Balgo Hills Paintings - Art from Wirrimanu

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.

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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.

Imelda (Yukenbarri) Guguman

Title:	Winpurpurla
Price:	$1000.00 in Australia and Export.
PA131, 2010
Acrylic on linen
50 x 75 cm

Imelda has depicted her mother's country south of Balgo, in the Great Sandy Desert. This country here is named Winpurpurla after a tjurrnu (soakwater). Winpurpurla is an inta (living water) place so it always has good water. Women travel to Winpurpurla to collect a variety of seeds including lukarrari which is ground to make damper as well as kumpupatja (bush tomato) and karnti (bush potato). Imelda is the first child born to Lucy Yukenbarri.

Delivery Costs for this item
Australia	$33
North America	$77
Europe	$77

Carmel Yukenbarri

Title:	Winpurpurla
Price:	$2400.00 in Australia and Export.
PA138, 2004
Acrylic on linen
80 x 120 cm

Carmel has painted some of her mother's country south of Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert. This country here is named Winpurpurla after the tjurrnu (soakwater) shown as the central circle. Winpurpurla is an inta, or 'living water' place so it always has good water. Women travel to Winpurpurla to collect a variety of seeds including lukarrari which is ground to make damper as well as kumpupatja (bush tomato) and karnti (bush potato).

Delivery Costs for this item
Australia	$33
North America	$77
Europe	$77

Brian Mudgedell

Title:	Tjintjinjin
Price:	$1600.00 in Australia and Export.
PA150, 2008
Acrylic on linen
75 x 150 cm

This work depicts the travels of an old woman Kutungka Napanangka from the west. She visited the soakage water site of Tjintjinjin, which is west of Mantati outstation, 70km west of Kintore. She also visited Yaranga and Ngatanga. The lines represent the sand hills in the area and the squares represent the soakage water.

Delivery Costs for this item
Australia	$33
North America	$77
Europe	$77

Ningie Nanala

Title:	Patarr
Price:	$1150.00 in Australia and Export.
PA147, 2002
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 80 cm

This work depicts some of the country south of Yagga Yagga in the Great Sandy Desert, the country of Ningie's youth. In the centre is a tjurmu or soak water called Patarr. Patarr is known as 'living water' as it always contains good water. The white lines represent the tracks of the water as it crosses the country and the small dots depict bush tucker kantilli (bush raisin) and purra (bush tomato).

Delivery Costs for this item
Australia	$33
North America	$77
Europe	$77

Bai Bai Napangarti

Title:	Mungai
Price:	$850.00 in Australia and Export.
PA105, 2007
Acrylic on linen
30 x 80 cm

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"

Delivery Costs for this item
Australia	$33
North America	$77
Europe	$77

Dora Mungkirna

Title:	Tanami Downs
Price:	$1100.00 in Australia and Export.
PA121, 2007
Acrylic on linen
60 x 120 cm

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.

Delivery Costs for this item
Australia	$33
North America	$77
Europe	$77

Gracie Greene

Title:	Walkali
Price:	$800.00 in Australia and Export.
PA100, 2010
Acrylic on linen
60 x 120 cm

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.

Delivery Costs for this item
Australia	$33
North America	$77
Europe	$77

Dora Mungkirna

Title:	Balgo
Price:	$800.00 in Australia and Export.
PA143, 2008
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 90 cm

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.

Delivery Costs for this item
Australia	$33
North America	$77
Europe	$77