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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
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Rosalie Napaltjarri Miller |
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Karrinyarra |
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$690.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA953, 2011 |
| Acrylic on linen canvas |
| 100 x 100 cm |
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This work depicts designs connected to the sacred site of Karrinyarra, to the north of Papunya. This is a Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) and Yalka Tjukurrpa (Bush Onion) place. This is a place where the women collect yalka. Concentric circles represent waterholes or yalka. Often women are depicted as U shapes, with their wana or digging stick and oval shaped coolamon by their side. Bush onions may be eaten raw or cooked after removing the hard casing. They are a small onion sedge with corms on shallow roots, the size of a small shallot. The women would perform a traditional ceremony in honour of the Bush Onion where they dance and paint their breast, chest and forearms in ceremonial body designs. They also decorate their bodies with feathers and dance with ceremonial objects such as nulla nullas. |
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$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe/Other |
$77 |
| Asia/Pacific |
$66 |
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Molly Napaltjarri Jugadai |
| Title: |
Napaltjarri Sisters |
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$1090.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA958, 2007 |
| Acrylic on linen canvas |
| 82 x 120 cm |
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The Napaltjarri sisters descend from the seven sisters constellation in the evening sky. As they fall, dew collects on the grass and makes the flowers and bush tucker grow. The sisters roam the earth collecting bush tucker, goanna and bush turkey and vegetables. |
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| Australia |
$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe/Other |
$77 |
| Asia/Pacific |
$66 |
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Evelyn Nungarrayi Jugadai |
| Title: |
Wild flowers west of Ikuntji |
| Price: |
$550.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA961, 1996 |
| Acrylic on canvas |
| 91 x 100 cm |
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| Australia |
$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe/Other |
$77 |
| Asia/Pacific |
$66 |
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Maringka Baker |
| Title: |
Pukara - Dangerous Place |
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$12500.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA1600, 2007 |
| Acrylic on linen canvas |
| 107 x 152 cm |
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This painting comes with a certificate from Tjungu Palya Artists. |
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| Australia |
$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe/Other |
$77 |
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$66 |
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Jimmy Baker |
| Title: |
Tjitji Tjuta |
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$7300.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA1601, 2005 |
| Acrylic on linen canvas |
| 122 x 142 cm |
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This painting is about Tjitji Tjuta, a place where all the children do inma (ceremony). This painting comes with a certificate from Ninuku Arts. |
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| Australia |
$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe/Other |
$77 |
| Asia/Pacific |
$66 |
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Jimmy Baker |
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Kanpiku Tjukurpa |
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$3000.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA1602, 2008 |
| Acrylic on linen canvas |
| 60 x 90 cm |
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This work depicts a story about Kanpi and the Kalaya (emu) dreaming track. It comes with a certificate from Maruku Arts. |
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$33 |
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$77 |
| Europe/Other |
$77 |
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$66 |
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Thecla Bernadette Puruntatameri |
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Jilamara Design |
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$500.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA422, 2014 |
| Ochres on canvas |
| 60 x 90 cm |
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During ceremony on the Tiwi Islands a series of 'yoi' (dances), are performed; some are totemic (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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Shorty Jangala Robertson |
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Ngapa Jukurrpa - Water Dreaming |
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$2950.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA809, 2010 |
| Acrylic on canvas |
| 91 x 107 cm |
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The site depicted is Puyurru, west of Yuendumu. In the usually dry creek beds are water soakages or naturally occurring wells. Two Jangala men, rainmakers, sang the rain, unleashing a giant storm. It travelled across the country, with the lightning striking the land. This storm met up with another storm from Wapurtali, to the west, was picked up by a ‘kirrkarlan’ (brown falcon) and carried further west until it dropped the storm at Purlungyanu, where it created a giant soakage. At Puyurru the bird dug up a giant snake, ‘warnayarra’ (the ‘rainbow serpent’) and the snake carried water to create the large lake, Jillyiumpa, close to an outstation in this country. In many paintings of this Jukurrpa curved and straight lines represent the ‘ngawarra’ (flood waters) running through the landscape. Motifs frequently used to depict this story include small circles representing ‘mulju’ (water soakages) and short bars depicting ‘mangkurdu’ (clouds). |
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| Australia |
$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe/Other |
$77 |
| Asia/Pacific |
$66 |
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