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Indigenous Plant Pots - Warlukurlangu artists collaboration

Chalkboard texture.
Colourful Logo for Indigenous pot range

We've got a great range of indoor plant pots in partnership with Warlukurlangu Artists

These design's created by Australian Indigenous Artists, have been selected for the exclusive use on our range of plant pots, which are perfect to decorate your home.

Assorted pots with plants and picture of kangaroo in the back ground

Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation was established in 1985 and is a 100% Aboriginal-owned, not-for-profit organisation. Owned by its artists, who reside in the remote, Central Australian desert communities of Yuendumu and Nyirippi, Warlukurlangu Artists is renowned for their colourful acrylic paintings and prints. The artwork has featured in many publications, both Australia wide and internationally.

Warlukurlangu means "belonging to fire" in Waripiri, the local language. It's named for a fire dreaming site west of Yuendumu.

Meet the artists

Jarred Jangala Robertson

Jared Jangala Robertson was born in Yuendumu in 1979, a remote Aboriginal community 290km north-west of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory of Australia. His family moved to the Nyirripi outstation when he was young and he grew up and attended school there.

He spends a lot of time in Ernabella these days and also paints for the art centre there. He still has a large extended family in Nyirripi whom he visits often and has been painting through Warlukurlangu Artists since 2010. When he is not painting, he plays football and enjoys going hunting.

Jared uses bright acrylic paintings to tell his traditional stories that depict his country, the animals and features of the landscape.

English artwork name: Water Dreaming 

Wilpiri artwork name: Ngapa Jakurrpa

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Kirsty Anne Napanangka Martin

Kirsty Anne Napanangka Martin-Brown was born in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Nyirripi, a remote Aboriginal community 450 km north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. She is the daughter of Agnes Nampijinpa Brown and the granddaughter of Molly Napurrurla Martin, both artists working with the Warlukurlangu Art Centre. She has one brother and one sister. Kirsty attended school in Nyirripi and in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 150 km south-east of Nyirripi, before going to Kormilda College, an Aboriginal boarding college in Darwin. When she finished school she returned to Nyirripi where she first worked at the Nyirripi store and then at the Childcare Centre. She has two children.

Kirsty has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation since 2005. Warlukurlangu Artists provides an outlet for Warlpiri artists to paint their cultural heritage and earn income from their work. The Art Centre makes regular visits to Nyirripi to drop off canvas, paint and brushes for the artists and to collect finished artwork. Kirsty paints her Mina Mina Jukurrpa, Dreaming passed down on her father’s side. These stories which relate directly to her land, its features and the fauna and flora that inhabit it, have been passed down for millennia. “I learnt about my culture…I know my Dreaming. I feel proud and closer to my culture when I paint my country.” Kirsty uses traditional iconography with an unrestricted palette to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional culture.

When she’s not painting or working she likes to play softball and basketball as well as going hunting with friends.

English artwork name: Mina Mina Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Mina Mina Jukurrpa - Ngalyipi

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Kirsty Anne Napanangka Martin with Mina Mina Dreaming Plant Pot

Joy Nangala Brown

Joy Nangala Brown was born on the 4th July, 1966 in the hospital at Alice Springs. Her childhood was mostly spent at Yuendumu, although Joy did several years of schooling in Alice Springs, some 290km away, at Yiarra College.

Joy moved to Nyirripi, about 140kms west of Yuendumu, in the early 1980's and has lived there ever since. Joy has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation in Yuendumu since 2006. She paints her father's and grandfather's Jukurrpa stories, Dreamings passed down to her by her mother and father, who in turn recieved them from their parents. Joy is the daughter of the successful Pintupi artist Pegleg Jampijinpa, and grew up with his artwork around her. She is married to Jay Jay Spencer, the adopted son of another artist from Yuendumu, Paddy Japalkarri Stewart.

Her daughter Debbie Napaljarri Brown also paints with Warlukurlangu Artists.

English artwork name: Yumari Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Yumari Jukurrpa

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Margarina Napanangka Miller

Margarina Napanangka Miller was born in Darwin, the closest hospital to Lajamanu, an Aboriginal community in semi-arid country on the edge of the Tanami Desert. She is a devoted mother to her three children and has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists since 1999.

She used to listen to her mother's father's story as she watched her Mum paint. Her father also passed down his father's stories. Her Aunty, Coral Napangardi Gallagher, her father's little sister, also paints with Warlukurlangu Artists and it was she who taught her to paint her father's stories.

When Margarina is not painting she enjoys going out bush to visit her traditional country and hunt.

English artwork name: Desert Fringe-Rush Seed Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Lukarrara Jukurrpa

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Agnes Nampijinpa Brown

Agnes Nampijinpa Brown was born in 1973 in Nyrripi a remote Aboriginal community approximately 450km north-west of Alice Springs in the NT of Australia. She spends her time living between Nyirripi and Yuendumu, an Aboroginal community located 160km south-east of Nyirripi. Agnes attended the Yuendumu School, finishing year 12.

She then returned to Nyirripi where she has two daughters and one son. She is also a grandmother and works for the Aged Care Program in Nyirripi. Agnes has been working with the Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation since 2007. She likes painting the designs of her country; "they are colourful and uplifting and they make me think about my Father. He used to tell me his stories when I was a little girl."

English artwork name: Water Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Ngapa Jakurrpa

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Chantelle Nampijinpa Robertson

Chantelle Nampijinpa Robertson was born in 1996 in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290km north-west of Alice Springs. She began her education at Worawa Aboriginal College, an indigenous girls boarding school in Melbourne and finished her schooling in Yuendumu High School in 2010.

Chantelle comes from a long line of artists. She is the daughter of Justinna Napaljarri Sims and Marshall Jangala Robertson, and is the great grand-daughter of Paddy Japaljarri Sims (deceased) one of the founding artists of Warlukurlangu Artists. Chantelle has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists since 2008. She paints her father's Jukurrpa, stories which relate directly to her land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. Chantelle particularly likes Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming). "I like the water dreaming's patterns and the nice colours.

When she is not painting, she likes to watch movies with her friends and her little brothers, Marshall and Alonzo Robertson.

English artwork name: Water Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Ngapa Jakurrpa

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Kelly-Anne Nungarrayi Gibson

Kelly-Anne Nungaeeayi Gibson was born in 1986 in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Nyirripi, a remote Aboriginal community 450km from Alice Springs in the NT of Australia. Kelly-Anne attended the local school before attending Yiarra, an Aboriginal boarding School in Alice Springs, where she graduated after Year 10.

Kelly-Anne has been painting for Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed Art Centre, since 2009. She uses bright acrylic colours to paint her Fathers Jukurrpa. Dreaming's which have been passed down through the generations for millennia. Kelly-Anne uses an unrestricted palate to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional culture. When she is not painting she likes to go hunting with her children for goanna, bush tomatoes and sweet potato.

This painting depicts Puyurru, a site west of Yuendumu.

English artwork name: Water Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Ngapa Jakurrpa

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Lee Nangala Gallagher

Lee Nangala Gallagher Lee is a talented artist and lives in IB, 300kms north-east of Alice Springs. She depicts Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) and Yankirri Jukurrpa (Emu Dreaming) in her works. The Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) that Lee depicts comes from Wapurtali (Mt Singleton), west of Yuendumu. In Warlpiri paintings, tradtional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa, particular sites and other elements. Short dashes are often used to represent Mungkurdu (Cumulus and stratocumulus clouds), and longer, flowing lines represent Ngawarra (flooded waters).

Small circles are used to depict Mulju (water soakage's) and river beds.

English artwork name: Emu Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Yankirri Jukurrpa

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Flora Nakamarra Brown

Flora Nakamarra Brown was born in Yuendumu NT on the 1st of August, 1963. Both of her parents were well known Warlpiri Artists. She grew up in Yuendumu and went to the local school. She has four children and lots of grandchildren. She now lives in Nyirripi, a remote Aboriginal community 139kms west of Yuendumu. Flora began painting with the Warlukurlangu Artists in 2017.

Flora’s artwork is of Mother’s Mina Mina Jakurrpa (Mina Mina Dreaming-Ngalyipi), a very important Women’s dreaming site near Lake Mackay and the WA Border. These stories have been passed down by her mother and her grandmother for millennia. "I love my Mina Mina story". When Flora is not painting, she likes to "sometimes go hunting kangaroo".

English artwork name: Mina Mina Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Mina Mina Jukurrpa - Ngalyipi

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Carol Nampijinpa Larry

Carol Nampijinpa Larry was born in Kiwirrkura, one of the most remote communities in Australia, and her family heritage is the Luritja people of the Western Desert. She went to school in Papunya, where she learned Warlpiri and English. Carol has four children, as well as a partner who passed away many years ago. She moved to Nyirripi to live with her daughter Melissa Nungarrayi Larry when Melissa married a Warlpiri man from Nyirripi. Melissa also paints for Warlukurlangu Artists and Carol and Melissa often paint together at the art centre.

Carol paints Kartna Jukurrpa (Women’s Dreaming). These stories were passed down to her from her family for millennia. The Dreamings relate directly to her land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it.

English artwork name: Women's Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Karnta Jukurrpa

 

 

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Melissa Napangardi Williams

“Being a painter makes me relax.”

Melissa Napangardi Williams was born in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. She is the daughter of Alice Napurrurla Nelson and Warren Japanangka Williams and has one sister and two brothers. Melissa attended the local school before going to Yirara College, an Aboriginal boarding college in Alice Springs. When she graduated from College, she returned to Yuendumu where she worked as a Receptionist at the local School, at the Health Clinic and later became a full-time carer for her two nephews, niece and her son and daughter.

Melissa Napangardi has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation since 2004. She paints her Father’s Wanakiji Jukurrpa (Bush Tomato Dreaming), Yarla Jukurrpa (Bush Potato Dreaming) and Yuparli Jukurrpa (Bush Banana Dreaming). She also paints her Mother’s Wardapi Jukurrpa (Goanna Dreaming). These stories were passed down to her by her family and their ancestors before them for millennia. She uses an unrestricted palette to develop a modern interpretation of traditional motifs with her own ideas of design and pattern.

When not painting, Melissa enjoys spending time with her husband and three children.

English artwork name: Mina Mina Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Wardapi Jukurrpa - Yarripilangu

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Melissa Napangardi Williams with Goanna Dreaming Plant Pot

Beryl Nakamarra Gorey

Beryl Nakamarra Gorey was born in 1957 at Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. She grew up in Wilora, NT. During her school years, she attended Santa Teresa School in Alice Springs. Santa Teresa is a regional school located 85 km south of Alice Springs. Beryl has fond memories of Wilora, which is situated 212 kms east of Yuendumu.

After she married, she moved to Yuendumu and became very active in the community by working as a volunteer in a number of important community Programs. She worked at the Old People’s Program, a program that cares for the elderly by helping them when they are sick and being with them when they are alone or when they are frightened during storms. She worked at the Childcare Centre, the only fully operational childcare centre in an Aboriginal community. She also worked with the Womens’ Night Patrol, an initiative funded by Central Desert Shire focussing on minimising the number of children on the streets after dark and assisting to maximise the number of children attending school.

Beryl has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation since 2008. Initially her production of art work was sporadic because of her busy lifestyle and later health problems. It wasn’t until 2015 when she was free of obligations and feeling better that she was able to commit herself to full time painting. She paints her mother’s Mukaki Jukurrpa (Wild Plum Dreaming); Karnta Jukukrrpa (Women’s Dreaming) and Jepelyaku Jukurrpa (Bush Duck Dreaming) and her father’s Ngarlkirdi Jukurrpa (Witchetty Grub Dreaming). These Dreamings relate directly to her land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it and are passed down to her by her parents and their parents before them for millennia.

Besides her painting, she has lots of grandchildren who keep her occupied.

English artwork name: Witchetty Grub Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Ngarlkirdi Jukurrpa

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Nathania Nangala Granites

Nathania Nangala Granites was born in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community located 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in the NT of Australia. She was born into a family of artists. Her mother is Valda Napangardi Granites and her grandmother is Alma Nungarrayi Granites (deceased), an established artist who has exhibited in Australia and overseas. Nathania grew up listening to her mother’s and her father’s Jukurrpa stories and watching her family paint. She went to the local school in Yuendumu. When she finished school, she assisted Yasmin Napurrular Musharbash, taking photos for Yasmin’s study of everyday life in an Aboriginal camp. Nathania is married and has a little boy born in 2011.

Nathania has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation since 2011. She paints her father’s Jukurrpa, particularly Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) and Warlukurlangu Jukurrpa (Fire Country Dreaming). She also paints her grandmother’s Yanjirlpirri or Napaljarri-Warnu Jukurrpa (Star or Seven Sisters Dreaming). These stories have been passed down over the generations for millennia and relate directly to the land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. Nathania uses an unrestricted palette to depict a modern interpretation of her traditional culture.

When Nathania is not working, she is taking care of her baby son or helping out at the Art Centre assisting in the preparation of art canvasses.

She is also Nampijinpa. She has got two skin-names.

English artwork name: Fire Country Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Warlukurlangu Jukurrpa

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Nathania Nangala Granites with Fire Country Dreaming Plant Pot

Shanna Napanangka Williams

Shanna Napanangka Williams was born in 1988 in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Yuendumu , a remote Aboriginal community located 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in the NT of Australia. Shanna is the great grand-daughter of Paddy Japaljarri Sims (Dec) and Bessie Nakamarra Sims (Dec), two of the founding artists of Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed Art Centre located in Yuendumu. Shanna has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation since 2002, when she was 14 years of age. She began painting during the school holidays when the art centre ran cultural maintenance programs for the school children. Shanna paints her father’s Jukurrpa stories, Dreamings which relate directly to her land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it.

These stories were passed down to her by her father and her great grandfather. Shanna uses an unrestricted palette, building on traditions that stretch back at least fifty millennia, developing a modern interpretation of her traditional culture. The Sims family is indicative of how community based the art centre is with four generations actively participating in art centre activities at the same time. Shanna attended the local Yuendumu School. She is now a full time mum looking after her two children Ivan and Diona. When she is not painting or looking after her children she likes to go hunting. She particularly likes hunting for honey ants.

English artwork name: Water Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Ngapa Jukurrpa - Puyurru

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Shanna Napanangka Williams with Water Dreaming Plant Pot

Selma Napanangka Tasman

Selma Napanangka Tasman was born in Darwin and lived in the Aboriginal community of Lajamanu on the edge of the Tanami Desert, halfway between Darwin & Alice Springs. When she was 11, she moved with her Family to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 300 kms south of Lajamanu. She attended the local school and completed her studies at the Yiarra Aboriginal Boarding College in Alice Springs.

She has been painting intermittently with the Warlukurlangu Artists since 2001. These stories were passed down to her by her father and mother, her grandparents and their parents before them for millennia. She uses an unrestricted pallete to develop a modern interpretation of her culture.

English artwork name: Bush Tomato Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Wanakiji Jukurrpa

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Selina Napanangka Fisher

Selina Napanganka Fisher was born in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in the NT of Australia. At the time her parents were living in Yuendumu. She has three sisters and two brothers. Her mother has since passed away and her father now lives in Mt Allen with another wife. Selina is the granddaughter of the late Topsy Napurrurla Fisher, an established artist with Warlukurlangu Artists. Selina went to the local Yuendumu School before going to Yirara College, an Aboriginal boarding college in Alice Springs, where she graduated in Year 10. When she finished school, she moved to Nyirripi, where she worked in the local store. She is married to Lance Turner, who works for the Community Development Employment Project (CDEP). They have three children.

She has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation since 2006. Selina says that when she was little she would sit and watch her grandmother paint (Topsy Napurrurla Fisher) and she would teach her many Jukurrpa stories. She paints her father’s Pikilyi Jukurrpa (Vaughan Springs Dreaming) and Karnta Jukurrpa (Women’s Dreaming).

English artwork name: Vaughan Springs Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Pikilyi Jukurrpa

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Cecilia and Selina Napanangka Fisher with Vaughan Springs Dreaming Plant Pot

Ursula Napangardi Hudson

Ursula Napangardi Hudson was born in 1962 in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community located 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in the NT of Australia. Ursula attended the local school. When she finished school, she did odd jobs before marrying Mika Hudson, a pastor in Nyirripi, where she has lived ever since. Nyirripi is located a further 150 kms west-south west of Yuendumu. She has three children and six grandchildren.

Ursula has been painting with Walukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation since 1993. The Art Centre makes regular visits to Nyirripi to drop off canvas, paint and brushes for the artists and to collect finished artwork. When Ursula was young she would watch her Aunty, Daisy Napanangka Nelson (Circa 1930 – 2002), paint. “She taught us to paint. I wanted to paint, to teach my kids when they grew up. Tell them the stories, tell the bush tucker stories when they go hunting.”

Ursula paints her father’s Yuparli Jukurrpa (Bush Banana Dreaming) and Pikilyi Jukurrpa (Vaughan Springs Dreaming), which her Aunty taught her and her mother’s Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming). These dreamings have been passed down the generations for millennia and relate directly to the land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. Ursula uses an unrestricted palette to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional culture.

On weekends, when Ursula is not painting she likes to go hunting for honey ants and goanna.

English artwork name: Vaughan Springs Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Pikilyi Jukurrpa

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Ursula Napangardi Hudson with Vaughan Springs Dreaming Plant Pot

Pauline Napangardi Gallagher

Pauline Napangardi Gallagher was born in 1952 in Yuendumu. She went to the local school in Yuendumu and soon after married her promised husband who is now deceased. Pauline moved to Nyirripi in 1983 and still lives there. She has five children, three sons and two daughters and has fifteen grandchildren. Some of her family live in Nyirripi and the rest of her family live in Yuendumu, Kintore and Papunya, Aboriginal communities in the NT of Australia. Pauline’s country is Pikilyi (Vaughan Springs), a sacred water hole located near Mount Doreen Station west of Yuendumu and approximately 350 km north-west of Alice Springs. Pauline has been painting since 2006 with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation located in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in NT of Australia.

She paints her father’s stories – Pikilyi Jukurrpa (Pikilyi Dreaming) and Mina Mina Jukurrpa (Mina Mina Dreaming), Dreamings that relate to her land, its features and animals. They have been passed down to her by her parents and their parents before them for millennia. She continues to paint through this art centre when she visits Yuendumu or when canvas, paint and brushes are dropped off in Nyirripi by Warlukurlangu, as they have done since 2005. Pauline loves colour and uses an unrestricted palette to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional Aboriginal culture.

English artwork name: Mina Mina Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Mina Mina Jukurrpa -  Ngalyipi

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Pauline Napangardi Gallagher with Mina Mina Dreaming Plant Pot

Ruth Napaljarri Spencer

Ruth Napaljarri Stewart was born near Coniston, about 75 km west of Yuendumu. "We walked everywhere with my family. It was a good life." Although Ruth did her schooling at Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km from Alice Springs in NT of Australia, she and her family would frequently travel between Yuenumu, Mt Wedge, Napperby Creek, and Mt Dennison. Ruth spent some time doing domestic work in Yuendumu, before finding employment as a health worker at Yuendumu Clinic. She also worked for a period of time for Yuendumu Council. Ruth has painted with Warlukurlangu Artists since the 1980's, an Aborginial owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu.

She paints many different themes and stories that were passed down to her by her father. Ruth is the younger sister of the successful artist Paddy Japaljarri Stewart, a senior elder at Yuendumu. her traditional country is in the Mount Allen region of the Northern Territory.

English artwork name: Goanna Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Wardapi Jukurrpa - Yarripurlangu

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Ruth Napaljarri Spencer with Goanna Dreaming Plant Pot

Vanetta Nampijinpa Hudson

Vanetta Nampijinpa Hudson was born on 7 April 2000 in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Nyirripi, a remote aboriginal community located approximately 430 km north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. She is the daughter of Daphne Napururrla White and Peter Hudson and has two sisters. She is the granddaughter of Ursula Napangardi Hudson and Freda Napaljarri Jurrah. Vanetta went to the local school in Nyirripi before attending Worawa Aboriginal College in Melbourne, Victoria, a private boarding school catering for girls in the middle years of schooling. When she finished her schooling she returned to Nyirripi.

Vanetta began painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation in 2017. She paints her father’s Warlukurlangu Jukurrpa (Fire Dreaming), stories which relate directly to her land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. These stories were passed down to her by her father and his father before him for millennia. She uses pattern and colour to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional culture.

When Vanetta is not painting, she likes to play softball and basketball with her friends.

English artwork name: Fire Country Dreaming 

Wilpiri artwork name: Warlukurlangu Jukurrpa

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Vanetta Nampijinpa Hudson with Fire Country Dreaming Plant Pot

Violet Napurrurla Malbunka

Violette Malbunka was born in Alice Springs hospital and returned to the remote Aboriginal community of Yuendumu where she grew up and attended school. She has been painting for Warlukurlangu Artists, the local Aboriginal owned art cooperative, since 2016.  Like the other local artists, Violet uses traditional iconography to tell her traditional stories of country. Her main Dreamings stories are Warlukurlangu or Fire Dreaming, Goanna Dreaming and Women hunting for bush tucker. 

These paintings are maps of the local country embedded with traditional lore and have been passed down from generation to generation for millennia. Violet inherited these stories from her parents and she is only allowed to paint the stories that belong to her family. Painting gives her a lot of pleasure and she is very proud to share her culture with the broader community.

English artwork name: Fire Country Dreaming 4

Wilpiri artwork name: Warlukurlangu Jukurrpa

 

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Wilma Napangardi Poulson

Wilma Napangardi Poulson was born in 1970 in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km from Alice Springs. She has a sister, Ivy napangardi Poulson, an artist also working with Warlukurlangu Artists, and a brother who alternates between Darwin and Nyirripi.

Wilma went to the local school in Yuendumu, then to Yiarra College in Alice Springs. When she finished schooling she returned to Yuendumu. Wilma has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists since 2004. She paints several dreaming's, but the ones that feature constantly are the Bush Banana Dreaming depicting Vaughan Springs country and the Snake Vine Dreaming relating to the Mt. Theo area.

These Dreaming's were passed down by her father and his father's father for millennia.

English artwork name: Birds That Live Around Yuendumu

Wilpiri artwork name: Jurlpu Kuja Kalu Nyinami Turntumu-wana

 
Wilma Poulson with Mina Mina Dreaming Plant Pot

Karen Napaljarri Barnes

Karen Napaljarri Barnes was born in Lajamanu, a remote Aboriginal community in semi-arid country on the edge of the Tanami Desert 1000km north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. She moved to Yuendumu, 700km south, after finishing school in Lajamanu, to be with her family. She has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned government Art Centre, since 2001.

She is the grand-daughter of Warlukurlangu's famous artist Judy Napangardi Watson and they would sit together painting at the Art Centre every day when Karen first started painting. Karen paints the dreaming stories handed down to her by her family for generations of millenia, sotries which come from Mina Mina, country west of Yuendumu of which her family are the custodians.

She also paints Karnta Jukurrpa (Women's Dreaming), Wakulyarri Jukurrpa (Wallaby Dreaming), Ngarlajiyi Jukurrpa (Bush Carrot Dreaming) and Ngatjirri Jukurrpa (Bugerigar Dreaming).

English artwork name: Budgerigar Dreaming

Wilpiri artwork name: Ngatijirri Jukurrpa

 
Karen Barnes with Mina Mina Dreaming Plant Pot

Sabrina Napangardi Granites

Sabrina Naoangardi Granites is from the region Yuendumu, about 300km west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Her dreaming is Mina Mina, Milky Way and Seven Sisters, Snake Vine and Women’s Dreaming.

She is part of a celebrated family of artists and has been painting at the Warlukurlangu art centre since 1997. Her parents are renowned artists Robin Japanangka Granites and Alma Nungarrayi Granites and she is the granddaughter of Paddy Japaljarri Sims and Bessie Nakamara Sims, two of the founding artists of the Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Association.

English artwork name: Mina Mina Dreaming 5

Wilpiri artwork name: Mina Mina Jukurrpa - Ngalyipi

 

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Kathleen Napaljarri Doolan

Kathleen Napaljarri Doolan was born in Alice Springs Hospital in 1987, the closest hospital to Aputula (Finke), a small desert community 240km south of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Kathleen began her early schooling in Finke, before going to Yuendumu where she was brought up by her sister Grace Woods.

When she graduated from primary school, she went to Alice Springs High School, leaving at the end of year 11. After she left school she worked as a childcare worker in Yuendumu where she met her partner. They now live in Nyirripi and have four chuldren, all of whom are at school. Kathleen began painting with Warlukurlangu Artists in 2009. She began painting because she wanted to "do something on my own.

I wanted somewhere quiet and a place to think! Painting is meditative.

English artwork name: Water Dreaming 

Wilpiri artwork name: Ngapa Jakurrpa

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Heather Nangala Nanala

Heather Nangala was born in 1988 and grew up moving between Kintore, which is far west of Alice Springs, and the Tanami Desert. She has been painting for the Warlukurlangu Artists since 2018 and loves depicting sand hills which are very common across her traditional country. Heather has represented the patterns of the landscape associated to her country and to her Jukurrpa.

Nyirripi is located 160km west of Yuendumu; the country is covered with sand dunes and low vegetation. Sand storms and whirly-whirly (mini tornados) are frequent in the country. The designs that Heather paints are closely associated to the fixtures of the country; several whirly-whirly' s simultaneously spring out of the ground, carrying with them dust and seeds to be deposited somewhere else in the landscape.

English artwork name: Patterns of the Landscape around Nyirrip