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 Aboriginal
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Aboriginal paintings are a rich and varied art
form. This online gallery offers a fine selection
of Australian Aboriginal paintings by artists from
communities in the Kimberley, Central and Western
Desert and Top End (including Arnhem Land) regions
of Australia.
The variety of painting styles in the regions
is described in our Regions
and communities section.
Paintings are arranged by regions - click on
the link to see paintings from a particular region.
If you want to read a short biography of the one
of the artists, go to the Art
and Artists section of our Website.
The prices below are in Australian dollars and
do not include packing, delivery and insurance
- use the "Enquire" button to confirm availability
of a painting and the cost of delivery. To check
the equivalent price in other currencies, use
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Daphne Napurrula Marks |
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Bush Flowers |
| Price: |
$590.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA956, 2007 |
| Acrylic on linen canvas |
| 112 x 137 cm |
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$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
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$77 |
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$66 |
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Marie Simplicia Tipuamantumirri |
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Jilamara Design |
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$850.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA409, 2013 |
| Ochres on canvas |
| 80 x 120 cm |
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During ceremony on the Tiwi Islands a series of ‘yoi’ (dances), are performed; some are totem ic (inherited from the person's Mother) and some serve to act out the narrative of newly composed songs. Participants in these ceremonies are painted with turtiyanginari (the different natural ochre colours) in varying designs, transforming the dancers and, in some cases, providing protection against recognition by mapurtiti (spirits). These designs can be applied in different ways. Ochre is applied to the body and face. These significant artistic designs collectively are called ‘Jilamara’. |
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$33 |
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$77 |
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$77 |
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$66 |
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Tjaruwa (Angelina) Woods |
| Title: |
Yampil |
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$2600.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA1502, 2008 |
| Acrylic on linen canvas |
| 91 x 110 cm |
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Tjaruwa has painted her homeland of Yampil, an area in northern Spinifex. This is sandhill country, with Spinifex and Mulga trees and very sparse water deposits usually in the form of rockholes which are quite small or soak water which you have to dig for. To survive in this western desert area it is essential to know where to find the water and this knowledge has been passed down over thousands of years from generation to generation. Tjaruwa has painted the rockholes of Tjiru, Pakutjatjara, Waltjapi, Kamanti, Waltjipi, Pur Pur,Pulitja, Kapi Wiyatjara, Pulitja and Tjiwara. The two half circles represent the camps of the Wati Kutjara story that is present in this area. |
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$33 |
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$77 |
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$77 |
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$66 |
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Linda Napurrula Ngitjanka |
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Grevillea and Puli |
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$790.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA959, 2007 |
| Acrylic on linen canvas |
| 71 x 122 cm |
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This work shows the sweet tasting native Grevillea growing between the rocky hills surrounding Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff). |
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$33 |
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$77 |
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$77 |
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$66 |
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Ned Johns |
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Sugarbag Dreaming |
| Price: |
$715.00 in Australia
$650.00 for Export. |
| PA790, 2002 |
| Natural ochre and pigments on canvas |
| 60 x 80 cm |
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The artist's cultural totem is the Sugarbag Dreaming associated with country near Wave Hill Station in the western Northern Territory. Sugarbag is the honey and wax that is gathered from hives of native bees. Generally the hives are located in hollows in trees. When hunting people would set about looking for the bees and once they had located the hive they would cut the tree down and extract the sugarbag from the hollow. Once they had collected the sugerbag they would then place it in a billycan of water, boil it and then drink it or eat it whole without boiling it. After boiling, the wax was soft which made it pliable when used in the production of spears, axes and dress items. Traditionally the honey was crucial as a supplement to a bush tucker diet. The artist paints this story almost exclusively with a central point and radiating lines. The central point represents the hive or honey and the lines represent pathways that the native bees use to enter the hive, different colour dots are used to create patterns that give the work interesting depth. |
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$33 |
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$77 |
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$77 |
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$66 |
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Anmanari Napanangka |
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Mulpu |
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$2390.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA963, 2006 |
| Acrylic on linen canvas |
| 122 x 166 cm |
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This work shows the artist's personal Tjukurrpa, the Mulpu (native mushroom), as it was handed to her by her mother. The Mulpu grow after the seasonal rains along the creek and river banks. The painting tells how to find them and how to cook them in an earth stove with a lot of sand. Mulpu represent good times out in the desert, and a time for celebration as the landscape comes alive with bush tucker of all sorts. "After the rain comes the bush mushroom sprouting from the ground, we pick them and they are delicious to eat." Anmanari came to have the Mulpu as her personal law because her mother was eating the mulpu on the night that Anmanari was born, causing a quickening of the pregnancy. In her paintings the artist likes as well to depict women digging for the mushrooms with their traditional tools, their coolamons and nulla nullas. |
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$33 |
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$77 |
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$77 |
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$66 |
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Rosie Goodjie |
| Title: |
Yartaru |
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$3960.00 in Australia
$3600.00 for Export. |
| PA1111, 2009 |
| Acrylic on canvas |
| 96 x 148 cm |
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$33 |
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$77 |
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$77 |
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$66 |
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Biddee Baadjo |
| Title: |
Piyurr |
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$3630.00 in Australia
$3300.00 for Export. |
| PA1114, 2009 |
| Acrylic on canvas |
| 97 x 107 cm |
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$33 |
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$77 |
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$77 |
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$66 |
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