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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Maryanne Raggett / Ceremony at M'Bunghara, 2025 #13877-25
41 x 66 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.
M’Bunghara, located on M’Bunghara Creek [known as Dashwood Creek] surrounded by Glen Helen Station, is where Maryanne was born to her mother Daisy Leura Nakamarra and father Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri. It is now home to a small Outstation Community of extended family, also called M’Bunghara.’
SOLD
Maryanne Raggett / Ceremony at M'Bunghara, 2025 #13876-25
56 x 66 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.
M’Bunghara, located on M’Bunghara Creek [known as Dashwood Creek] surrounded by Glen Helen Station, is where Maryanne was born to her mother Daisy Leura Nakamarra and father Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri. It is now home to a small Outstation Community of extended family, also called M’Bunghara.’
$600
Grace Spencer / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2024 #13569-24
66 x 122 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.’
SOLD
Grace Spencer / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2024 #13786-25
56 x 76 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.’
SOLD
Grace Spencer / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2024 #13724-24
30 x 30 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.’
$200 (on the stretcher)
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
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
Lynette Corby / Mangarri and Necklace Seed, 2024 #13758-24
66 x 66 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Two things - tree roots used for bush medicine with flowers in the background. Mangarri is a kind of Bush Medicine. The plant roots are gathered, ground up and boiled in water. This is used on the skin. You don't eat this one. Also, the painting has seeds used to make a necklace. The seeds are decorated with a hot wire from the fire. Women make necklaces for decoration and ceremony.
SOLD
April Spencer Napaljarri / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2024 #13688-24
66 x 66 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.’
$600
April Spencer Napaljarri / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2024 #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
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri / Watiywarnu, 2024 #13603-24
45.5 x 91 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.’
SOLD
Arnold Nipper / Caterpillar Dreaming, 2024 #13696-24
45.5 x 90 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘My mother and my mother's father, my grandfather hold this one. It's mine too. Caterpillar, Ayeperenye come up from Wingellina way to Alice Springs. He's right there next to that traffic (Stuart Highway, Alice Springs), that rock there. Ayeperenye.’
SOLD
Doris Bush / 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!'.
$2,060 (framed)
Rosequinne Nuggett/ Minkulpa (bush tobacco), 2024 #13676-24
61 x 76 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.’
SOLD
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.
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