Posters

All posters are printed on 260gsm paper and cost RRP $12.00 per copy; postage and handling $10.00 extra (incl. mailing tube).

Alangkwa

Alangkwa Country by Eileen Bonney Akemarr

Gender: Female
State: Northern Territory
Region: Central Desert
Community: Ampilatwatja
Language: Alyawarr and Warlpiri
Medium: Acrylic on canvas, 91x61cm

NATSIVAD records, published by Discovery Media

‘They used to live like that at Alangkwa country, where the rivers used to run. They would sit at the soakage that used to hold the water when the river was dry. The stones in the creek were all sorts of colours, pretty colours. They used to stay near the big trees, shady trees, some with sugar bag, near the hills, some with bush medicine or bush orange.’

Eileen Bonney Akemarr was born at Lake Nash in 1952. She is an Alyawarr woman and practises traditional ways. Eileen has a brother Jonny and a sister Joan. Two brothers are deceased. She is married to Wally Morton Apetyarr, also a painter.

‘My father’s father’s country is Arlenkw. My father’s mother’s country is Titjambera. My mother’s mother’s country is Arene.

I paint to keep my country alive, so we can know…teach our young ones, our grandchildren.

I like to paint landscapes of my country, Titjambera and I often use bright colours for the sun, water and sky. When I’m not painting I like to go visiting or hunting for porcupine, sugar bag and bush potato.’

aspinall

Community Housing by Michael Aspinall

Gender: Male
State: South Australia
Community: Yalata
Language: Pitjantjatjara
Medium: Natural ochre, pigments and sand on canvas, 120x60cm

In this painting Michael Aspinall depicts the roofs of houses at Yalata. His distinctive and simple style features his country — Yalata — and objects familiar to him.

His sand painting art is inspired by his well known uncle Jonathon Brown. Michael paints landscapes and visions of his homelands — the Nullarbor plains and Yalata. Michael originates from the Pitjantjatjara lands close to where the atomic bomb testing was done by the British and Australians in the 1950s.

braun

Horse Breaker by Jody Braun

Gender: Female
State: Western Australia
Region: South West, Western Australia
Community: Manning
Medium: Ceramics, painting, acrylic and oils

NATSIVAD records, published by Discovery Media

Jody Broun is a Yindjibarndi woman who was born in Perth in 1963. She has university qualifications in both teaching and philosophy. Jody maintains close connections with her family and country in the Pilbara region of Western Australia that continue to provide inspiration for her work. She has exhibited to critical acclaim in Australia, London, Milan, Kyoto, Singapore and Mauritius. Jody’s work has received many awards, including the prestigious Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 1998 and the Canberra Art Award in 2005.

Goyulan

Goyulan; figures and sand sculpture, figure with spears, ibis, yams by Johnny Mundrukmundruk(attributed), b.c 1927–1987

Gender: Male
Alternative Spelling: Mundrugmundrug, Mundurrug
Active: 1966
State: Northern Territory
Region: Central Arnhem Land
Community: Maningrida
Medium: Natural pigments on eucalyptus bark, 1995, 87x42cm

NATSIVAD records, published by Discovery Media

This painting is made from natural ochres and pigments on bark and comes from the Maningrida region of the Northern Territory. It is linked to the Goyulan song cycle. The painting received conservation treatment for exhibition in 2004 by conservator, Gillian Mitchell.

mickey

Boats, fish; Native Fauna and Flora by Mickey of Ulladulla

Gender: Male
State: New South Wales
Region: South Coast
Community: Ulladulla
Medium: Pencil and watercolour on paper, 1880s, 38x55.2cm (irreg.)
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Likan’Mirri-Connections, AIATSIS art collection: Carol Cooper

The drawings by Mickey of Ulladulla are distinguished by a keen knowledge and love of country and its life-sustaining resources. Mickey’s art is concerned with capturing the spirit of everyday survival and continuity in a fast-changing physical world. His drawings recount a unique, local story which relies almost solely on the details in the works themselves for interpretation.

The teeming bounty of nature is one of Mickey’s central motifs, another being his passion for ships. Below a forest scene of trees and animals is the steamer, The Peterborough, which made weekly trips between Ulladulla and Sydney in the 1880s and 1890s. Circling beneath the ships are some of the edible fish found on the south coast: bream, leatherjackets, snapper, shark and octopus.