MANGKAJA ARTS: 30 YEARS DESERT AND RIVER
MANGKAJA ARTS: 30 YEARS DESERT AND RIVER
6 - 24 October 2022
Presented by Aboriginal & Pacific Art in association with Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia.
Front cover image:
Lisa Uhl
Warta Turujartu trees
#350/13
Atelier acrylic paint on 14oz canvas 90 x 90 cm
Nyilpirr Ngalyaku Spider Snell (Dec) Kurraralya Jila Living Waterhole #177/98 Atelier acrylic paint on canvas 110 x 105 cm
Kurraralya Jila Living Waterhole
“This country is called Kurraralya. There is rockhole water in the middle and jilji (sandhills) all around. In the Ngarrangkarni (Dreamtime) people travelled through here. They collected seeds as they went and took them to another country. They collected pura like kumpupaja (bush tomato). This is the food that we grew up on here in my country, when we were living here.” - Nyilpirr Ngalyaku Spider Snell
Cory Wakartu Surprise (Dec)
Warla living water #438/10
Atelier acrylic paint 120 x 120 cm
Cory Wakartu Surprise (Dec) Pakarnu #450/07 Atelier acrylic paint on 14oz canvas 60 x 120 cm
Mr May Jilji and Bila 64/21 Acrylic paint on metal 60 x 60 cm
Nyilpirr Ngalyaku Spider Snell (Dec) (Untitled) #455/07 Atelier acrylic paint on 14oz canvas 90 x 120cm
Sonia Kurarra Martuwarra #341/22 Acrylic paint on 14oz canvas 120 x 120 cm
Daisy Japulija Dam at Warlanti #pc738/05 Atelier artist acrylic on 11oz cotton d 90 x 120 cm
Martuwarra
Sonia Kurarra
#32/21 Acrylic paint on 14oz canvas 180 x 94.5 cm
Martuwarra
“Martuwarra is my river country; this painting is all about the Fitzroy river which flows down through Noonkanbah where I live. All kinds of fish live in the water, we catch big mob of gapi fish here. I like parlka (barramundi). We catch kurluma jarti catfish and brim here too. Tortoise and stingray also live here. These fish live in these waters long after the flood has gone. When the parlka get tired they go back into the rock holes. These rock holes hold all the parlka that live in the river. Kalpurtu (creator serpent-type being) also live in these rock holes and swim all around the Palma (creeks) and all around the wakiri (Palm Trees) that grows in the river.”
- Sonia Kurarra
Sonia Kurarra
Martuwarra #443/21 Acrylic on 250gsm velin arches paper 36 x 56 cm
Sonia Kurarra
Martuwarra #444/21 Acrylic on 250gsm velin arches paper 56 x 36 cm
Dolly Snell Jukuja
Kilangkilang #128/14 Atelier acrylic paint on 14oz canvas 120 x 90 cm
Lisa Uhl Yukiri (green) #62/14 Atelier acrylic paint on 11oz canvas 100 x 45 cm
Butcher Cherel (Dec)
Janangoo
Ngawaya #624/06 Atelier acrylic on 250gsm velin arches paper 52 x 75 cm
Janangoo
Butcher Cherel (Dec) Narda #173/08 Atelier acrylic on 250gsm velin arches pa per 56 x 76 cm
Amy Nugget Ngurnta Pulawalala
#814/08 Atelier acrylic paint on 14 oz canvas 90 x 120 cm
Cory Wakartu Surprise (Dec) Tep Jila (waterhole) #600/09 Atelier acrylic paint on 14oz canvas 90 x 120 cm
Annette Lormada Barramundi #213/20 Atelier acrylic on 14oz canvas 120 x 120 cm
Nada Rawlins Tjigila Yiimirri #54/16 Atelier acrylic paint on 14oz canvas 90 x 90 cm
MANGKAJA: 30 YEARS DESERT AND RIVER
Presented by Aboriginal & Pacific Art in association with Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia
5 - 29 October, 2022
Aboriginal & Pacific Art, 1/24 Wellington Street, Waterloo, NSW, 2017 Australia
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All images and text copyright the Artists and the community, Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia.