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.
Want to purchase an artwork? Drop us a line at arts@tangentyere.org.au or click ENQUIRE and contact us with the #number and artist name. Please note that these prices are exclusive of stretching and shipping. We send paintings rolled and with Australia Post, sign on delivery. Paintings wider than 84cm are sent with TNT. When we send your artwork with either company we will email you the tracking number.
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.’
$2,050
Raylene Larry / Ngayuku Ngura, Kaltukatjara, 2024 #13502-24
66 x 117 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘This is my Country, Docker River - Ngayuku Ngura Kaltukatjara.’
$1,390
Raylene Larry / Ngayuku Ngura, Kaltukatjara, 2024 #13638-24
61 x 91 cm Acrylic on Linen
Kungka Kutjara are Two Women. This painting is the story of two women travelling. They were travelling through that Country a long time ago, looking for mai putitja - bush food. They were travelling through Ngayuka Ngura - My Country - Kaltukatjara - Docker River. They were travelling everywhere. This painting is just Kaltukatjara. My grandmother gave me this story. On my mother's side. My mother and father are gone, they passed away. My mother was Pitjantjatjara. My father was Warlpiri man. This story is from my mother's family. The little sister was worrying, she wanted to go back home. The big sister said we can't go home, we have to keep walking.
$890
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.’
$1,290
Grace Spencer / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2024 #13786-25
56 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.’
$680
Grace Spencer / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2024 #13724-24
30 x 30 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.’
$200 (on the stretcher)
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.’
$1,000
Rosequinne Nuggett/ Minkulpa (bush tobacco), 2024 #13676-24
61 x 76 cm 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.’
$750
Rosequinne Nuggett/ Tali (Sandhill), 2024 #13748-24
40 x 40 cm 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.’
$300 ( on the stretcher)
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
Lynette Corby / Mangarri and Necklace Seed, 2024 #13701-24
41 x 41 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Two things - tree roots used for bush medicine with flowers in the background. Mangarri is a kind of Bush Medicine. The plant roots are gathered, ground up and boiled in water. This is used on the skin. You don't eat this one. Also, the painting has seeds used to make a necklace. The seeds are decorated with a hot wire from the fire. Women make necklaces for decoration and ceremony.
$250
Lynette Corby / Mangarri and Necklace Seed, 2024 #13743-24
56.5 x 56.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Two things - tree roots used for bush medicine with flowers in the background. Mangarri is a kind of Bush Medicine. The plant roots are gathered, ground up and boiled in water. This is used on the skin. You don't eat this one. Also, the painting has seeds used to make a necklace. The seeds are decorated with a hot wire from the fire. Women make necklaces for decoration and ceremony.’
$450
Lynette Corby / Mangarri and Necklace Seed, 2024 #13758-24
66 x 66 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Two things - tree roots used for bush medicine with flowers in the background. Mangarri is a kind of Bush Medicine. The plant roots are gathered, ground up and boiled in water. This is used on the skin. You don't eat this one. Also, the painting has seeds used to make a necklace. The seeds are decorated with a hot wire from the fire. Women make necklaces for decoration and ceremony.
$600
Lynette Corby / Mangarri and Necklace Seed, 2024 #13666-24
81.5 x 101.5 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Two things - tree roots used for bush medicine with flowers in the background. Mangarri is a kind of Bush Medicine. The plant roots are gathered, ground up and boiled in water. This is used on the skin. You don't eat this one. Also, the painting has seeds used to make a necklace. The seeds are decorated with a hot wire from the fire. Women make necklaces for decoration and ceremony.
$1,320
April Spencer Napaljarri / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2024 #13688-24
66 x 66 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.’
$600
April Spencer Napaljarri / Wardapi Jukurrpa, 2024 #13787-25
91 x 112 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.’
$1,430
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri / Watiywarnu, 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
Isobelle Spencer Napaljarri / Watiywarnu, 2024 #13752-24
30 x 30 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.’
$110 (on the stretcher)
Rhonda Napanangka/ Kapi dreaming, Karrinyarra, 2024 #13662-24
41 x 41 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘Two things - tree roots used for bush medicine with flowers in the background. Mangarri is a kind of Bush Medicine. The plant roots are gathered, ground up and boiled in water. This is used on the skin. You don't eat this one. Also, the painting has seeds used to make a necklace. The seeds are decorated with a hot wire from the fire. Women make necklaces for decoration and ceremony.
$250
Arnold Nipper / Caterpillar Dreaming, 2024 #13696-24
45.5 x 90 cm Acrylic on Linen
‘My mother and my mother's father, my grandfather hold this one. It's mine too. Caterpillar, Ayeperenye come up from Wingellina way to Alice Springs. He's right there next to that traffic (Stuart Highway, Alice Springs), that rock there. Ayeperenye.’
$570
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!'.
$2,060 (framed)