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25.01.2022 The SEVEN SISTERS story: Few stories capture people’s imagination like that of the Seven Sisters. The Seven Sisters Story is told by aboriginal people all over Australia. The stories vary from area to area, but one common factor is that the Seven Sisters are always watchful or running away from the unwelcome advances of a male (Orion).... In NSW the sisters are called Mayi-mayi. Mayi-mayi were chased by a man called Wurunna. He succeeds in catching two of the women by using trickery. Eventually they escape and rise up into the sky forming the star constellation we know as Pleiades. In the Kimberley area, the Seven Sisters were chased by the Eagle Hawk. He pursued them into the heavens where we now know the women as the star constellation called Pleiades and the Eagle Hawk as The Southern Cross. In the Lake Eyre area the ancestor male who tried to capture one of the women was prevented by a great flood. In Central Australia the women (who formed Pleiades) had been up in the sky for some time. They decided it may be safe to come back down to Earth. They made camp in a sheltered cave surrounded by a grove of wild figs. Nirunja, the man of Orion, saw them leave and followed them down to Earth. He made a screen to hide behind and from here he could watch the women without being seen. That night when the women went to sleep he entered the cave and wanted to lie down with them. But the women woke and once more they escaped him by going up into the sky. He, Nirunja, followed. He continues to pursue them in the heavens as the star constellation Orion. On a clear night you can look up into the sky and see Pleiades and Orion close by. He will never give up. There are many myths about the Seven Sisters, and this story forms an important part of women’s ceremonies all over Australia. We have some lovely vibrant works of the Seven Sisters- we welcome your interest :-) #honeyantgallery #sydneygallery #aboriginalart #aboriginalartist #interiordesignideas #sevensisters

24.01.2022 This lovely work by Emily Andy Napaltjarri depicts the Janmarda Tjukurrpa (Onion Dreaming) site of Karrinyarra (Central Mt Wedge, N.T.). There is a lovely salt lake and sacred spring at Karrinyarra. At certain times of the year the surrounds become covered with bush onion grass creating a creamy texture across the landscape. Women dig at the grass to find the bush onion that grows at the roots. The bush onions are gathered and cooked on the coals of the fire. Once they are cool enough to be held they are rubbed between the hands so that the outer shell comes away revealing the lovely sweet small onion underneath. This painting measures 91 x 76cm, it is stretched and ready for hanging, priced at $1,500. #honeyantgallery #sydneygallery #aboriginalart #aboriginalartist #whatsoninsydney #interiordesignideas

21.01.2022 This exquisitely detailed painting is by Langaliki Lewis of Ernabella Arts. Langaliki depicts her country. The different colours and designs represent variations in the landscape. Langilki is an up and coming artist showing great promise for her sensitive and finely detailed works. Painted in August 2020, this lovely painting measures 100 x 80cm.... #honeyantgallery #aboriginalart #aboriginalartist #sydneygallery #whatsoninsydney #interiordesignideas #ernabellaarts #langalikilewis

21.01.2022 Kudditji Kngwarreye was born in the bush c1925 in an area named Utopia. His distinctively bold style has earned him a place in history as one of Australia’s most important indigenous artists. Kudditji grew up fully nomadic. As a young man he worked as a stockman.... In later years he frequently took young men out bush emu hunting as part of their initiation. He began painting in the late 1970’s. At first his paintings were very traditional and finely detailed. Towards the end of the nineties though, Kudditji’s style changed dramatically. He had started to paint large blocks of colour using his big dump dump" brush. At this time he had been working as a fencer on a large cattle property. He explained that these blocks of colour represented the paddocks, and the seasons and the lines were the fence lines on the property. The colour he chose was meaningful too. Different colours represent different seasons, the drought times, the hot times etc His family told us that he got very upset when the bushfires destroyed his fences. He loved to paint and would often sing and paint into the night. Kudditji passed away a few years ago in Alice Springs. This superb work titled My Country - Boundary Bore measures 120 x 90cm, is priced at $4,200, stretched and ready for hanging. #aboriginalart #honeyantgallery #kudditjikngwarreye #kudditji #sydneygallery #interiordesignideas #whatsoninsydney

21.01.2022 This superb painting is by acclaimed artist, Walangkura Napanangka, born 1946 and passed away in 2014. As one of the last generation to remember a childhood lived in the desert hunting and gathering with her family, Walangkura Napanangka’s paintings recall the stories of country and the location of specific sites in her traditional homeland west of the salt lake of Karrkurutinjinya (Lake Macdonald). She depicts the travels of Kutungka, an old woman as she collects bush tucke...r surrounded by Tali (Sandhills), in the area of Papunya. While in the area she also gathered the mungilypa or samphire seeds from the small fleshy sub-shrub Tecticornia verrucosa and the edible berries known as kampurarrpa or desert raisin. These seeds and berries are used to make damper. While at the site the women made hair string with which to make nyimparra (hair string skirts), worn during sacred ceremonies in the area of the artists birthplace. This significant work measures 180 x 150cm, further details available on request :-) #aboriginalart #honeyantgallery #sydneygallery #interiordesignideas #whatsoninsydney #walangkuranapanangka

21.01.2022 What do the colours of the Australian Aboriginal flag represent? The Aboriginal Flag was designed in the 1970s and its colours represent different aspects of Aboriginal life. The black symbolises Aboriginal people, the yellow represents the sun and the red represents the earth and the relationship between people and the land.... The flag was designed by Harold Thomas, a Luritja man of Central Australia, and was first flown on National Aboriginal Day in Adelaide in 1971. Gary Foley, a Gumbaynggirr man of north-east New South Wales and an Aboriginal Rights activist, took the flag to the East Coast where it was promoted in Sydney and Melbourne. In 1972 the flag became more prolific when it was chosen as the official flag for the Aboriginal Embassy in front of Parliament House in Canberra. #honeyantgallery

19.01.2022 This striking painting is by Papunya Tula artist Yuyuya Nampitjinpa. She depicts designs associated with the rock hole site of Umari, situated in sandhill country, east of Mt Webb in Western Australia. A large group of ancestral women travelled east from Umari to the rock hole site of Pinari, which is north west of the Kintore community. As they travelled the women gathered the edible berries known as kampurarrpa or desert raisin from the small shrub Solanum central. These ...berries can be eaten straight from the bush but are sometimes ground into a paste and cooked in the coals to form a type of damper. The numerous small circles in this work depict the berries collected at this site, while the larger oval shapes represent the rock holes at Umari. This work measures 91 x 46cm, priced at $990, stretched and ready for hanging :-) #honeyantgallery #sydneygallery #interiordesignideas #aboriginalart #aboriginalartist #papunyatula #papunya

18.01.2022 This lovely work is by Patricia Jackson, granddaughter to famous Papunya Tula artist, Walangkura Napanangka. Patricia paints the traditional stories of her country in a contemporary and vibrant style of bold linear designs, circles and fine dot work. Her paintings depict her homeland and show the areas where women would collect bush foods and hold their traditional ceremonies. This land was home to Patricia’s grandmother, who taught her, and her siblings, how to live off the land. She taught them how and where to collect water, food and bush medicine. This painting measures 91 x 76cm, and is priced at $1,500, stretched and ready for hanging. #honeyantgallery #sydneywhatson #aboriginalart #aboriginalartwork #sydneygallery #interiordesignideas

15.01.2022 This exquisite work is by Papunya Tjupi artist, Ada Andy Napaltjarri. Ada paints Yalka, or bush onions, which are a traditional bush food. Bush onions can be eaten raw or cooked after removing the hard casing. The women would perform a traditional ceremony in honour of the bush onion, where they dance and paint their chest and forearms in ceremonial body designs. They also decorate their bodies with feathers and dance with ceremonial objects such as nulla nullas (ceremonia...l dancing baton). This lovely work measures 91 x 51cm, it is stretched and ready for hanging, priced at $990. #honeyantgallery #papunyatjupiarts #sydneygallery #interiordesignideas #sydneywhatson

15.01.2022 Charmaine Pwerle paints ceremonial body paint designs (Awelye), passed down from her grandmother, acclaimed artist, Minnie Pwerle. The women paint each other up using coloured ochre which has been ground up and mixed with animal fat. Using a flat stick they apply the ancient design to the chest, shoulders, breasts and thighs of each other. When all the women are ready they dance and sing the ancient songs associated with their Awelye. Ceremonial body painting is an ancient in...digenous tradition which carries deep spiritual meaning. An aboriginal person is not allowed to use the designs belonging to another group. They must respect the ancient traditions and patterns of everyone. The designs reveal their relationship to their family group, their social position, ancestors, totemic fauna and tracts of country. Once painted up the women begin the spiritual dance and song of their ancestors. Dancing can go on for hours. This is the art of Charmaine Pwerle the ancient ceremony of Awelye which has been handed down, unchanged for tens of thousands of years. This beautiful work measures 90 x 90cm, and is priced at $1,650, stretched and ready for hanging :-) #honeyantgallery #aboriginalart #aboriginalartist #interiordesignideas #sydneygallery #charmainepwerle

13.01.2022 ... keep dreaming :-) #honeyantgallery

13.01.2022 Abie Loy Kemarre paints the bush medicine leaf story in this exquisite work, measuring 120 x 90cm. The bush medicine leaves are collected by the women and are highly prized for their restorative powers as part of traditional health practices. Bush medicine leaves derive from a particular native shrub which grows abundantly in the desert regions of Utopia, north-east of Alice Springs. During the life of the plant, the leaves change colour and exhibit different medicinal proper...ties. Abie’s painting represent the leaves as they float to the ground. When the leaves of the shrub are green they are gathered by the women and ground up using a stone. Then the medicine leaf compound is mixed with water to form a milky solution, which can be used to cure coughs, colds and flu-like symptoms. The leaves can also be used to help heal cuts, bites and rashes, and it is also a useful insect repellent. They can also be made into a mixture to relieve aching joints and headaches. Abie was born in 1972 and developed her fine painting skills by working closely with her artistic grandmother Kathleen Peytarre. This lovely work measures 120 x 90cm, it is stretched and ready for hanging, and priced at $2,400 :-) #honeyantgallery #sydneygallery #interiordesignideas #whatsoninsydney #aboriginalart #aboriginalartist

12.01.2022 Edith Lyons paints the famous Seven Sisters story. Edith lives and paints for Papulankutja Artists in the remote community of Blackstone NT. Her painting tells the ancient story of seven sisters being chased through the desert by a lusty man. He was extremely persistent.... He changed his appearance to enable himself to get close to the women. Eventually the women rose up into the sky to escape his unwanted attention. You can see a cluster of seven bright stars up in the night sky - this is "The Seven Sisters star constellation, also know as Peliades. The man followed them up into the heavens. He is still following them. He is the very bright star know as Orion. This spectacular, bold painting measures 152 x 102cm, and it is stretched and ready for hanging :-) For further information please contact Rae on 0409 262 023 or email: [email protected] #honeyantgallery #interiordesignideas #aboriginalart #aboriginalartist #aboriginalartist #noosaartgallery #sunshinecoastartists #brisbanegallery

11.01.2022 This gorgeous work is by Papunya Tjupi artist, Pam Brown. She paints her country, Nyumannu. Nyumannu is a Dingo Dreaming place to the south east of Kintore. It is said that if you sleep at this place you will dream of the ancestral dingo puppies. The story goes that if you remove one of the gleaming stones found there the ancestral puppies will come to you in your dreams until you return it to the place it belongs. This lovely work measures 71 x 30cm, priced at $690, beauti...fully stretched and ready for hanging :-) #aboriginalart #honeyantgallery #sydneygallery #interiordesignideas #whatsoninsydney

09.01.2022 This striking work is by Jill Kelly Kemarre. She paints ‘ ntange' - seeds. Jill reflects on the days when edible seeds were an important part of their diet providing a valuable source of protein, oils, vitamins and fibre. She remembers the days when the old women spent a considerable amount of time and effort gathering and treating seeds in some way before they could be eaten. They used methods such as ‘yandying', a labour intensive process to separate the seeds from the husk...s. Some seeds had to be roasted before they could be ground into a paste before cooking on hot coals. Others could be soaked in water to make a sweet drink, and others could be used for medicinal purposes. Seventy odd plants species can be used for their edible seeds, the two most important being from grasses and wattles. This mesmerising work measures 150 x 100cm, and it is stretched and ready for hanging :-) #honeyantgallery #aboriginalartists #aboriginalart #interiordesignideas #sydneygallery #whatsonsydney #interiordesignsydney #utopiaart

08.01.2022 Absolutely beautiful, fresh works by Belinda Golder! Perfect for spring! :-) Belinda Golder paints the Bush Plum Dreaming story that she inherits from her grandmother, senior artist, Polly Ngale. The bush plum only fruits for a few weeks of the year. In the Dreaming story the bush plum seeds were blown all over the ancestral lands by the winds and they bore fruit on Utopia lands. The first anwekety of the Dreaming grew there and became part of the food of the Anmatyerre people. The Dreaming story of the seeds and the ripening of the fruits are all included in the story of Bush Plum. #honeyantgallery #sydneygallery #aboriginalartist #aboriginalartwork #interiordesignideas

07.01.2022 This striking painting is by Gumbya Girgiba. She lives in Patjarr in the Gibson Desert, Western Australia. This is one of Australia’s most remote communities. The people living there are some of the last to be contacted by Europeans. Gumbya depicts the country around Well 33 on the Canning Stock Route. The Canning Stock Route is the longest historic stock route in the world, running 1,780 Kms through the desert region of Western Australia. It was created as a stock route ...between the towns of Halls Creek in the East Kimberley and Wiluna in central Western Australia. The original purpose for the track was to bring cattle from the Kimberley region to the gold mining area around Wiluna. Canning’s first survey team of 1906 were the first white people to enter the Great Sandy Desert, as they looked to find a series of waterholes that could be opened up as wells to create the Canning Stock Route. Their story relates how the first contacts were made between white settlers and the people of the Great Sandy Desert. Stretched and ready for hanging, this painting measures 152 x 50cm, and is located at our Noosa home gallery. We welcome your interest - Rae on 0409262023. #aboriginalartwork #honeyantgallery #interiordesignideas #aboriginalart #noosaart #sunshinecoastartists #brisbanegallery

07.01.2022 This superb work is by Debra Young Nakamarra. Debra comes from an important and influential family of artists from the Western Desert region. She was born in 1964 to parents Walangkura Napanangka and Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula, both famous artists. Debra began painting in 1984 along with her sisters, under the guidance of her mother who taught them their Dreaming stories. The women’s stories which Debra is known for share the sacred knowledge of women’s places where Dreamtime s...tories are shared and handed down through the generations. She focuses on the geographical features of the Western Desert around Kiwirrkurra and Papunya, depicting rock holes, sandhills and caves. The traditional iconography represents meeting places and the landscape encompasses all the important business which occurs at these sites. Debra mixes the traditional designs with layers of thickly applied dots, and as you view the artworks you get a sense of the important stories which are shared through the artwork on multiples levels - through the land and the emotional connection between women as they share their stories and participate in ceremonies. This beautiful work measures 150 x 60cm, priced at $2,900, stretched and ready to hang :-) #honeyantgallery #sydneygallery #whatsoninsydney #interiordesignideas #aboriginalart #aboriginalartist

04.01.2022 This beautifully executed painting is by Jacqueline Phillipus Napurulla. Jacqueline depicts the Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) at Kalipinypa, North-east of Kintore. Kalipinypa is Jacqueline's father's country. The painting tells the story of the rain and hail making ceremony for the site of Kalipinypa. Ancestral forces are invoked to bring on a powerful storm with lightning, thunderclouds and rain sending a deluge to rejuvenate the earth, filling the rock holes, clay pans an...d creeks and creating new life and growth upon the land. Jacqueline has used imagery to depict different parts of the landscape and story from this site. The curved shapes are puuli (hills) and tali (sand hills), the lone circle is a waterhole, the lines are creeks and kapi (water), the small repeated oval shapes are lightning and the horizontal bars represent body paint. This lovely work measures 122 x 46cm, and is priced at $1,200, stretched and ready to hang :-) #honeyantgallery #aboriginalart #aboriginalartist #interiordesignideas #papunyatjupiart #sydneygallery

03.01.2022 Spinifex grasses have grown in Australia for over 15 million years. Long appreciated by Indigenous Australians, Spinifex grasses thrive in sand dunes and play an important role in the entire sand dune ecosystem by stabilising the land. They cover nearly one-third of the Australian continent, mostly in hot, dry areas with poor soils and have been used for a variety of purposes by Indigenous people for thousands of years.... Some species produce a sticky resin, which Aboriginal people have used as an adhesive. But spinifex also has food, medicinal and architectural uses. These grasses have had to adapt to changing climates, extremely poor soils, high temperature and low rainfall, which has led to their unusual structure and composition. Scientists have also recently discovered the superpowers of spinifex. The grass could potentially be used to create stronger latex gloves and condoms, as well as more durable seals and tyres. Amazing! - and there’s certainly no shortage of supply ! #honeyantgallery

02.01.2022 Bush foods & medicine Aboriginal people invented countless ways to yield food and bush medicine from Australia’s landscape. They fished, hunted, rendered poisonous seeds edible, turned certain moths and grubs into delicious meals, made sweet drinks from native honey and nectar, ground grass seeds to bake an early form of damper. They used tannins to treat inflammation and alkaloids to relieve pain; extracted antiseptics such as tea tree oil to cure infections; and harvested l...atex to treat ulcers and skin conditions. Although the remedies Indigenous people know and use have been around since time immemorial, contemporary science is now paying attention to the benefits of traditional and holistic healing and considering how its application fits into modern medicine. #honeyantgallery #aboriginalart #sydneygallery

02.01.2022 This magnificent painting, measuring 152 x 122cm, is by Rene Sundown of Iwantja Arts. Rene was born in the bush land that surrounds Mt Ebenezer. Rene and her two older brothers were raised in the bush by her mother while her father worked as a stockman. When the rain would come we used to go hunting for rabbit and malu (kangaroo) with my father. He was always catching goanna and echidnas; we used to pull out all the sharp ends and cook them on the fire. They were my favour...ite, very tasty! A salty creek used to run near to Erldunda Station and me and my brothers always wanted to be swimming there. Rene began painng at Iwantja Arts in the year 2000, painting memories of the long walks she would take along the sandhills and the salty river water near Erldunda Station that she played in as a child. Her paintings use a simple colour palette and gain complexity through her confident brush marks and intriguing iconography. Rene’s paintings evoke images of desert grasses, hidden pathways and sun-cracked riverbeds. #honeyantgallery #aboriginalart #aboriginalartist #sydneygallery #whatsoninsydney #contemporaryart #interiordesignideas

01.01.2022 This absolutely magnificent work is by Stanley Douglas of Tjala Arts. Stanley depicts one of the most famous stories- that of the Seven Sisters. This creation story is about the constellations of Pleiades and Orion. The sisters are Pleiades and the other star, Orion, is said to be ’Nyiru’, described as a bad or lusty man. Nyiru is forever chasing the sisters as it is said he wants to marry the eldest sister. Nyiru is trying to catch them by using magic. He turns himself... into the most tempting bush tomatoes for the sisters to eat, and transforms into the most beautiful fig tree for the sisters to camp under. However, the sisters are too clever for Nyiru. They outwit him as they are knowledgeable about his magic. Eventually the sisters escape into the sky forming the constellation Pleiades. Nyiru can also be seen in the sky as Orion, hovering nearby as he continues to pursue the sisters. Stanley is a distinguished elder in his community of Tjala. This wonderful work measures 153 x 122cm. We welcome your interest :-) #honeyantgallery #whatsoninsydney #sydneygallery #aboriginalart #aboriginalartist #interiordesignideas