Small Paintings
Please note all artworks are now priced at $220, which includes domestic postage - within Australia. Prices do not include the frame.
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Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri
Bush Tucker, #10453-19
310 x 610 mm, Acrylic on Linen
$220
Bush Tucker - we love to collect and eat it. We talk about where to find it, when to find it, all different ones - they all got special places, and special seasons, and special relationships with each other. We talk about all of that all the time. Bush Tucker is so good for us.
Elizabeth Nampitjinpa
Kapi Dreaming, Karrinyarra, #10046-19
310 x 610 mm, Acrylic on Linen
$220
'Kapi [water] Karrinyarra, [Central Mt Wedge] out Papunya way - soakage - our Dreaming from my father'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.
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri
Ngapa Jukurrpa Rain filling up Soaks, #10467-19
305 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
Rain coming down and filling up the soakages. Ngapa Jukurrpa or Water Dreaming for Warlpiri people have several key sacred sites. The Jukurrpa tells of two rainmakers, Jangalas, who sang the rain unleashing a giant storm which collided with another storm. The Kirrakarlanji (Falcon) carried the storm further west, but it became too heavy so he dropped the water at Pirlinyarnu, where it formed an enormous Maluri (clay pan). A Mulju (soakage) exists in this place today. Whenever it rains hundreds of Ngapagarlpa (Bush Ducks) still flock to Pirlinyarnu.
Maryanne Ragget
Ceremony at M'Bunghara, #11102-20
310 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
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.
Marlene Wheeler
Women Collecting Bush Tucker, #9499-18
305 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
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.
Adelisha Forbes
Women looking for water , #10710-20
310 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
Women looking for water in Tjukula.
Helen Dixon
Awelye, #10092-19
310 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
Awelye - women's ceremony. Women sitting down and painting themselves up for dancing.
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri
Yankirri Jukurrpa, #10985-20
310 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
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.
Sadie Clare Richards
Digging for Honey Ants, #10690-20
310 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
In this painting, old lady teaching her grandkids how to track honey ants, and then dig for them.
Maureen Nampitjinpa O'Keefe
Spiritual Story, #9200-18
305 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
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This painting is about spirituality. In this painting is a sunset song, which is a beautiful uplifting song. It makes you feel like you walking on air, the Morning Star. Mum sang songs about the stars, how they twinkle and glisten in the night sky. Also the rainbow over the afternoon sun, the blue light is a special light, which lights up and follows you around. These are songs I remember. My mum would sing to me.
This is a spiritual painting. The green represents how the sky turned green. Song of the colours, beautiful colours around Karlu Karlu.
Karlu Karlu [Devil's Marbles] is a sacred place, a meeting place where the four tribes meet: Kayetetye, Warlpiri, Waramungu, Alyawarr.
Marjorie Williams
Kwatye Dreaming, Tempe Downs way, #11108-20
305 x 610 mm, Acrylic on Linen
$220
Kwatja [water] Dreaming, Tempe Downs way. This is my mother's father's Country. We have big important Kwatja stories all through that Country, including Munyorri, Wira and Illararri Rockholes. In the olden days, my people use to travel on foot to look for water. They walked a long way to find water holes. Once they found the water holes they made their camps next to it to use the water for drinking water, swimming and many more other reason.
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri
Wardapi Jukurrpa, #10942-20
310 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
'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.’
Rachel Lynch Napaltjarri
Tali Karrinyarra, #11109-20
310 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
'This painting is a story about Tali [sand dunes] near Karrinyarra, [Central Mt Wedge] out Papunya way. The Clan Estate or Country known as Karrinyarra lies between Yuendumu to the north, and Papunya to the south. Karrinyarra, also called Central Mt Wedge, actually takes in a wider region that includes much of the Stuart Bluff Range, and is bounded to the west by the Siddeley Range. As with a small number of locations across Central Australia, Karrinyarra is an important hub. It is rich in water, animal and plant resources, and cultural complexity. This Country also represents an important cultural point of intersection, with Warlpiri, Ngalia, Anmatyerr, and Luritja peoples coming together to share in access to the resources, and to take responsibility for the Country and its Law. It therefore has a significant number of Ancestral Tjukurrpa that pass through, originate from, and reside in, this Country's many physical features.
Melinda Nampitjinpa Major
Tali Tjukurrpa, #11140-20
310 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
Tali Tjukurrpa [sand dune dreaming] near Namurru, my grandfather's Country near Desert Bore north of Kintore.
Elizabeth Nampitjinpa
Kapi Dreaming, Karrinyarra, #9648-18
305 x 610 mm, Acrylic on Linen
$220
'Kapi [water] Karrinyarra, [Central Mt Wedge] out Papunya way - soakage - our Dreaming from my father'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.
Rosie Campbell
Women’s Ceremony, #10678-20
610 x 305 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
Women's ceremony - women sitting down and painting themselves up for dancing.
Marlene Wheeler
Bush Tucker, #10075-19
310 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
‘Bush Tucker - we love to collect and eat it. We talk about where to find it, when to find it, all different ones - they all got special places, and special seasons, and special relationships with each other. We talk about all of that all the time. Bush Tucker is so good for us.’
Adelisha Forbes
Minyma Nintini Puliri - Kapi Tjukula , #10579-19
315 x 610 mm Acrrylic on Linen
$220
Minyma Nintini Puliri, Kapi Tjukula - Grandmother teaching Granddaughter, Rockhole. Grandmothers and mothers teaching their granddaughters and daughters about rock holes, finding and collecting water on country. Adelisha learnt this story from her mother, Patricia Robinson, who is also an artist at Tangentyere Artists.
Elizabeth Nampitjinpa
Kapi Dreaming, Karrinyarra , #9415-18
310 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
'This painting is a story about Kapi [water] Karrinyarra, [Central Mt Wedge] out Papunya way - soakage - our Dreaming from my father'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.
Maggie Corby
Ilpili, My Country , #11042-20
310 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
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. 'We are cooking fire in the bush – we are getting wire and billy can to collect. We find Yalke long time in the sand, biggest mob, rub him in our fingers to get skin off, like onion, fill our billy can, cook him up in the sand. He’s little one [indicates about an inch with fingers]. Old people, long time, we been learn. Dreamtime. Sometimes we cook him with rice... tea time.'
Isobelle Spencer
Marlu Jukurrpa, #10045-20
310 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
This Marlu Jukurrpa, or Kangaroo Dreaming belongs to Japaljarri / Jungarrayi men. A father and son follow Kanyarla [Rock Wallaby], like a small kangaroo. They start the journey from Munyunpu near Mt Denison moving to another place called Kirripungu, near Wakurlpa, north east of Yuendumu. Kanyarla sits down in the shade at Kirripungu. The Marlu [kangaroo] tracks are shown as arrow-like shapes. The small circles represents mulju or water soakages along the path they all take. The men are shown with their Spears and Number 7 Boomerangs. This Ancestral story belongs to the Spencer sisters, their father, father’s father, and brothers.
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri
Yarla Jukurrpa [Yam Dreaming], #10757-20
310 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
Isobelle has painted women with their digging sticks, searching for yams, sharing their knowledge about them as they search for this important bush tucker.
For Warlpiri people, the Jukurrpa about the Big Yam and the Small Yam, the Yarla and the Wapirti, is a significant Ancestral narrative that reveals the importance of sustainability and harmony between people. In the Ancestor story, two brothers owned the different ancestral rights for the Yarla [Big Yam] and the Wapirti [Small Yam]. As they moved towards each other from each of their sites, their followers clashed in huge fight, leading to loss of life and destruction. The story is played out by Warlpiri people and it sits in their culture as a reminder of the importance of the yam as a food resource that needs to be managed fairly and shared to maintain social cohesion. Jukurrpa narratives are embedded in ceremony and song.
Sarah Lee Robinson
Women Collecting Bush Tucker, #10111-19
280 x 555 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
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.
Emma Nakamarra Nelson
Kapi Tjukurrpa, #10644-20
610 x 310 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
This painting is about Kapi Tjukurrpa [Rain Dreaming] at Kalipinypa. Emma's father, Johnny Warrangkula was a renowned Rain maker for this Tjukurrpa at this location, as well as one of the senior artists of the first wave of men painting at Papunya.
Patricia Malbunka
Women Planning to Collect Bush Tucker, #10316-19
300 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
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 before they actually go out to do it. Lots of knowledge is shared. It's a really important activity for women to share.
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri
Wardapi Jukurrpa, #9912-19
305 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
'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
Akatjirri in Kanilpa, #11159-20
305 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
Akatjirri, woman carry bush tomatoes on their heads in Kanilpa [wooden dish]. Kanilpa full of wild flower and sweet bush tomatoes.
Rosie Campbell
Women’s Ceremony, #11206-20
310 x 610 mm Acrylic on Linen
$220
Women's ceremony - women sitting down and painting themselves up for dancing.