Apmere / Country
Non-Figurative Work
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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Kyah Armstrong Walker / Rainbow Serpent Protecting Waterholes, 2025 #13933-25
56.5 x 61 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
Danae Moore / Rainbow Serpent Protecting Waterholes, 2025 #14033-25
41 x 66 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘This painting represents a Rainbow Serpent protecting a series of waterholes. 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.’
$450
Mabel Watson Wilson / Emu Dreaming, 2025 #14163-25
56 x 56 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Emu looking around for water. This is a Dreaming story from my father's country, other side of Yuendumu. Past Mandarin Station, through there and other side. Emu looking round for water, they are three waterholes. I've painted the country side after big rain, flowers everywhere. The emu is looking for yellow fruit to eat, with seed. The snake is in the waterholes.’
$430
Mabel Watson Wilson / Two Women Looking for Bush Tucker & Waterholes, 2025 #14080-25
45 x 90 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘This one here is about two women (the U shaped forms at each end of the painting) looking for bush tucker like yam, and they are looking near waterholes (the circular structures). The women have their digging sticks and coolamon to put all the food in.’
$500
Helen Gillen / Women Digging for Honey Ants, 2025 #14071-25
51 x 51 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Women planning their dig for Honey Ants. Honey Ants hang from the ceiling of chambers their family dig out of the earth. The tunnels into the chambers are long and complex. That means the Honey Ants have to be tracked, and then the women use informed guesswork based on experience to decide where to dig. The process can take hours of very hard work, but the ladies are always completely rewarded when they find those delicious ants whose abdomens are full of sweet honey.’
$350
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri / Watiyawarnu, 2025 #14141-25
39 x 120 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Women collecting Watiyawarnu (Acacia tenuissima). Back at camp after collecting the seeds they make large windbreaks for shelter and winnow the seed in the late afternoon. Immature watiyawarnu seed is ground into a paste and can be used to treat upset stomachs. There is an important ceremony for this Tjukurrpa.’
$650
April Spencer Napaljarri / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2025 #13973-25
66 x 91 cm Acrylic on Linen
'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. Sometimes cover one, and Wardapi runs out other one. Need to hunt him together. Find all the holes. Dig them at the same time. Someone going to get him that way.’
$840
April Spencer Napaljarri / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2025 #13787-25
91 x 112 cm Acrylic on Linen
'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. Sometimes cover one, and Wardapi runs out other one. Need to hunt him together. Find all the holes. Dig them at the same time. Someone going to get him that way.’
$1,430
Rosequinne Nuggett/ Minkulpa (bush tobacco), 2025 #14136-25
66 x 107 cm cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Minkulpa (bush tobacco) plant growing, the leaves are ready to pick, dry them out and then they are ready. Lots of minkulpa growing after the rain.’
$1,200
Maggie Nakamarra Corby / Big Rain Time, 2025 #14123-25
51 x 122 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Kapi (water), big rain time. The painting is split into three sections. One section shows all the bush foods that grow after the rain. Bush banana, Pura (Pura. We call him Pura. Bush Tomato (Solanum chippendalei) you call him. Got lot of little black seed... got to dig him out and throw away. Rubbish one, that seed. We use punu, a little tool from wood. He is called Karriti.) The middle section is the rain time and the last is the hail that sometimes falls in the big summer storms.’
$1,000
Maggie Nakamarra Corby / Inma - Three Sisters Ceremony, 2025 #14160-25
50 x 78.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘This one Inma - Three Sisters Ceremony - painted up dancing close - all painted with ochre - white feather bound to forehead.’
$600
Maryanne Raggett Nungarrayi / Ceremony at M’Bunghara, 2024 #13642-24
91.5 x 112 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Ceremony on M’Bunghara Creek. The country of M’Bunghara is depicted as a combination of creek and open desert. Maryanne’s ‘landscape’ is scattered with humpies, with people [indicated by U shapes] sitting down around fires [circles surrounded by U shapes], performing Ceremony. This Ceremony is open to all – men, women and children participating.’
$2,050
Gwen Gillen / Bush Banana, 2024 #13668-24
76 x 91.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Representing the flower and the bush banana. Eat it raw sometime you can cook it in the fire, in the ashes you know. You can find it everywhere in the bush, after the big rain, then all the bush food grows.’
$1,000