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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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Nellie Gordon |
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Kakuru |
| Price: |
$770.00 in Australia
$700.00 for Export. |
| PA780, 2010 |
| Ochres on canvas |
| 60 x 80 cm |
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Kakaru is the Walmajarri word for freshwater mussels. They were an important food source when people lived a traditional lifestyle and were dug from the sand in waterways near the Great Sandy Desert. They are still enjoyed today. This work shows the tracks and tunnels of the buried mussel. “You gotta feel ‘im like that you know. You can get ‘im all a time - dry time ‘e hide langa mud. Can boil ‘im in billycan... cook ‘im in bark... put ‘im la fire, cover ‘im up”. |
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| Delivery charge for this item: |
| Australia |
$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe/Other |
$77 |
| Asia/Pacific |
$66 |
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Lloyd Kwila |
| Title: |
Jumuwarnti - Many Waterholes |
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$1650.00 in Australia
$1500.00 for Export. |
| PA782, 2010 |
| Ochres on canvas |
| 100 x 80 cm |
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In the desert regions of Australia water and waterholes have played an important role in the evolution of indigenous peoples lifestyle, these waterholes were created in the dreamtime Jumangkarni and are all connected by subterranean tunnels. For the Wangkatjunga and Walmajarri people of the Great Sandy Desert knowledge of these waterholes was crucial to survival while living a traditional lifestyle. As a boy Lloyd walked much of the desert with his father Billy Thomas (Karntakarnta) and knows the importance of these waterholes and understands their connections well. |
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$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe/Other |
$77 |
| Asia/Pacific |
$66 |
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Jimmy McKenzie |
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Purnululu |
| Price: |
$1485.00 in Australia
$1350.00 for Export. |
| PA784, 2011 |
| Ochres on canvas |
| 100 x 80 cm |
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This work depicts the beehive-shaped hills of the Bungle Bungle massif on Texas Downs Station in the East Kimberley. Jimmy was born near here and spent all of his early life growing up and working the stock camps with his mother Queenie Mc Kenzie on this country. Purnululu has become a significant tourist attraction and many thousands of visitors arrive each dry season to fly over, camp and walk the creeks and ravines of the Bungle Bungle Range. |
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$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
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$77 |
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$66 |
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Jane Gimme |
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Kinyu |
| Price: |
$1700.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA105, 2015 |
| Acrylic on linen canvas |
| 150 x 75 cm |
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Jane has depicted Kinyu, her mother’s country located in the Great Sandy Desert, south west of Balgo. This country is very important: it attracts people and animals from the surrounding tali (sand hills) because it is full of mangarri (food). Small family groups have been travelling in this country for a long time. They go from one spot to another, hunting in the day and sleeping around the different rock holes (circular shapes) during the night. |
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$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe/Other |
$77 |
| Asia/Pacific |
$66 |
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Miriam Baadjo |
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Yurna |
| Price: |
$2150.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA100, 2014 |
| Acrylic on canvas |
| 75 x 150 cm |
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Miriam has painted some of the country of her uncle Wimmitji Tjapangarti called Yurna located near Jupiter Well. All of the sites shown in the painting are linked with events surrounding the Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) that tells of the Tingari beings who traveling through and holding various ceremonies helped form this area. This painting shows several water holes and bush foods. |
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| Australia |
$33 |
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$77 |
| Europe/Other |
$77 |
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$66 |
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Jane Gimme |
| Title: |
Mindigui |
| Price: |
$800.00 in Australia and Export. |
| PA103, 2015 |
| Acrylic on canvas |
| 60 x 90 cm |
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This is Jane’s grandmother’s country, and shows her ancestors travelling between the waterholes. There are four waterholes that people travelled between. The first is Kunawarritji to stop and camp, then onto Widji where the people would ask Kinyu (the spirit dog) to give them some goannas to hunt and eat. They then travelled on to Mindigui where there is good cold water in a rockhole and they always camped here. They kept travelling and finally arrived at Yila. |
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| Australia |
$33 |
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$77 |
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$77 |
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$66 |
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Nellie Gordon |
| Title: |
Campsite at Sturt Creek |
| Price: |
$1540.00 in Australia
$1400.00 for Export. |
| PA789, 2002 |
| Natural ochre and pigments on canvas |
| 100 x 80 cm |
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This work shows a campsite on Sturt Creek on Billiluna Station in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The artist was born at this place beneath two large River Red Gums
shown in the lower left of the painting. Sturt Creek is shown running through the middle of the work and at this place there are permanent clear waterholes. Along the length of Sturt Creek the water varies as it winds its way toward the Great Sandy Desert, the water becomes salty at various stages and milky at others. |
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| Australia |
$33 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe/Other |
$77 |
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$66 |
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Ned Johns |
| Title: |
Sugarbag Dreaming |
| Price: |
$715.00 in Australia
$650.00 for Export. |
| PA791, 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 |
| North America |
$77 |
| Europe/Other |
$77 |
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$66 |
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