Paintings

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Warakurna: All the Stories Got into our Minds and Eyes features a collection of Western Desert paintings which use a more figurative style to recreate scenes of everyday life and to tell historical and contemporary stories. Many of the works were donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Wayne and Vicki McGeoch.

A multi-coloured dot painting with three motor vehicles painted in white in the centre and another two in yellow dots on the right hand side. 'Warakurna Artists/ Ngaanyatjarra Lands / Keeping Culture Strong / Our / Art Centre' is written in the central section.

Keeping Culture Strong

An acrylic painting on canvas showing an aerial view of a community in a multi-coloured landscape, with the text 'WARAKURNA COMMUNITY' written vertically alongside.

Warakurna Community

An acrylic painting on canvas showing red, yellow and blue rectangles against a dot infill background in yellow, green and orange. Text running vertically along the left hand side reads 'WARAKURNA ROADHOUSE'.

Warakurna Roadhouse

An acrylic painting on canvas showing groups of people and individuals, connected by white dotted lines. The background is made of dot infill in predominantly red and orange tones.

Kungkarrangkalpa

A painting on canvas depicting a central waterhole beyond which there are five figures holding spears with one lying on the ground with a wound in his chest. Below to the right there are two more figures aiming guns at this group and behind them a figure lying on the ground with a spear protruding from his body.

Circus Waters Massacre

An acrylic painting on canvas showing a person leading two camels through a hilly landscape.

Lasseter Story

An acrylic painting on canvas showing one person being speared by another while drinking at a waterhole. There are two other people and a horse standing nearby.

The Wati Who Was Looking for Lasseter

An acrylic painting on canvas showing a group of children and an adult standing outside a building. There are large trees and blue sky above the building.

Mission Time

An acrylic painting on canvas showing brick buildings and groups of people, some working with or trading goods, and some standing in lines.

Waiting for Shop

An acrylic painting on canvas showing people and animals, against a predominantly purple dot infill background. Some of the people carry baskets on their heads.

Holiday Time

A painting depicting a landscape with trees and purple hills in the background against a sky painted in two shades of blue . In the foreground there is a group of figures and small animals moving across the landscape including two figures on each of three camels. Many of the figures are carrying belongings on their heads.

Travelling Around on Camels, Mission Times

An acrylic painting on canvas showing a landscape made of dot infill with people, many of whom carry tools, and two yellow vehicles.

Macaulay and MacDougall

An acrylic painting on canvas showing buildings in the middle with groups of people in shelters and vehicles in each of the corners. The background is made up of dot infill in orange and yellow.

Mr MacDougall and Tommy Dodd

An acrylic painting on canvas showing an aerial view of rectangular buildings and intersecting paths in a multi-coloured landscape.

Giles Weather Station

An acrylic painting on canvas showing two yellow trucks carrying big loads, against a mulitcoloured dot infill background.

Partirninytjarra

An acrylic painting on canvas in predominantly yellow tones, showing three tractors with people standing around them.

Making the Cut Line with Len Beadell

An acrylic painting on canvas showing people and vehicles, with five waterholes running through the centre.

Mr Grayden

An acrylic painting on canvas showing many people, some carrying objects and some seated in shelters, and several dogs against a multi-coloured dot infill background.

Warburton Mission: Leaving Time

An acrylic painting on canvas showing groups of people and four vehicles, against a multi-coloured dot infill background.

Going Home

An acrylic painting on canvas showing people cutting down trees, with vehicles and groups of other people around. The background is made up of dot infill and is predominantly yellow and brown.

Cutline, Warakurna to Warburton

An acrylic painting on canvas showing seven people standing and facing a larger group of people, against a yellow and orange dot infill background.

Land Rights

An acrylic painting on canvas showing two people flying in a helicopter, against a red background.

Helicopter Ride with Brooksy

An acrylic painting on canvas showing two people, three donkeys and a vehicle. One of the people is aiming a firearm at the donkeys.

My Father's Donkeys

A painting with a rust brown background depicitng two white trucks with circular tyre marks below them . In the foreground groups of children gathered near shelters look towards the trucks with their arms raised.

Whitefellas Spinning Around

An acrylic painting on canvas showing an aerial view of a blast coming from a square cut hole. There is a person at the bottom of the hole and two others above.

Miners

An acrylic painting on canvas showing a person leading two camels, against a predominantly yellow background. A small animal is runing alongside the person.

Camel Lady

An acrylic painting on canvas showing a propeller airplane with a truck or 'Jeep' next to it.

The Army Plane that Came to Warburton

An acrylic painting on canvas showing five musicians with instruments, against a bright blue background.

Midnight Oil Concert in Warakurna

A painting depicting a landscape with hills in the background and two groups of camels running across the foreground . There is a cream-coloured helicopter in the blue sky in which there are two figures.

Camel Cull

A painting depicting a black night sky and a landscape with clumps of grass and a few trees . Across this on a red earth road there are two four-wheel drives travelling each with a number of passengers inside and luggage on the roof.

Land Management, Burning Country

An acrylic painting on canvas showing a football match on a green oval against a dark background.

Warakurna Kangaroos and Warburton Tigers

A painting with a band of purple and white dots for the sky , below which there are further bands of white, orange and yellow dots. In the foreground there are a number of female figures; some pick seed from plants and put it into bags, others grind the seed between stones, while a further three figures are sitting on a rug.

Wangurnu

A painting depicting a blue sky and a line of trees in the background . Across the centre there are three four-wheel drives, all of which have luggage tied to the roof and two of which are pulling trailers. In the foreground there is a row of men, a row of women and several children walking across the landscape.

Warakurna to Wanarn Health Walk

An acrylic painting on canvas showing three people sitting under a structure, with more people seated and standing around them. The background is made up of yellow, orange and brown dot infill.

NPY Women's Council

A painting with a background of alternate bands of purple and orange dots . In the upper centre section there is a table at which two figures are sitting. Around this are grouped a number of people either sitting on chairs or on the ground.

Governance Training

A painting with an orange background depicting figures in rows around a brown table on which there is acake which one person is cutting.

Ngaanyatjarra Council's 30th Birthday Party

An acrylic painting on canvas showing a landscape with a sun and three trees above a scene of two vehicles and groups of people.

Making Paintings, Purnu and Tjanpi

An acrylic painting on canvas showing people standing and seated around a white vehicle with a trailer. The background is made up of multi-coloured dot infill.

Tjanpi

An acrylic painting on canvas showing two vehicles, one with a trailer, travelling on a road past a gathering of people.

Tjanpi!

An acrylic painting on canvas showing a person lighting a flame with a torch at the top of the frame. Surrounding this are many people (represented by 'U' shape motifs in yellow, orange and white) in a stadium setting.

2000 Sydney Olympic Games Opening

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