Paintings under $550
Please note all prices do include domestic postage within Australia, but do NOT include the frame.
To purchase an artwork, please send us an email at arts@tangentyere.org.au with the artist name and artwork title (please include the catalogue number next to the title, which looks like #12345-67).
Lynette Nungarrayi Corby
Mangarri and Seed Necklace #11017-20
455 x 900 mm Acrylic on Linen
This painting is really about 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 the seeds used to make necklaces. The seeds are decorated with a hot wire from the fire. Women make necklaces for decoration and ceremony.
SOLD
Maryanne Raggett Nungarrayi
Ceremony at M'Bunghara #10290-19
455 x 892 mm Acrylic on Linen
$525
This painting is about 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.
Rhonda Napanangka
Kapi Dreaming, Karrinyarra #11082-20
450 x 900 mm Acrylic on Linen
$525
'This is 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. I depict all the woman sitting down, story telling. They’re here with their nulla nullas. This one is another waterhole, there’s lots of food here - bush tomato and other fruit. The women were looking for food that’s in abundance and have collected bush bean. They’ve lived off bush tucker for a long time. They’re sitting at the water’s edge resting after foraging for bush tucker. They’re watching the waterhole and digging for water, collecting it, stooped, with their heads down, seated on the ground. They’ve been living there in a big camp for a long time, in this distant place. A long time ago they camped in another place in Waturlpunyu … a long time before now, around another big waterhole in a water dreaming place. They camped there for some time before they grew up and spread out in many different directions moving to communities like Papunya. Papunya was close by, so they ended up staying there. That’s my uncle and that’s my mother. This is my father’s Tjukurrpa, and Grandfather’s hills in Karrinyarra.'
Maryanne Raggett Nungarrayi
Ceremony at M'Bunghara#11091-20
450 x 890 mm Acrylic on Linen
$525
This is 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.
Lynette Nungarrayi Corby
Mangarri and Seed Necklace #10931-20
450 x 900 mm Acrylic on Linen
$525
This painting is really about 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 the seeds used to make necklaces. The seeds are decorated with a hot wire from the fire. Women make necklaces for decoration and ceremony.
Alice Napangardi Wheeler
Tali and Pantu #11030-20
465 x 910 mm Acrylic on Linen
$400
‘This one’s a story about sand dunes, Tali, and salt lake, Pantu. When you go out on the plane you see tali and pantu. You see that near Curtin Springs. All the tourists stop, get out, take photo.’
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri
Wardapi Jukurrpa #10586-19
465 x 905 mm Acrylic on Linen
$400
'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.’
Rosie Campbell
Women's Ceremony #10707-20
460 x 910 mm Acrylic on Linen
$440
This painting depicts women's ceremony - women sitting down and painting themselves up for dancing.
Kelly Pereroultja
Maku Tjukurrpa, #9667-18
460 x 900 mm Acrylic on Linen
$400
This painting is about Maku Tjukurrpa or Witchetty Grub Dreaming at Palm Valley just near Ntaria or Hermannsburg. There are three caves there represented by the three concentric circles.
Winkie Spencer Napaljarri
Wardapi Jukurrpa, #10685-20
460 x 905 mm Acrylic on Linen
$440
'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.’
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri
Yarla Jukurrpa, #10196-19
445 x 890 mm Acrylic on Linen
$400
Isobelle has painted women with their digging sticks, searching for yams, sharing their knowledge about them as they search for this important bush tucker.
Rosie Campbell
Women's Ceremony, #10672-20
900 x 455 mm Acrylic on Linen
$440
Rosie has painted the designs used when women are painting up for ceremony. All the women are painting up to get ready to dance. They put these marks on their shoulders during inma (dance). Woman design from her Country near Yeundumu.
Gwen Gillen
Digging for Honey Ants at Watarrka, #10291-19
455 x 910 mm Acrylic on Linen
$450
Digging for Honey Ants at Kings Canyon [Watarrka]. This painting is about mother and daughter. Also grand-daughter joins in. Digging for Honey-Ants out at Kings Canyon [Watarrka].
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri
Wardapi Jukurrpa, #9422-18
450 x 900 mm Acrylic on Linen
$400
'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.’
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri
Wardapi Jukurrpa, #9828-19
460 x 910 mm Acrylic on Linen
$400
‘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.’
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri
Yankirri Jukurrpa, #10719-20
900 x 450 mm Acrylic on Linen
$400
This painting is about Ngarlikurlangu, north of Yuendumu, an important site on the path of the Yankirri Jukurrpa, (Emu Dreaming). The Yankirri travelled to the rockhole at Ngarlikurlangu to find water. This Jukurrpa belongs men from the Jangala/Jampijinpa sections, who marry women from the Nungarrayi/Napaljarri sections, and women from the Nangala/Nampijinpa sections, who marry men from the Jungarrayi/Japaljarri. In contemporary Warlpiri paintings traditional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa, associated sites and other elements. Emus are usually represented by their wirliya (footprints), that show them walking around Ngarlikurlangu eating Yakajirri (bush raisin). In the time of the Jukurrpa there was a fight at Ngarlikiurlangu between a Yankirri Ancestor and Wardilyka (Australian Bustard) Ancestors over sharing the yakajirri found there. There is an important dance for this Jukurrpa that is performed during initiation ceremonies.
Linda Nagamara Allen
Kapi Story for Country, #10769-20
460 x 915 mm Acrylic on Linen
$525
This painting is about Kapi - waterholes and waterways. The circles represent waterholes, and the wavy lines linking the circles represent the creeks in my Country, Papunya way.
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri
Wardapi Jukurrpa, #10704-20
900 x 450 mm Acrylic on Linen
$400
‘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.’
Marlene Wheeler
Women Collecting Bush Tucker, #10443-19
460 x 900 mm Acrylic on Linen
SOLD
This painting is about women talking about collecting bush tucker - where the best places are and the best times - All the women sit with their digging sticks around the hearth to talk about these aspects of collecting bush tucker.
Deborah McDonald Adamson
Kungkarangkalpa [Seven Sisters], #9336-18
455 x 910 mm Acrylic on Linen
$400
This painting tells of the Seven Sisters travels of Central Australia. Wati Nyiru is a lust-filled shape shifting man who seeks to seduce the Seven Sisters and take them as his wives. But he is an untrustworthy tricky man and all the sisters are deeply afraid of him. They travel across the country locked in a battle of wits. Wati Nyiru is smart, but so is the eldest Sister. They each have their stories, their songs, and their dances. Each knows how to read the country they move through, their bush tucker, their Law. The Sisters flee with Wati Nyiru in perpetual pursuit. Wati Nyiru is a master of disguise and uses magic to try to trick the sisters, transforming into highly valued food: the most tempting Bush tomatoes, and the most beautiful Ili (Wild Fig) tree and delicious Wayanu (Quandong tree). The sisters pluck the fruit, but when they taste it they realise that it Nyiru tricking them again. They forever travel through sand hill country hoping they have left him behind. However, Wati Nyiru uses his shape shifting so he is ahead of them, anticipating his next opportunity to seduce and steal one of the younger sisters away.
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri
Yarla Jukurrpa [Yam Dreaming], #10609-20
455 x 910 mm Acrylic on Linen
$400
Isobelle has painted women with their digging sticks, searching for yams, sharing their knowledge about them as they search for this important bush tucker.
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri
Women Digging for Honey Ants, #11070-20
450 x 890 mm Acrylic on Linen
$400
Women digging 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.
Rosie Campbell
Women's Ceremony, #10999-20
410 x 760 mm Acrylic on Linen
$400
Rosie has painted the designs used when women are painting up for ceremony. All the women are painting up to get ready to dance. They put these marks on their shoulders during inma (dance). Woman design from her Country near Yeundumu.
Winkie Spencer Napaljarri
Wardapi Jukurrpa, #10705-20
510 x 760 mm Acrylic on Linen
$400
'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.’
Rosie Campbell
Women's Ceremony, #11049-20
450 x 670 mm Acrylic on Linen
$400
Rosie has painted the designs used when women are painting up for ceremony. All the women are painting up to get ready to dance. They put these marks on their shoulders during inma (dance). Woman design from her Country near Yeundumu.
Rosie Campbell
Women's Ceremony, #10968-20
450 x 675 mm Acrylic on Linen
$400
Rosie has painted the designs used when women are painting up for ceremony. All the women are painting up to get ready to dance. They put these marks on their shoulders during inma (dance). Woman design from her Country near Yeundumu.
Rhonda Napanangka
Kapi Dreaming, Karrinyarra, #9022-18
510 x 745 mm Acrylic on Linen
$400
'This painting is a story about Kapi [water] Karrinyarra, [Central Mt Wedge] out Papunya way - soakage - our Dreaming from my uncle's [mother's brother's] side, private story.' This painting represents Water Dreaming (also called Kapi, or Ngapa Tjukurrpa), from Karrinyarra and Central Mt Wedge, north of Papunya. The circles are the water holes, and this site is strongly associated with rain making ceremonies.