Don’t Stamp On Country

Iltja Ntjarra artists’ new mural is a poignant colourful work that reimagines the 2002 Birth Centenary of the Albert Namatjira Mini Sheet stamp set. Iltja Ntjarra artists are proud to once again pay homage to past family members and celebrate the excellence of their artwork in application and medium.

Funded by Project Seed, a Red Hot Arts Central Australian initiative to support local artists in their development and creation of new work.

Image: Dinni Kunoth Kemarre, with his wife Josie Pitjara Kunoth and daughter Malanda Kunoth with his sculpture, Sydney Cricket Ground. Image courtesy the art centre.

One Big Mob, All Mixed Up

“Those yellow and orange ones are the Alyawarr team from my country, my brothers from the desert. The blue and red mob, they’re from far away, from Sydney near the ocean. Desert team playing that ocean team, both teams playing together, like one big mob. Maybe this top man is an Aboriginal man, maybe the whole team is Aboriginal team? Or maybe this one is a white man or could be other one, like all mixed up. One big mob all mixed, like Australian team all together… then the people come and join the pile up, all together, all mixed up.”

Dinni Kemarre Kunoth is a respected painter and sculptor who lives and works from the remote homeland of Apungalindum in Utopia, Central Australia. His new large-scale sculptural commission ‘One Big Mob, All Mixed Up’ can been seen outside the new Sydney Football Stadium. On visiting the installation Dinni says, “It was a good trip. The fist time I’ve had a look at Sydney. The sculpture looks good in that place. It makes me happy.”

Muyen

Recently, a group of Papunya Tula artists and art workers took a trip to visit the site Muyen, and see Edith Nampitjinpa’s outstation. They stopped on a bush track to collect ashes from the good white trees, and the ladies went to pick wildflwers and collect bush tucker - pangkuna (bean pods) and pura (bush tomatoes). Kathleen Nampitjinpa

(pictured) returned to the troopie with an armful of kalinykalinypa

(honey grevillea) flwers, to eat the sweet nectar. Then it was time for a cook up of roo-tail and toasty damper, in a dry creek bed in the shade.