Ikarlta Purta Itama: Standing Strong Together
When we paint we are respecting our old people and respecting our Country. Thinking about those stories, listening to the Elders, always strong.
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Joanne Wheeler / Olden Times at Palm Valley, #12229-22
810 x 1010 mm Acrylic on Linen
SOLD
Long time ago – my Country. Lots of people living there [Palm Valley].There was big camp in Palm Valley at Hermannsburg. People living at a place called Ntaria [Hermannsburg]
Joanne Wheeler / Larapinta Drive Hermannsburg to Alice Springs and Back Again, #12025-22 760 x 152 mm Acrylic on linen
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People travelling from Hermannsburg to Alice Springs. They go shopping, clothes shopping, visit family, and then go back to community. Busy road. All the tourists, and visitors, Bush Bus, Gas truck road train. All the cars and bush bus on the road between Hermannsburg and Alice all the time.
Marjorie Williams / All The Animals, #12241-22 755 x 1190 mm Acrylic on Linen
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The man went to check on his country, to see if the water holes were alright, one dog went with him and four stayed behind. While he was away those cheeky dogs in the tray started to drive his truck. A stockman sees and comes in to round the dogs up, while the man chases behind. All the animals nearby watch.
Nora Abbott / Lasseter Story, #11897-22
565 x 565 mm Acrylic on Linen
SOLD
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.
Nora Abbott / Families Dancing, #12089-22
560 x 760 mm Acrylic on Linen
$850
Families dancing, teaching young ones in camp at night, practicing dancing, singing together for ceremony.
Elizabeth Douglas / Swimming at Ulaipanya Waterhole, #12264-22
760 x 1520 mm Acrylic on Linen
$1600
On friday we go from Walinynga (Cave Hill), our homeland to Amata for shopping, and then go back to Cave Hill. Saturday we all go swimming at Ulaipanya Waterhole on Ulaipanya Creek (Britten Jones Creek).
Johnny Dixon / A Flock of Budgerigars, #12198-22 410 x 1490 mm Acrylic on Linen
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A flock of Budgerigars.
Maryanne Raggett Nungarrayi/ Ceremony at M'Bunghara, #12092-22
905 x 1210 mm Acrylic on Linen
SOLD
Ceremony on M’Bunghara Creek. The country of M’Bunghara is depicted as a combination of creek and open desert.
Rosie Campbell / Women’s ceremony, #12053-22 900 x 1200 mm Acrylic on Linen
$1750
Body paint woman wear for ceremony, Coniston Way, woman and children wear for ceremony, open ceremony. They put these marks on their shoulders for Inma (dance). Stories come from my Country, old Coniston camp, west of Coniston Station, like Witchetty Grub Dreaming.
Rosie Campbell / Women's Ceremony, #12265-22 910 x 1120 mm Acrylic on Linen
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Body paint woman wear for ceremony, Coniston Way, woman and children wear for ceremony, open ceremony. They put these marks on their shoulders for Inma (dance). Stories come from my Country, old Coniston camp, west of Coniston Station, like Witchetty Grub Dreaming.
Rhonda Napanangka / Kapi Dreaming, Karrinyarra, #12194-22 750 x 985mm Acrylic on Linen
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My grandfather’s country, my uncle’s country and my mother’s country. A waterhole ‘Waturlpunya’ in Karrinyarra and a chain of pointy hills, all within one country. I’ve been seeing those hills, part of that country. I only paint this one story.
Grace Robinya/ Laramba, Different Times, #11110-20
460 x 905 mm Acrylic on Linen
$1500
Laramba Olden Times. Women sitting down in the humpies with the kids.
And three men, stockmen with horses.
Marjorie Williams / The Bush People, #12135-22
450 x 905 mm Acrylic on Linen
$900
The Bush people, southside, Tempe Downs way, and they was living there for many years. The old people are singing (left) and these mob (centre) are dancing while they're singing. Men singing and dancing for men, but not secret one. This public one.
Ingrid Williams / Four houses in Hermannsburg, #12278-22
680 x 680 mm Acrylic on Linen
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Four houses in Hermannsburg. People sitting down, these women are holding their babies. The children are playing, these ones with a skipping rope. Those are tourist cars driving back to Alice Springs.
Nyinta Donald / In Between Days, #12206-22 400 x 1480 mm Acrylic on Linen
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Some men gone hunting. The women stay at the camp. They collect bush tucker. This is south west (Petermann Ranges) way. My family. Start of in-between days. Aṉangu living in wiltja.
Nyinta Donald / Early Mission Days, #12131-22
765 x 1530 mm Acrylic on Linen
SOLD
Early mission days. All the Anangu wearing clothes and living in their Wiltja (humpies), mission therer (right background). Anangu all still living the way they always did, but now wearing those clothes mission gave them.
April Spencer Napaltjarri / Wardapi Jukurrpa, #12279-22 900 x 1200 mm Acrylic on Linen
SOLD
This painting is about the way women hunt Wardapi – that sand goanna. He digs holes in the dunes, makes his nest deep inside. Many of the holes all join up. Women hunt Wardapi in the dunes by digging out the holes.
Maggie Corby Nakamarra / Yalke (Bush Onion), #12192-22 660 x 965 mm Acrylic on Linen
SOLD
Maggie explains about her childhood, learning from her mother and grandmothers about collecting, cooking and eating Yalke, also called Bush Onion in the desert country west of Haasts Bluff Mission Station.
Maryanne Raggett/ Ceremony at M'Bunghara, #12288-22 920 x 1120 mm Acrylic on Linen
$2060
Ceremony on M’Bunghara Creek. The country of M’Bunghara is depicted as a combination of creek and open desert.
Maryanne Raggett Nungarrayi/ Ceremony at M'Bunghara, #12180-22
900 x 900 mm Acrylic on Linen
$1600
Ceremony on M’Bunghara Creek. The country of M’Bunghara is depicted as a combination of creek and open desert.