Tyerrtye Areye / People
Figurative Work
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Please note that these prices are exclusive of stretching and shipping. We send paintings rolled and with Australia Post, sign on delivery. Paintings wider than 84cm are sent with TNT. When we send your artwork with either company we will email you the tracking number.
Nora Abbott / Two Women Collecting Bush Foods, 2025 #13829-24
31 x 31cm Acrylic on Linen
'Two women collecting bush foods for dinner. Putting bush foods in cooleman's to take back to camp. Birds surrounding to get fallen scraps and showing the ladies the way back home.'
$250 ( on the stretcher )
Nora Abbott / Old Days, 2024 #13263-24
60 x 90.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘They all live there, a group of people used to go hunting. Night time they go hunting with the moon and dogs. Three men go, they other's go for water. Make little humpy, they relax and tell story. This is near Docker River, Petermann Ranges, other side. After that all the ladies go for bush tucker. Big mob, take home. They used to koalas and goanna on the fire. To tired, they sleep now, all the kungkas (girls).’
$1,200
Sadie Clare Richards / Road back to Alice Springs, 2025 #13866-25
40.5 x 31.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘All the tourists in the tourist buses and cars going to visit Watarrka (kings Canyon). Raining time. Lots of people visiting, seeing this country. ’
$250
Sadie Clare Richards / Road Back to Alice Springs, 2024 #13652-24
35.5 x 41 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘CLC travelling to Mutijulu, Uluru for meeting then back to Alice Springs.
All the tourists travelling with AAT to kings Canyon, they going to see the landscape. Ranger showing them country, go. to see the gorge at Kings Canyon.
Fuel truck headed back from community to Alice Springs.’
$1,030
Elizabeth Douglas / Cave Hill Homeland, 2024 #13751-24
60 x 90 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘We stay at Cave Hill, on the weekend we went bush with the trailer, and we went to see the waterhole and pick all the 'cherry' Illi, yellow, red, orange. We picked them, dry them, grind them with sugar and eat them. Pick up some waru (firewood) and went back to homeland.’
$760
Kyah Armstrong Walker / Babies First Christmas, 2024 #13766-24
30.5 x 61 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Babies first Christmas. Laying in coolemon surrounded by native plants. Waiting for family to arrive.’
$380
Ingrid Williams / Three Houses in Hermannsburg, 2025 #13777-25
31 x 61 cm 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.'
$270
Ingrid Williams / Two Houses in Hermannsburg, 2025 #13794-25
56 x 56 cm cm Acrylic on Linen
'Two 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.'
$440
Kyah Armstrong Walker / Barkaa, 2025 #13853-25
56 x 56 cm cm Acrylic on Linen
'Barkaa and her king brown, inspired by her song king brown.’
$600
Coralie Williams / Sandhill Camp, Family’s Home, Ntaria, 2025 #13800-25
56.5 x 56.5 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.’
$700
Nathan Doolan / Finke, 2024 #13621-24
61 x 91.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Old police station, Ghan railway station, and old accommodation at Finke.’
$800
Nathan Doolan / Camels, 2024 #13660-24
56 x 56 cm Acrylic on Canvas
‘Camels looking for food, Desert Oaks are tasty.’
$440
D. Kumunara Thomas / Donkeys all around Chamber Pillar, 2025 #13806-25
66 x 117 cm cm Acrylic on Linen
'All the donkey in that desert Country south of Titjikala. Those three circles are Chambers Pillar, Castle Rock, and her poor mother trailing behind. We call Chambers Pillar Iterrkewarre [pronounced it-turk-kar-wara]. He's knob-tailed gecko man. He came up from Finke River [down south] and travels all over the area before his family banished him for marrying up a girl. But she's his mother-in-law. That's against our Law.'
Following his banishment, the couple retreated into the desert, Iterrkewarre raging in fury, the girl facing away from him in deep shame. Among the dunes they rested and turned into prominent rocky formations - Iterrkewarre into the Pillar, the girl into Castle Rock. They are trailed by the girl's mother, known as Window Rock..'
$1900
Sally Mulda / Looking for Blanket, 2025 #13815-25
56.5 x 56.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Four people come at midnight looking for blanket one man said lets go next door.’
$1,900