fall away. He stuck for long time with them. Couldn’t go – where would he go? Nowhere to go. Can’t walk too far… stuck there forever.
My grandfather been tell me all this and that. That’s all my grandfather story. This was when my mother was little girl, about this size [five or six year old], and my uncle was baby. Mother remember this time. She tell me that story too from that time, when my uncle was baby. Lasseter there travelling through from Blood Range, then camping at Tjunti for so long.
They been look after Lasseter. Then when he passed, big mob Anangu, they buried him. I don’t know where, but old people they know. Grandfather tell me south of Tjunti, that’s Lasseter’s Cave.
Kele, that’s all.’
$960
Nora Abbott / 5 Mile Outstation, 2024 #13592-24
45 x 90 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘This is 5 Mile, east of Haasts Bluff, road going to Alice Springs. Papunya is that way over the range, and the other direction is Glen Helen.
My father was working here, long time ago, when I was a school kid 14 years old. We lived in Areyonga, the family, but would visit my father and see what they was doing. Working as a stockmen at a Cattle station, cattle and horses. They was living in tents.’
$890
Ingrid Williams / Three Houses in Hermannsburg, 2024 #13519-24
66 x 107 cm Acrylic on Linen
'Three houses in Hermannsburg, family houses at Sandhill Camp. That's like our family area at Hermannsburg. The families are sitting down outside watching tourist cars coming to Alice Springs.'
$1000
Ingrid Williams / Three Houses in Hermannsburg, 2024 #13568-24
30.5 x 31 cm Acrylic on Linen
'Three houses in Hermannsburg, family houses at Sandhill Camp. That's like our family area at Hermannsburg. The families are sitting down outside watching tourist cars coming to Alice Springs.'
$250 (on the stretcher)
Ingrid Williams / Three houses in Hermannsburg, 2024 #13554-24
41 x 41 cm Acrylic on Linen
'Three houses in Hermannsburg, family houses at Sandhill Camp. That's like our family area at Hermannsburg. The families are sitting down outside watching tourist cars coming to Alice Springs.'
$320 (on the stretcher)
Sally M Nangala Mulda / Hunting Rabbit, 2023 #13096-23
46 x 66 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘We come back from hunting with two Toyota we back with lots of rabbit when sun go we went to Titjikala.’
$1520
Grace Kemarre Robinya / Rain Time, 2024 #13506-24
Framed 39.5 x 34 cm Ink on Hahnemuhle Paper
‘All the men, the women, the kids, the dogs, all sitting on the rocks, relaxing. Evening makes sky orange. Birds flying, sheltering, waiting in the trees, watching creek flowing.’
$500 (framed only)
Doris Darinji Bush Nungarrayi / Bush Mangarri Tjuta, 2024 #10401-19
65.5 x 102 cm Ink on Archival Paper
‘Doris has painted a plentiful memory from her past in the early days when she was learning from her mother out at Wilura and Nyunmanu. Nyunmanu is a Dreaming site just to the south east of the remote Aboriginal community of Kintore in the Northern Territory
Doris talks of her and her mother handling different types of Mangarri [food]. As Doris talks about these memories she enacts the handling and eating of Mai [food] and drinking Kapi [water]. Doris speaks of breaking open Pura [big wild bush tomatoes] to eat the flesh and collecting and eating Ilyuru [a sweet natural cotton-candy-like bush food]. Doris talks of different tools to collect this Mangarri, like Wana [digging sticks], and speaks of other parts of the fruitful landscape such as Watiya [trees].
Now, when Doris sits to paint she sits under a large Watiya and remembers that this same type of Watiya was at Nyumanu too, and she and her mother would sit under it.
Doris recalls the whole family sitting around Nikiti way [without clothes in the old days] and without any other Western tools. Doris explains 'Billy can wiya! Blanket wiya! Just running around!'.’
$2060 (framed only)
Coralie Williams / Sand Hill Camp, Ntaria (Hermannsburg), 2024 #13551-24
60.5 x 60.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘This is a little area called Sand Hill Camp. It’s a little area for family at Ntaria (Hermannsburg). We used to live there, but now we live in Mparntwe . Other family still live there. Sometimes we go like for funeral we’ll go round the Sand Hill Camp to visit families.’
SOLD
Marjorie Nunga Williams / Bush Fires, 2024 #13607-24
41 x 41 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Summertime bush fires pass through scrubs where animals live. Kangaroos, donkeys, horses, dingos, lizards, echindas and birds flee the fiery scrub for safety. Birds above showing the clear path for the other animals to get to safety.’
$420 (on the stretcher)
Mervyn Kingsley / Uluru, Looking from Docker River, 2024 #11420-24
45 x 67.8 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Uluru, looking from Docker River, my wife's Country. A lot of tourists come around there. A lot of Tjukurrpa from all over Australia there, Men's Tjukurrpa, Women's Tjukurrpa, all over.
All the Pitjantjatjara people, they own this Country, this hill. But tourists they come - special one. Got Dreaming Story in that Hill. That's it as far as I know.’
$430
D. Kumunara Thomas / Titjikala Eagle Story, 2024 #11617-24
39 x 119 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘This is Tapatjatjaka, Titjikala means ‘eagle from the clay pan’, and that’s the clay pan on the way into town. It’s sacred. This is the story of the Irretye - Wedge tailed Eagle, who flew overhead and saw a little boy sitting there crying. The boy’s mother just walked away from him to go hunting. Left him there crying. All that boy’s crying brought the Eagle. He heard him, saw him down there on his own. Eagle fly down. The boy climbed on the back of the Eagle, who took him away. They been fly away. That little boy never been seen again. The Eagle stole the little boy and took him away to another place. This happened just near these cattle yards, and the water tank that are part of the old Maryvale Station. Tapatjatjaka is another name for Titjikala community. The Eagle Dreaming is significant to the region and people. The community is also known as Maryvale and Tapatjatjaka.’
$1300
Lizzie Topsy Topora Jako / Waterhole near Tempe Downs Station, 2023 #13512-24
31 x 61 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘This is a waterhole near Tempe Downs Station. All the animals and birds come there to drink. It's good Country.’
$350
Sadie Clare Richards / Artilla (Mt.Connor), 2024 #13571-24
35.5 x 41 cm Acrylic on Linen
All the tourists driving past Artilla on their way from Alice Springs to Yulara. That is the Qantas plane flying out of Yulara, always you see that plane. That helicopter is the rangers looking at the land.
$350 (on the stretcher)
Nyinta Donald / Station master's house, Rumbalara Way, 2023 #13591-24
30.5 x 61 cm Acrylic on Linen
Station master's house somewhere near Docker River.
$400
Nyinta Donald / Curtin Springs station, 2024 #13371-24
75 x 99 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Station master's house near Curtin Springs.
Land Council going for meeting (passing by in the background).’
$2230
Sally M Nangala Mulda / One Woman, 2022 #12459-22
56 x 56 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘One woman said come aside, warm aside. We can talking outside night and day, talk story.’
$1880
Sally M Nangala Mulda / Mother and Daughter, 2024 #13561-24
30.5 x 41 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Daughter pushing mother with wheelchair to the bank.’
$800 (on the stretcher)