Entries from Utopian Aboriginal Art Gallery tagged with 'featured'

Untitled

Natalie Pula Holmes’ work is shaped by the nature and landscape of the Eastern Desert, Central Australia. This work is inspired by patterns and shapes...

Women Dancing

Janelle's paintings have always been noted as very contemporary in style and colour. Her earliest works featured bold lineage, dot work and traditional concentric circles....

Awely

Joy Jones’ inspiration for her paintings is derived from her knowledge of Awely or women’s business. Awely describes everything associated with women’s ceremonies or rituals...

Snake Dreaming

Charlie is the son of renowned artist Freddy Kngwarreye Jones who sanctions what can be shown and painted. As well as passing his Dreaming onto...

Wallaby Dreaming

Freddy is one of the important elders of the Utopian land. He lives at Thelye community on Utopia and this is where he sits and...

Awely

Joy Jones’ inspiration for her paintings is derived from her knowledge of Awely or women’s business. Awely describes everything associated with women’s ceremonies or rituals...

Dancing Ladies

Gladdy laughs as she tells us about the joyous women's ceremonies where the Senior Women 'sing in' the younger women. They adorn their bodies in...

Bush Women Dreaming

In her paintings, Pitjara Hunter symbolizes all that is associated with Awely - the decorated torsos of the women the women's ceremonial sites or dreaming...

Sand Dunes

Natalie Pula Holmes' Sand Dunes is an evocation of landscape encountered on her many travels to Lake Nash in the Northern Territory. She layers colour...

Tingari Cycle

Walala was born in the early 1960’s in the Gibson Desert and as one of nine lived a nomadic life (including his brothers Warlimpirrnga and...

Emu (Ankerr) Tucker Dreaming

Dolly is widely recognised as one of Australia’s leading Aboriginal artists and has works in major Australian and international collections. Her Dreamings include Yam Seed...

Sand Dunes

Natalie Pula Holmes' Sand Dunes is an evocation of landscape encountered on her many travels to Lake Nash in the Northern Territory. She layers colour...

Wild Flowers

Sally Kemara Perkins is a young Eastern Arrernte artist whose paintings represent the landscape of her childhood and landscape of her travels. She derives her...

Wild Flowers

Sally Kemara Perkins is a young Eastern Arrernte artist whose paintings represent the landscape of her childhood and landscape of her travels. She derives her...

Bush Potato Dreaming

Lisa is from a family of renowned artists including her mother, Dolly Petyarre Mills, and her auntie, Gloria Petyarre Mills. She is a relatively new...

Perenty (Lizard)

Sandy Pitjara Hunter who is in his early 50s, lives at Irrultja on Utopia in the Northern Territory with his wife Elizabeth Kamara Leo. He...

Yam Seed (Anaty) Dreaming

Dolly Petyarre Mills calls these paintings Yam dreaming. She says the ‘yam it spread everywhere’. She represents the yam roots spreading in a colourful complex...

Bush Plum (Arnwekety) Dreaming

Daughter of the renowned Polly Ngala, Bessie has only just begun her painting career. Like her mother, Bessie paints her dreaming - The Bush Plum....

My Place

Natalie Pula Holmes is part of an exciting new generation of young painters who view life and landscape with a very different perspective to that...

Awely (Body Paint)

Joy Jones’ inspiration for her paintings is derived from her knowledge of Awely or women’s business which are ceremonies associated with women’s social structure and...

Wildflowers

The morass of Wild Flowers produced after desert rains are the source of Lucky Kngwarreye Morton's inspiration. In this painting she uses a pastel pallette...

Bush Plum (Arnwekety) Dreaming

Here Gladdy Kemarre depicts the Bush Plum after the long summer with scorching winds dry and scatter the seed and husk of the bush plum...

Awely (Body Paint)

Joy Jones’ inspiration for her paintings is derived from her knowledge of Awely or women’s business which are ceremonies associated with women’s social structure and...

Wild Flowers

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Bush Women Dreaming

In this semi abstract work Susan Pitjara Hunter depicts Awely (Body Paint) women's ceremonial sites or dreaming places where women are gathered. The women’s bodies...

Awely (Body Paint)

Joy Jones’ inspiration for her paintings is derived from her knowledge of Awely or women’s business which are ceremonies associated with women’s social structure and...

Bush Tucker Seeds

In this work, Sandy Pitjara Hunter depicts the Bush Tucker Seeds scattered in a mirage of colour all over his country of Utopia. Seen from...

Awely-Body Paint

Mary Kemarre Morton’s work symbolizes the different body designs painted on the women for the ceremonies. Underlying the work is layer upon layer of grid-like...

Bush Turkey (Arwengerrp) Dreaming

Cowboy Louie Pwerle is one of the highly regarded Elders of Utopia and is senior custodian for the Bush Turkey Ancestor. Here he depicts a...

Wild Flowers

Lucky’s source of inspiration for Wild Flowers is from the colours, textures and patterns of the masses of flowering plants which spring up all over...

Honey Ant (Yerramp) Dreaming

Her inspiration is derived from her two Countries - Ngkwarlerlanem and Arnkawenyerr. The amazing Honey Ant provides the basis for this work. The Honey Ant's...

Bush Women Dreaming

In her paintings, Pitjara Hunter symbolizes all that is associated with Awely - the decorated torsos of the women the women's ceremonial sites or dreaming...

Bush Tucker Seeds

Elizabeth Kamara Leo uses a fine dotting technique to build layer upon layer of colour representing the bush tucker seeds scattered across the country. Dissected...

Rainbow (Mpwelarr) Dreaming

Lucky Kngwarreye Morton depicts the patterns of the body of the Rainbow Spirit which comes to life in the form of a rainbow at the...

Emu (Ankerr) Tucker Dreaming

The delicate patterning and subtle colours of Dolly's work depicts her country of Alhalker, Utopia. In fine patterning and subtle colours, Dolly depicts the track...

Emu (Ankerr) Tucker Dreaming

The women’s role as hunter and gatherer of food for the family provide her with the custodial role of the Emu Tucker Dreaming. The Emu...

Bush Turkey (Arwengerrp) Dreaming

This painting depicts an aerial view of Cowboy's country as created by the Bush Turkey Ancestor. His distinctive work consists of hundreds of carefully executed...

Women Dancing

All of us women dance and sing when we make women's business Janelle Napaltjarri Stockman...

Bush Plum (Arnwekety) Dreaming

Kathleen’s paintings depict the changing seasonal influences of the Bush Plum plant which is of great significance to the Anmatyerr and Alyawarr women of the...

Awely - Body Paint

Mary Morton’s entire oeuvre is devoted to Awely which refers to the ceremonial world of women’s business and includes women’s ceremonial body designs. These ceremonies...

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