KONSTANTINA

Wumera Nangamay #22 , 2024

Konstantina, whose real name is Kate Constantine, is a contemporary Aboriginal artist descended from the Gadigal people. Her work tells the true story of her people. Passionate about her language, culture and history, she re-imagines the traditions o...

KONSTANTINA

Language Funnels - Murri - QLD , 2024

Konstantina, whose real name is Kate Constantine, is a contemporary Aboriginal artist descended from the Gadigal people. Her work tells the true story of her people. She is passionate about her language, culture and history, much of which has been lo...

Shanna Williams NAPANANGKA

Napaljarri-warnu Jukurpa (Seven Sisters Dreaming) , 2024

Shanna Williams Napanangka is the granddaughter of the famous artists Paddy Sims Japaljarri and Bessie Sims Nakamarra, who passed on to her the responsibility for the Napaljarri-warnu Jukurpa (the "Dream of the Seven Sisters").For the Aborigines, the...

Tina Martin NAPANGARDI

Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Pirlinyarnu , 2023

 In this work, Tina Martin Napangardi evokes a 'dream' of which she is the guardian, that of the Jindiparnta or Wild Truffle - a tuber that women still harvest in the desert and whose nourishing virtues they celebrate during their own religious...

Moses WURRKIDJ

Mimih Spirit , 2022

Evelyn PULTARA

Bush Yam , 2020

Evelyn Pultara began painting in 1997. At first, she concentrated on more traditional motifs such as bush berries and awelye. Now, she is painting almost exclusively bush yam, an essential food for desert peoples who consider it a "dream".The yam is...

Ollie KEMMARE

Bush Plum , 1996

Ollie Kemmare hails from Utopia in the heart of Australia's central desert, where Aboriginal painting was born in the 1970s. Here she depicts the dream of the wild plum. According to this dream, the Great Ancestors who emerged from the original magma...

David MALANGI

Djan Kawu at Dhabila Creek

This bark is dedicated to the [i]Djan' Kawu[/i], the most important ancestors of the artist's community as they are considered the mothers who gave birth to the first Aborigines. Many sacred stories are associated with them and are taught during init...