Aboriginal Art Store Gallerytag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2010:/aboriginal-art//42010-03-01T07:06:59ZMovable Type 3.38Rain Showerstag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2010:/aboriginal-art//4.42492010-12-13T04:23:37Z2010-03-01T07:06:59ZIllustrated through fine dots and subtle dashes, it conveys the moving force of wind and rain that has effect upon the Sand hills and its surroundings of Watiyawanu, the artist's homeland in central Australia. If you would like to know...nataliehttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au
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Dreamtime Sisterstag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2010:/aboriginal-art//4.37082010-08-01T04:37:19Z2010-01-12T01:28:02ZThe painting depicts the Dreamtime Sisters. Eastern Arrernte Aboriginal people from central Australia call the spirits 'Irrernte-arenye'. It is their role to guard special areas of land in particular sacred sites. If you would like to know more about Dreamtime...nataliehttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au
Arrernte Aboriginal people from central Australia call the spirits 'Irrernte-arenye'.
It is their role to guard special areas of land in particular sacred sites.
If you would like to know more about Dreamtime Sisters and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:
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Awelye & Bush Melontag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2010:/aboriginal-art//4.41312010-06-16T04:46:23Z2010-01-23T01:22:42ZWith the use of Aboriginal iconography this artwork refers to the artists country of Atnwengerrp and the women's ceremonies performed, which is illustrated with U shaped motifs and lines. The lines represent awelye . The large concentric circles represent the...nataliehttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au
Atnwengerrp and the women's ceremonies performed, which is illustrated
with U shaped motifs and lines. The lines represent awelye. The large concentric circles represent the ceremonial sites.
The small circles depicted refers to the bush melon fruit, which once grew plentiful, but now days difficult to find. The Aboriginal women gathered the fruit, either to be eaten or dried, when bush tucker became scarce. The small brush-strokes represent the Bush melon seed.
If you would like to know more about Awelye & Bush Melon and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles, or view video footage of Aboriginal Women applying body paint design:
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Rainbow Dreamingtag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2010:/aboriginal-art//4.44362010-03-18T00:34:29Z2010-03-18T01:33:42ZThis artwork depicts the mpwelarr spirit, which comes to life in the form of a rainbow. Mpwelarr Dreaming is associated with ceremonies, ensuring the fertility of species. It also has the power of bringing much needed water and causing forceful...nataliehttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au
mpwelarr spirit, which comes to life in the form of a rainbow. Mpwelarr Dreaming is associated with ceremonies, ensuring the fertility of species. It also has the power of bringing much needed water and causing forceful storms.
If you would like to know more about the Rainbow Dreaming and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:
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Bush Plumtag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2010:/aboriginal-art//4.43342010-03-17T23:22:16Z2010-03-18T00:45:28ZThis artwork depicts the Bush plum. The varying composition in colour and pattern reveals the geography of the Bush plum, as well as, the artists intimate knowledge of significant places, such as clay-pans, soakages and spinifex mounds. Arnwekety is a...nataliehttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au
Arnwekety is a food source for the Aboriginal people from Utopia in the Eastern desert of central Australia. The women pay homage through body paint, songlines and dance cycles in their ceremonies.
(Characteristics of Kathleen Ngala's work is the unique over-dotting using layer upon layer of subtle colours; cream, pink, peach and white).
If you would like to know more about the Bush Plum Dreaming and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:
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Womens Dreamingtag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2010:/aboriginal-art//4.25532010-03-17T03:13:59Z2010-03-17T04:45:23ZThis artwork depicts symbols associated with Women's Dreaming stories. Women's Dreaming's are an extended knowledge of sacred places, design and ancient dreamtime stories, which are handed down from generation to generation. The curved pattern depicted represents body marking applied during...nataliehttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au
The curved pattern depicted represents body marking applied during women's ceremonies
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Awelye & Bush Melontag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2010:/aboriginal-art//4.42942010-03-17T01:52:02Z2010-03-17T02:45:25ZWith the use of Aboriginal iconography this artwork refers to the artists country of Atnwengerrp and the women's ceremonies performed, which is illustrated with U shaped motifs and lines. The lines represent awelye . The large concentric circles represent the...nataliehttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au
Atnwengerrp and the women's ceremonies performed, which is illustrated
with U shaped motifs and lines. The lines represent awelye. The large concentric circles represent the ceremonial sites.
The small circles depicted refers to the bush melon fruit, which once grew plentiful, but now days difficult to find. The Aboriginal women gathered the fruit, either to be eaten or dried, when bush tucker became scarce. The small brush strokes represent bush melon seeds, which are discarded.
If you would like to know more about Awelye & Bush Melon and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles, or view video footage of Aboriginal Women applying body paint design:
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Milky Way Dreamingtag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2010:/aboriginal-art//4.34402010-03-16T05:08:51Z2010-03-16T06:45:20ZThis artwork is a significant Dreamtime story belonging to the Warlpiri people of central Australia. The ancestors broke the Yiwarra , its Warlpiri name for Milky Way into individual stars, as we see it today. Some fragments fell to earth,...nataliehttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au
Yiwarra , its Warlpiri name for Milky Way into individual stars, as we see it today. Some fragments fell to earth, creating sacred places. This story is re-told in paintings, song and dance as well as re-enacted in certain ceremonies.
The seven circles represents the seven sisters as they travelled across the Milky Way.
If you would like to know more about the Milky Way Dreaming and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:
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Perente Huntingtag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2010:/aboriginal-art//4.44372010-03-16T00:38:07Z2010-03-16T06:27:24ZThis artwork depicts a Perentie hunting for food. The variations in dots and colour represents the sand hills and country. The Goanna is a totemic spirit and features in Aboriginal mythology. Aboriginal artists who paint their Goanna Dreaming do so...nataliehttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au
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Awelye Atnwengerrptag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2010:/aboriginal-art//4.44292010-03-16T00:16:02Z2010-03-16T05:55:39ZThis artwork depicts awelye , which refers to body paint design and significant women's ceremonies at Atnwengerrp. The lines depicted relate to the ochre body markings the women anoint their upper bodies with in preparation for their women's ceremonies. During...nataliehttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au
awelye , which refers to body paint design and significant women's ceremonies at Atnwengerrp.
The lines depicted relate to the ochre body markings the women anoint their upper bodies with in preparation for their women's ceremonies. During this process the women will chant many song lines. The women perform dance cycles to pay homage to the ancestral country and dreaming's they are attached too.
If you would like to know more about Awelye and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:
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Bush Leaf Dreamingtag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2010:/aboriginal-art//4.43212010-03-15T04:58:18Z2010-03-15T06:45:25ZThis magnificent artwork of fine detail refers to leaves of great importance's from the artist ancestral country of Utopia in central Australia. The leaves are collected by the Aboriginal women, boiled, kangaroo resin added and mixed into a paste, which...nataliehttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au
Utopia in central Australia.
The leaves are collected by the Aboriginal women, boiled, kangaroo resin added and mixed into a paste, which is used by Aboriginal people , as bush medicine to treat a variety of ailments. It is also celebrated in their awelye ceremonies
If you would like to know more about the Bush Leaf Dreaming and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:
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Dreamtime Sisterstag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2010:/aboriginal-art//4.37962010-03-15T03:38:18Z2010-03-17T05:15:11ZThe painting depicts the Dreamtime Sisters. Eastern Arrernte Aboriginal people from central Australia call the spirits 'Irrernte-arenye'. It is their role to guard special areas of land in particular sacred sites. If you would like to know more about Dreamtime...nataliehttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au
Arrernte Aboriginal people from central Australia call the spirits 'Irrernte-arenye'.
It is their role to guard special areas of land in particular sacred sites.
If you would like to know more about Dreamtime Sisters and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:
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Yamtag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2010:/aboriginal-art//4.42872010-03-15T00:35:56Z2010-03-15T00:45:24ZThis artwork refers to the root system of the Pencil yam plant in central Australia. Pencil yam is an important bush tucker food for Aboriginal people and is a significant Dreaming to whose to have attachment to the origins of...Sabinehttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au
awelye ceremonies. Certain song lines, body paint and dance cycles are performed to pay homage to ensure perpetual germination of the pencil yam plant.
The Aboriginal women from Utopia dig them up in creek-beds. They look for the white roots, then cook them in the hot earth beside the fire until they are just firm.
If you would like to know more about the Yam and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:
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Bush Yam Leavestag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2010:/aboriginal-art//4.42842010-03-14T04:48:21Z2010-03-09T07:02:26ZThe artwork represents leaves from the Pencil yam plant, as well as the seasonal transition changes. Aboriginal women use their digging stick to gather the edible white root, which is a principal food source (bush tucker) for Aboriginal people from...nataliehttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au
Utopia in Central Australia.
The women honour the spirit of the yam plant during awelye.
If you would like to know more about the Bush Yam Dreaming and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:
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Bush Yam Leavestag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2010:/aboriginal-art//4.42822010-03-14T03:49:08Z2010-03-14T04:45:23ZThe artwork represents leaves from the Pencil yam plant, as well as the seasonal transition changes. Aboriginal women use their digging stick to gather the edible white root, which is a principal food source (bush tucker) for Aboriginal people from...nataliehttp://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au
Utopia in Central Australia.
The women honour the spirit of the yam plant during awelye.
If you would like to know more about the Bush Yam Dreaming and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:
Aboriginal people from central Australia call the spirits 'Irrernte-arenye'