Lena YARINKURA

Butterfly , c.1980

Lena Yarinkura is an artist renowned for her woven pandanus sculptures, a material usually used for basketry. Her use of fibres diverges from the traditional method, making her the first artist from Arnhem to offer sculptures made from fibres. Here,...

Margaret Loy PULA

Devil Lizard Dreaming , 2024

Margaret Loy Pula is the daughter of Kathleen Petyarre and the mother of Abie Loy Kemarre, both highly sought-after artists in the Utopia region. Margaret was born in the bush at Amaroo Station in the Central Desert and grew up in Utopia, about 230km...

Anthony WHITE

Sentier , 2022

Drawing on the region's long tradition of landscape painting, the artist here depicts a landscape at odds with itself. Rather than a landscape in the picturesque tradition, Anthony has moved the genre towards abstraction, reflecting the contemporary...

Anthony WHITE

Ghibli , 2019

The title means ‘the hot, dry wind of the Arabian desert’.  Drawing on the long tradition of landscape painting in the region, the artist here depicts a landscape at odds with itself. Rather than a landscape in the picturesque tradition, Anthony...

Linda Syddick NAPALJARRI

My Father is in Heaven , 1996

In this painting, the artist pays tribute to his late father. His totem was the emu, represented four times by the pairs of three-toed legs at the corners of the canvas, perhaps indicating the four points of the compass. The emus are gathered around...

G. W. BOT

Totem of the Garden , 1999

Born in Pakistan to Australian parents, G.W. BOT lived in several countries before settling in Canberra in 1985, where she developed a strong attachment to her homeland. Inspired by the Aborigines, she adopted the wombat as her totem, in reference to...

Roy WIGGAN

Ilma - Walkabout , 2005

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