Artists from the Wirrimanu
(Balgo Hills) community in far north Western Australia
have created one of the most distinctive regional styles
in Aboriginal art, renowned for its brilliant colours
and strong designs, including complex layered dotted
images.
For more information, see our pages on Balgo
art and artists. Short biographies are available
on the Balgo artists
pages. There are also limited edition prints by Balgo
artists in the Prints
gallery.
The prices below are in Australian dollars and do not
include packing, shipping and insurance - use the "Enquire"
button to confirm availability of a painting and the
cost of shipping. To check the equivalent price in other
currencies, use the Currency
Conversion link.
Note that works from the Balgo art centre are exempt
from Australian GST, so the prices shown below for Australia
and export are the same (unlike on some other parts
of our Web site). For more details about shopping, see
our Shopping and
online security section. All of the paintings below
are unstretched.
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Bai Bai Napangarti |
| Title: |
Mungai |
| Price: |
$850.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA105, 2007 |
| Acrylic on linen |
| 30 x 80 cm |
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Bai Bai has depicted country south of Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert. This country is named Mungai. This work depicts the variety of seeds that can be found in this country such as tjirrilpatja (bush carrots) and Kantjilyi (bush raisin). "The women are cooking them on little stones" |
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| Australia |
$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe |
$77 |
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Dora Mungkirna |
| Title: |
Tanami Downs |
| Price: |
$1100.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA121, 2007 |
| Acrylic on linen |
| 60 x 120 cm |
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This painting shows the traditional country for Dora, which is near Tanami Downs station in the Northern Territory. It tells the story a Tjungurrayi man shown as the oval shape. He was sick with boils and all the women were sitting and watching him and looking after him. The circles along each side of the painting represent hills and the one at the top is a rockhole. |
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$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe |
$77 |
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Johnny Nangagee |
| Title: |
Nynmi |
| Price: |
$150.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA113, 2010 |
| Acrylic on canvas |
| 30 x 45 cm |
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Johnny has painted his fathers country called Nynmi. Represented in the painting are tali or sandhills, rockholes or living water and bush tomato. |
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$22 |
| North America |
$55 |
| Europe |
$55 |
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Peter Njamme |
| Title: |
Piparr |
| Price: |
$450.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA119, 2010 |
| Acrylic on canvas |
| 60 x 90 cm |
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Peter has painted his father's country which is south east of Yagga Yagga, Piparr. The painting depicts a Tjukurrpa (Dreamtime) story which explains the creation of five rockholes in the region. In the Tjukurrpa the people were forced to crawl on their knees and it was the marks of their knees in the ground that formed the rockholes. These rockholes are seen as the black circles in the painting. These ancestral beings all died when they fell into a fire during the Tjukurrpa. This is talis or sand dune country. This region is rich with the bush tucker called karnti or bush potato. The area is burnt for hunting and regeneration symbolised by the yellow dots. |
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| Australia |
$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe |
$77 |
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Gracie Greene |
| Title: |
Walkali |
| Price: |
$800.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA100, 2010 |
| Acrylic on linen |
| 60 x 120 cm |
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Gracie has painted some women's country, located south of Balgo, in the Great Sandy Desert. This country is known as Walkali, named for the soakwater that forms in the kiliki, or creek, which is shown at the top of the painting. In the Tjukurrpa (Dreamtime) ancestral women were travelling from the west, and came to Walkali, singing their way through the country. At Walkali they stopped, and sat by the waterhole - the various U shapes - to rest. They continued to travel, collecting young girls and bush tucker as they went. They taught the girls as they travelled. |
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| Australia |
$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe |
$77 |
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Dora Mungkirna |
| Title: |
Balgo |
| Price: |
$800.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA143, 2008 |
| Acrylic on canvas |
| 60 x 90 cm |
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Dora has painted some of her mother's country south of Balgo. It depicts women collecting bush honey. The three circles represent trees and the lines between the circles represent the honey. The oblong shapes at the side of the paintings represent the coolamons that are used to collect the honey and other bush foods. |
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| Australia |
$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe |
$77 |
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Denise Long |
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Purkitji |
| Price: |
$650.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA137, 2008 |
| Acrylic on canvas |
| 50 x 100 cm |
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Denise has painted country around Purkitji (Sturt Creek) north of Balgo near the community of Billiluna. The squares represent Purkitji, and the milk water which is generated during the wet season after heavy rains. |
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| Australia |
$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe |
$77 |
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Winnifred Nanala |
| Title: |
Jaluyarnoo |
| Price: |
$650.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA136, 2008 |
| Acrylic on canvas |
| 60 x 90 cm |
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Winnifred has painted some of her mother's country, located south west of Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert. This country is known as Jaluyarnoo named after the large tjurnnu (soakwater) depicted as the large circle in this painting. Surrounding the tjurrnu and dominating the country are tali (sandhills). This is good country for hunting goanna. |
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| Australia |
$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe |
$77 |
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Balgo
Hills Paintings - Art from Wirrimanu
