Melissa Williams NAPANGARDI

Wardapi Jukurrpa (Goanna Dreaming) - Yarripilangu , 2023

Originally from Yuendumu in the Central Desert, Melissa Williams Napangardi's work evokes the dream of the goanna, associated with the site of Yarripilangu (Newhaven), around 100 km south-west of Yuendumu. This story belongs to the Napaljarri/Nungarr...

Marlette Ross NAPURRURLA

Karnta Jukurrpa (Womens Dreaming) , 2023

Marlette Ross Napurrurla celebrates here a Dream (Jukurrpa) particular to the women (Karnta) who at the Dreamtime went to gather sweet berries in the sacred region of Mina Mina, to the west of Yuendumu. As the women Ancestors danced, digging sticks e...

Sarah Leo NAPURRURLA

Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Puyurru , 2024

This painting depicts the Dream of Water. It begins its course at the Puyurnu site, west of Yuendumu. Generally speaking, the riverbed is drained, creating marshes or natural water wells, known as "mulju". The owners of this site are the women of the...

Selina Fisher Napanangka

Selina Fisher Napanangka , 2022

The subject of this work is Lappi Lappi, a rock hole near Lake Hazlett,about 90 km northwest of Lake Mackay In Western Australia.

Samantha Wilson NAPURRURLA

Wanakiji Jukurrpa (Bush Tomato Dreaming) , 2023

Here, Samantha Wilson Napurrurla represents the Wanakiji Jukurrpa (dream of the wild tomato). The 'Wanakiji' grows in the bush and is a small spiny plant with purple flowers that bears fleshy green fruit with many small black seeds. Once the fruit ha...

ANONYME

Ceremonial plaque , c. 1950

This ceremonial plaque from the Wadeye region was one of the first works acquired by the ethnologist, lecturer, writer and film-maker Jacques Villeminot, who has devoted part of his life to the Australian Aborigines. He began collecting Aboriginal ob...

Valerie Marshall Napanangka

Pikilyi Jukurrpa (Vaughan Springs Dreaming) , 2021

In this work, Valerie Marshall Napanangka presents her version of the Dream of Pikilyi, a sacred site with a waterhole and stream not far from Yuendumu. She paints her father's dreams, stories linked to her land, its characteristics, and the plants a...

Kathleen PETYARRE

Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming , 2010

Regarded as one of the leading artists on the contemporary Aboriginal scene, Kathleen Petyarre's work depicts a topographical view of her clan territory, evoking the ancestral myth of the Arnkerrth Lizard Woman. At the centre of the canvas is the cer...

Lynnette GRIFFITHS

Reef Trophy I , 2021

Since 2009, a new artistic movement - ghost net sculptures - has emerged in Australia. Ghost nets are scraps of drift nets lost or abandoned by trawlers operating in the Timor Sea. Like anti-personnel mines, they continue to capture marine species, m...

Peter MARALWANGA

Rainbow Serpent , c.1970

Like most Arnhem Land artists, Peter Maralwanga uses the rarrk motif, derived from Mardayin ceremonies, to adorn his creations. The Rainbow Serpent is the protector of the land, the people and the source of all life. It can also be a destructive powe...