Apmere / Country
Non-Figurative Work
When we paint we are respecting our old people and respecting our Country. Thinking about those stories, listening to the Elders, always strong.
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Maryanne Raggett / Ceremony at M'Bunghara, 2024 #13642-24
112 x 91.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Ceremony on M’Bunghara Creek. The country of M’Bunghara is depicted as a combination of creek and open desert. Maryanne’s ‘landscape’ is scattered with humpies, with people [indicated by U shapes] sitting down around fires [circles surrounded by U shapes], performing Ceremony. This Ceremony is open to all – men, women and children participating.
M’Bunghara, located on M’Bunghara Creek [known as Dashwood Creek] surrounded by Glen Helen Station, is where Maryanne was born to her mother Daisy Leura Nakamarra and father Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri. It is now home to a small Outstation Community of extended family, also called M’Bunghara.’
$2050
Maryanne Raggett / Yala - Bush Potato Dreaming, 2024 #13657-24
45 x 90 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Bush Potato - Yala - the potatoes and the plant and the country it grows in.’
$810
Rhonda Napanangka / Kapi Dreaming, Karrinyarra, 2024 #13641-24
112 x 91.5 mm Acrylic on Linen
'My grandfather’s country, my uncle’s country and my mother’s country. A waterhole ‘Waturlpunya’ in Karrinyarra and a chain of pointy hills, all within one country. I’ve been seeing those hills, part of that country. I only paint this one story. I depict all the woman sitting down, story telling. They’re here with their nulla nullas. This one is another waterhole, there’s lots of food here - bush tomato and other fruit. The women were looking for food that’s in abundance and have collected bush bean. They’ve lived off bush tucker for a long time. They’re sitting at the water’s edge resting after foraging for bush tucker. They’re watching the waterhole and digging for water, collecting it, stooped, with their heads down, seated on the ground. They’ve been living there in a big camp for a long time, in this distant place. A long time ago they camped in another place in Waturlpunyu … a long time before now, around another big waterhole in a water dreaming place. They camped there for some time before they grew up and spread out in many different directions moving to communities like Papunya. Papunya was close by, so they ended up staying there. That’s my uncle and that’s my mother. This is my father’s Tjukurrpa, and Grandfather’s hills in Karrinyarra.'
SOLD
Raylene Larry / Ngayuku Ngura, Kaltukatjara, 2024 #13502-24
66 x 117 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘This is my Country, Docker River - Ngayuku Ngura Kaltukatjara.’
$1390
Raylene Larry / Ngayuku Ngura, Kaltukatjara, 2024 #13471-24
75 x 98.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘This is my Country, Docker River - Ngayuku Ngura Kaltukatjara.’
$1850
Maggie Nakamarra Corby / Kapi Tjukurrpa, Kalipinypa, 2024 #13643-24
30 x 30 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘This painting depicts Kapi Tjukurrpa [Water Dreaming] at Kalipinypa, northwest of Sandy Blight Junction, Western Australia. Like her siblings, Maggie Corby inherited the Kalipinypa from her famous father, Johnny Warangkula. She paints the drama of the story using textural elements to evoke the multi-layered complex narrative associated with this great Ancestral rain.'
The different elements of the image represent different elements in the Tjukurrpa, the different colours representing the dunes, hills, foliage, waterholes - full and dry - and the heron associated with the waterhole.’
$200 (on stretcher)
Grace Spencer / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2024 #13570-24
61 x 91.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘This painting is about the way women hunt Wardapi – that sand goanna. He digs holes in the dunes, makes his nest deep inside. Many of the holes all join up. Women hunt Wardapi in the dunes by digging out the holes. Sometimes cover one, and Wardapi runs out other one. Need to hunt him together. Find all the holes. Dig them at the same time. Someone going to get him that way.’
$900
Grace Spencer / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2024 #13569-24
66 x 122 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘This painting is about the way women hunt Wardapi – that sand goanna. He digs holes in the dunes, makes his nest deep inside. Many of the holes all join up. Women hunt Wardapi in the dunes by digging out the holes. Sometimes cover one, and Wardapi runs out other one. Need to hunt him together. Find all the holes. Dig them at the same time. Someone going to get him that way.’
$1290
Grace Spencer / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2024 #13665-24
56 x 56.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘This painting is about the way women hunt Wardapi – that sand goanna. He digs holes in the dunes, makes his nest deep inside. Many of the holes all join up. Women hunt Wardapi in the dunes by digging out the holes. Sometimes cover one, and Wardapi runs out other one. Need to hunt him together. Find all the holes. Dig them at the same time. Someone going to get him that way.’
$510
Gwen Gillen / Bush Banana, 2024 #13668-24
76 x 91.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Representing the flower and the bush banana. Eat it raw sometime you can cook it in the fire, in the ashes you know. You can find it everywhere in the bush, after the big rain, then all the bush food grows.’
$1000
Patricia Robinson / Kapi Dreaming, 2024 #13595-24
76 x 91.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘This painting is Kapi (waterhole) dreaming. All the women looking around for water, rainy time, looking for rock holes. Sometimes they digging for water in the creeks. Water running down, they make a road. Rainy time, we go out swimming and hunting kangaroo too. In this painting the women are depicted by the U shape and their digging stick is placed beside them. the concentric circles represent a rock hole or waterhole.’
$1700
Rosequinne ‘Oki"‘ Nugget / Tali (Sandhill), 2024 #13594-24
61 x 91 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Tali (Sandhills) at Mutijulu. my Grandfather's country is Mutijulu, community close to Uluru, where I have painted these Tali (Sandhills). Tali is everywhere around there, vibrant orange and red. Lots of native flowers growing on the Tali.’
$600
Rosequinne ‘Oki"‘ Nugget / Minkulpa (bush Tabacco), 2024 #13594-24
40 x 76 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Minkulpa (bush tobacco) plant growing, the leaves are ready to pick, dry them out and then they are ready. Lots of minkulpa growing after the rain.’
$490
Rosequinne ‘Oki"‘ Nugget / Tali (Sandhill), 2024 #13648-24
31 x 35 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Tali (Sandhills) at Mutijulu. my Grandfather's country is Mutijulu, community close to Uluru, where I have painted these Tali (Sandhills). Tali is everywhere around there, vibrant orange and red. Lots of native flowers growing on the Tali.’
$200 (on stretcher)
Isobele Spencer Napaljarri / Watiyamarnu, 2024 #13654-24
39.5 x 119.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Women collecting Watiyawarnu (Acacia tenuissima). Back at camp after collecting the seeds they make large windbreaks for shelter and winnow the seed in the late afternoon. Immature watiyawarnu seed is ground into a paste and can be used to treat upset stomachs. There is an important ceremony for this Tjukurrpa.’
$660
Isobele Spencer Napaljarri / Watiyamarnu, 2024 #13603-24
45.5 x 91 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Women collecting Watiyawarnu (Acacia tenuissima). Back at camp after collecting the seeds they make large windbreaks for shelter and winnow the seed in the late afternoon. Immature watiyawarnu seed is ground into a paste and can be used to treat upset stomachs. There is an important ceremony for this Tjukurrpa.’
$580
Nita Williamson / Puli Murpu and Ultukunpa/Kaliny-Kalinypa Tjukurpa, 2024 #13644-24
31 x 41 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Puli Murpu refers to the Musgrave Ranges behind Amata Community, where rockholes fill after rain. Also after rain, Kaliny-Kalinypa [Honey Grevillea], also called Ultukunpa, flower on the sandy plains. The nectar is used to make a cherished sweet drink by soaking blossoms in a billy can of water, or simply by sucking the nectar from the blossoms. Morning is the best time to collect.’
$230 (on stretcher)
April Spencer Napaltjarri / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2024 #13556-24
31 x 61 cm Acrylic on Linen
'This painting is about the way women hunt Wardapi – that sand goanna. He digs holes in the dunes, makes his nest deep inside. Many of the holes all join up. Women hunt Wardapi in the dunes by digging out the holes. Sometimes cover one, and Wardapi runs out other one. Need to hunt him together. Find all the holes. Dig them at the same time. Someone going to get him that way.’
$370
April Spencer Napaltjarri / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2024 #13547-24
30.5 x 61 cm Acrylic on Linen
'This painting is about the way women hunt Wardapi – that sand goanna. He digs holes in the dunes, makes his nest deep inside. Many of the holes all join up. Women hunt Wardapi in the dunes by digging out the holes. Sometimes cover one, and Wardapi runs out other one. Need to hunt him together. Find all the holes. Dig them at the same time. Someone going to get him that way.’
$370
April Spencer Napaltjarri / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2024 #13649-24
61 x 76 cm Acrylic on Linen
'This painting is about the way women hunt Wardapi – that sand goanna. He digs holes in the dunes, makes his nest deep inside. Many of the holes all join up. Women hunt Wardapi in the dunes by digging out the holes. Sometimes cover one, and Wardapi runs out other one. Need to hunt him together. Find all the holes. Dig them at the same time. Someone going to get him that way.’
$1,020
April Spencer Napaltjarri / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2024 #13559-24
66.5 x 66.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
'This painting is about the way women hunt Wardapi – that sand goanna. He digs holes in the dunes, makes his nest deep inside. Many of the holes all join up. Women hunt Wardapi in the dunes by digging out the holes. Sometimes cover one, and Wardapi runs out other one. Need to hunt him together. Find all the holes. Dig them at the same time. Someone going to get him that way.’
$800
Doris Bush / Bush Mangarri Tjuta, 2024 #13401-19
65.5 x 102 cm Ink on Archival Paper
‘Doris has painted a plentiful memory from her past in the early days when she was learning from her mother out at Wilura and Nyunmanu. Nyunmanu is a Dreaming site just to the south east of the remote Aboriginal community of Kintore in the Northern Territory
Doris talks of her and her mother handling different types of Mangarri [food]. As Doris talks about these memories she enacts the handling and eating of Mai [food] and drinking Kapi [water]. Doris speaks of breaking open Pura [big wild bush tomatoes] to eat the flesh and collecting and eating Ilyuru [a sweet natural cotton-candy-like bush food]. Doris talks of different tools to collect this Mangarri, like Wana [digging sticks], and speaks of other parts of the fruitful landscape such as Watiya [trees].
Now, when Doris sits to paint she sits under a large Watiya and remembers that this same type of Watiya was at Nyumanu too, and she and her mother would sit under it.
Doris recalls the whole family sitting around Nikiti way [without clothes in the old days] and without any other Western tools. Doris explains 'Billy can wiya! Blanket wiya! Just running around!'.
$2060 (framed)