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.
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.’
SOLD
Kyah Armstrong Walker / Desert Sands, 2025 #13931-25
30.5 x 30.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
Walking through the desert sands, watching the snake glide through the sand dunes
$200
Kyah Armstrong Walker / Rainbow Serpent protecting waterholes, 2025 #13932-25
56 x 56 cm cm Acrylic on Linen
This painting represents a Rainbow Serpent protecting a series of waterholes. The wavy coloured lined represent the Ancestral Serpent, and the circles represent waterholes.
$500
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. ’
SOLD
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 / Rainbow Serpent protecting waterholes, 2025 #13933-25
56.5 x 61 cm cm Acrylic on Linen
This painting represents a Rainbow Serpent protecting a series of waterholes. The wavy coloured lined represent the Ancestral Serpent, and the circles represent waterholes.
Most bodies of water throughout Central Australia are sacred sites, even if they are only temporary. In most instances they are protected by resident Rainbow Serpents from strangers. The narrative around the activity of each Rainbow Serpent may differ, however, the principle that they protect waterholes from strangers remains constant.
When approaching bodies of water, those with associations to the waterhole will announce their arrival by singing or calling out, or even tossing a stone in the water, telling the Serpent of their arrival, naming themselves and their kin relationship to the Serpent, and imploring the Serpent for its protection from any trouble. Strangers accompanying those people are also introduced and protection sought for the strangers as well.
$550
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