Exhibition Catalogue
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Artwork | Artist | Title | Story | Size & Material |
 | Olive Boddington | Southern Cross | If you are in the bush at night and don’t know where you are – Look up to the Southern Cross it will guide you. Also you will see in Jan-Feb the shape of the emu head starting to form . The eye of the emu is the little star in the southern cross. On land there’s a man showing his family and telling them about the Southern Cross and the Emu. | 120x76 Linen |
| Olive Boddington | Saturn & Milkyway | Saturn is one of the stars I always thought and wondered about, and what it was like. I couldn’t see throught the telescope so I listened to the other artists what they talked about. I can picture it in my mind with the two rings on each side and saturn with the ring around and it’s colours. | 58x120 Linen |
| Olive Boddington | Yarluwarri (The Seven Sisters) | When you look up at the seven sisters you will see them very clear only one is always dull. The dull one is the one the old man is trying to catch but the six sisters are calling and telling her is hurry and stay close to them. | 68 x118 Linen |
 | Olive Boddington | Trip to Boolardy | The circles are the places we’ve been to on the trip – Mullewa, Boolardy, SKA site, Wooleen, Murchison settlement and Geraldton. The circles are the people. The Murchison river with the fishes. One circle has a star init – it’s the morning star. And all the colours of our land in the background. | 78.5x119 Linen |
 | Manapa Butler | Seven sisters | The seven sisters are represented in the sky as Pleiades with the man (that naughty Wati looking for a wife) represented by a star in Orion chasing them accross the sky. Pleiades rises in the warmer months of spring into summer and the man keeps chasing them accross the sky. | 75x118 canvas |
 | Manapa Bulter | Seven sisters and that one man | There was one man and seven sisters. That one man chased the seven sisters. | 85x120 linen |
 | Margaret Whitehurst | Meteorites |
| 116x132.5 linen |
 | Margaret Whitehurst | Emu in the sky | The emu in the sky is a sign to tell us when its time to go hunting for emu eggs. When it’s the season for eggs the whole community goes out looking. As children it was always a competition to see who could find the first nest and the most eggs. Then we went home were Mum always made a cake out of the first egg and the others were made into omelets. The emu egg is like gold to our people. | 111x116 Linen |
 | Margaret Whitehurst | Emu in the sky 11 | The seven sisters and the emu are signs for nesting time and to go out and collect. | 58x56 Canvas |
 | Margaret Whitehurst | Boolardy Cogla | Cogla growing in Boolardy Country | 57x57 Canvas |
 | Margaret Whitehurst | Nesting Season | The Emu in the sky is a sign to tell us when it’s time to go hunting for Emu eggs. When it’s the season for eggs the whole community goes out looking. As children it was always a competition to see who could find the first nest and the most eggs. Then we went home where Mum always made a cake out of the first egg and the others were made into omlets. The Emu egg is like gold to our people. | 109x117 Linen |
 | Sonya Edney | Emu Egg Time | When you look up in the milky way, you can see the yalibirri sitting on his nest. That’s when you know its time to go and look for the eggs. | 69.5x120 Linen |
| Sony Edney | Seven Sisters and the Hunter | The seven sisters lived up in the sky and they used to come down to the land, to the waterhole. They used to go swimming, and to get water. One day one old man could hear the noise of the women, so he crept up and was peeping on them. He noticed that they had different features that he had ever seen. One day when they came back, he was waiting for them at the waterhole. That old man started chasing them, so they ran and flew back to the sky at night. He caught the last one. That’s why there is always one behind as you look in the sky today – you can see six together, and one star by herself in the night sky. | 69x120 linen |
 | Christine Collard | Seven jijas | Seven jijas reflecting down over Yamaji Country onto the water | 90 x112 Linen |
 | Christine Collard | Yalibirri Tracking | Emu (Yallibiri) walking near waterhole of community | 50x57 Canvas |
 | Justine Hamlett | Kookaburra Dreaming |
| 66x57 Canvas |
 | Debra Maher | Seven Sisters | The painting is of Seven sisters and all other stars st night. | 57.5x40 Canvas |
 | Krocette | How the Southern Cross was formed | The night Spirit man wanted to fill in a ugly gap in the night sky. So he caught 5 cockatoos. He placed them in a large sling shot and catapulted them into the night sky. When the birds got free they lost their way back. So on a clear starry night in the southern sky you might catch a glance of the five cockatoos now called the Southern Cross. | 48x47 Canvas |
 | Teresa Lawson | De Grey Stock Route |
| 59.5x70 Canvas |
 | Wendy Jackamarra | Boolardy Country | This painting is about our artists trip to Boolardy Station in the Murchison. The three different rivers, Wooleen Station and the lake Murchison settlement and back home to Mullewa. | 73x49.5 Canvas |
 | Wendy Jackamarra | Lightening | This story is about my grandchildren talking whenever there is thunder and lightening. They always say that their is Pop JJ and Nana Maggie – my father and mother. | 75x120 |
 | Barbara Merritt | Bright Stars | We look at stars to remind us of lots of things on earth. | 47x30 Canvas |
 | Barbara Merritt | Jewellry Box | The jewellry box with it’s burst of colours in the night sky. | 30x29.5 Canvas |
 | Barbara Merritt | Southern Cross | When we are lost the Southern Cross guides us home . | 30x30 Canvas |
 | Barbara Merritt | Seven Sisters | Its a well known story in the Aboriginal world – the Seven Sisters and the Hunter. The hunter who is in the Orion is chasing the seven sisters and one of them which is sick is the one the Hunteris wanting. The sick sister is the one star on its own a little bit away from the rest. | 110x111 Linen |
 | Barbara Merritt | Lepus Star | This is my painting about the Lepus Star which is in the constellation in the southern hemisphere. It is also known as the Hara and is just south of Orion. | 108x116 Linen |
 | Gemma Merritt | Seven Sisters | The spirit hands are helping the Seven Sisters go through the sky to get away from the Hunter. | 122.5x135.5 linen |
 | Charmaine Green | Land + Sky | The land and sky are connected in many ways which all connect back to the culture of Yamaji people . My Mother and Aunties taught us kids about the sky and how we can read it to tell us about bush tucker – especially when emu nesting time was near. Our families would then go out from Mullewa for the day . On these trips my mothers brother ( my Uncle) would lead all us smaller kids and teach everyone (girls and boys) how to track the emu for eggs. How to recognise the different tracks when the emu was trying to trick and lead others away from their nest. As we got older we were expected to hand this information on through the generations. I paint to keep these stories alive and to remind everyone of the responsibilities we have in this changing world towards our cultural knowledge. | 1330 x 1670 Canvas |
 | Charmaine Green | Moon and Heat | Yamaji people use the sky to tell weather patterns . You can sometimes see the ring around the moon which meant to my people that it would be hot . Other northern Yamaji have told me that this also meant rain. This painting is about the connection of the moon rings to the heat across patches of the land . | 85 x 123 Linen |
 | Charmaine Green | Boolardy Country | The trip to Boolardy SKA site was a hot one but the colour of the country was intense and rich. The breakaway country of the actual site has lots of rich colours. This painting is inspired by my trip to the Boolardy site and then to Boolardy station with all the other artists. | 110 x 74 Linen |
 | Melissa Jacobs | Spirit of the sisters | The seven beautiful sisters was loved by everyone, they were smart girls. One day when they were out collecting wood for the evening fire, they were chased by the devil maman (man) through the country. He tried to grab the Sisters but they got passed him, except for the last one – He got hold of her and held her tight. The girls were so terrified for their little sister that they fled into the safety of the sky, screaming ‘allowah, jurnta, allowah, jurnta’. The little Sister followed but was hurt. They had out smarted the devil maman, he was not happy , they would have to stay there and never come back. The people were so sad they had lost Their beautiful Sisters. Now they are together as the Seven Sisters as ‘jurnta’(stars) in the night sky watching over the people. | 29x120(pr) linen |
No image available | Melissa Jacobs | Spirit Connections | We are so connected to this Country and Universe that when we die some of us will become Stars. Just as a falling star is thought of as a newborn baby, that is where we will return as spirits once again. | 69x120 linen |
 | Margaret Danishewsky | The Seven Sisters | The is a story that was told to me by my Mother when I was little and we lived in the bush near a place called Jerramumgup in Western Australia. Many years ago in theDreamtime there was seven beautiful sisters who lived in the sky. Sometimes during the day they would come down to the land and play amongst the trees and the flowers and when it was hot they would find a cool water hole and swm in it. There was one water hole they always wanted to swim in but they never dared to because there were some Spirit men who lived close to this and thye were known to steal young girls to be their brides if they could. One day however the Seven Sisters were resting under a shady tree because it was avery hot day and they could see the Spirit Mens hole as it was close to where they were and looked so inviting and cool. They could not see the Spirit Men any where and they decided that they would take a chance and go for a quick swim . The water was lovely and clear and cool and as they played in the waterhole they never saw the Spirit Men creeping up on them until the last second. Then with screams of fear the Seven Sisters ran out of the water and into the sky. The six older sisters were well away from the Spirit Men but the youngest was not as strong as her older Sisters and was falling behind , so her older Sisters slowed down and waited for her to catch up. This is why when you look up to the sky on a clear night you can see the six older SIsters waiting for the youngest one to catch up with them as they race across the night sky. | 76x76 Canvas |
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 | Gemma Merritt | Galatic Energy | Sound waves thru the skies – Scientists at Boolardy are listening for them. |
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 | Gemma Merritt | The Sun | We need to Sun. The sun is our warmth and light. |
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 | Craig Chook Pickett | Hands of Creation | The hands that created the Serpent that created the waterholes and rivers. This painting is about the Serpent travelling to his next destination . |
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No image available | Craig Chook Pickett | Orion Nebular | The Orion nebular with the Southern Cross and Aboriginal songline. |
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 | Barbara Comeagain | Meteiorites | This is my interpretation of meteorites travelling through space. | 790 x1193 Linen |
 | Margaret Whitehurst | Journey to Boolardy | This painting is about my trip to Boolardy and country we travelled through. | 119.5 x 65.5 |
 | Wendy Jackamarra | Jewellry Box | This is the jewellry box, a group of stars that when you look through a telescope you see lots of colours. | 95 x120 Linen |
 | Ruby McIntosh | Blue Mood | A blue lagoon of silence and radiance can soothe a sinking sole a brilliance glow of illuminous colour can hypotise you and off into dreamland you go. A glowing moon can cast a spell on you and keep you up all night. Feeling blue does not mean you are always sad. Ablue mood under a blue moon can swing your sadness into self healing and happiness. | 54.5 x 47.5 |
 | Ruby McIntosh | Sunset Over the Hills | Many colours light up the sky, upon a setting sun. You want to capture the beauty but its gone before you know it could. I think if only I could hold those coloursand put them on my canvas – sadly they disappear never to return. | 52.5 x 44.5 |
 | David Krocette | Celebrations | Greeting and celebrations of the sky spirits as they welcome the great rainbow serpent into their sky space as it entered the sky world. | 1140 x 1070 Linen |
 | Barbara Comeagain | Emu in the Sky |
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No image available | Cheree Chalk | Divine Balance | God created perfect balance of the suns affect on the earth. Its placed at a perfect distance in order that we don’t burn up or freeze. It helps to sustain life on earth. The red stones represent Gods presence . The circle represents Gods existance, its eternal no beginning, no end. Gods promise was the earth will remain for man forever. | 141x132 Canvas |
 | Debra Maher | Night Sky 2 | As you look in the sky you will see a little white patch- but it is seven stars we call them the seven sisters. | 74.5x53 linen |
 | Susan Merry | The Trip to Boolardy | The big circle is Geraldton, Mullewa, Pindar and all the other ones are the stations we went pass before we got to Boolardy. The green is the rivers. Blue is the road. Brown is the earth , and the animals we saw on the way. | 126x80 |
 | Susan Merry | Emu in the Sky | Emu in the sky dreaming | 69.5x61 linen |
 | Debra Maher | Stars | This painting is about the stars (jewellry box), the milky way and the seven sisters. | 67x119 Linen |
 | Charmaine Green | Moon Rings | MY old people said that when there are rings around the moon it is going to be a hot summer or times. This painting connects the moon to weather patterns. | 33x49 Canvas |
 | Wendy Jackamarra | Colours-country | This painting is about all the colours of our country. Brown is for the ground . Sand, dirt. Green for the grass and the leaves. Blue for the water and the sky. Yellow for the colours of some of the flowers and plants. The tracks are of the emu walking along. | 78x69 Linen |
 | Wendy Jackamarra | Seven Sisters | The seven sisters and the milky way. The small circles with the star are the two other galaxies in the universe. | 51x94.5 linen |
 | Debra Maher | Night sky | My painting is about all our stars and without the moon, sun and earth there is no stars. | 80x120 linen |
 | Bruce Bradfield | Sky 1 |
| 3m x 38cm Silk |
 | Bruce Bradfield | Sky 2 |
| 2m x 76cm Silk |
 | Karen Comeagain | Seven Sisters | The seven sisters are hiding amongst the stars from a man. This man fell in love with one of the sisters but she did nto wnat him. So he chased them with spears trying to kill them. There is one dull star . This star is the sister he wanted and her sisters are hiding her behind them to protect her from him. | 74.5 x 64 Canvas |
 | Sonya Edney | Boolardy Station | The circle/yellow/orange are the hills that lie near Boolardy Station. The small dots are the different patterns of the land. | 51.5 x 32.5 Canvas |
 | Gemma Merritt | Star Explosion |
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 | Barbara Comeagain | Emu Egg Season | When the emu appears in the Milky Way its time they (emu) start laying their eggs. | 38.5 x 32 cm Canvas |
 | Jan Ronan Williams | The Southern Star |
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 | Sam Maher | The Southern Cross |
| 70 x 125 Linen |
 | Karen Comeagain | The Comet | While camping at the Murchison River with my family, located north of Mullewa, we heard my uncle and brother shouting as they returned from kangaroo shooting "Look at the Sky". We all looked, and there it was, going through the sky. Lighting the sky up. | 70 x 115 Linen |
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 | Wendy Jackamarra | Saturn | This is saturn – when we see it through the telescope . | 30.5x37 canvas |
 | Wendy Jackamarra | Campfire | Sitting by the campfire with the scientist on our Boolardy trip | 34 x27 canvas |
 | Melissa Jacobs | Emus Nest | The Emu is the Stars is a sign that Emus are nesting and shows the time when the chicks will be hatching. For thousand of years Aboriginal Australians have known all the stars , we have stories to link with our history and beliefs, recognise the phases of the Moon and could also identity new arrivals , such as comets, in the night sky. This important objct in the night sky is the black matter between stars and bands of the Milky Way – it is a ’shadow' caused by the dust and gas clouds of space. | silk |
 | Margaret Whitehurst | colours of Boolardy | It was 45 degrees and the heat was reflecting off the red rocks of the breakaway. We stood on top of the breakaway , the sky was clear , willy willys lifting the red earth high into the sky. |
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 | Margaret Whitehurst | Sun Shining on the Seven sisters | When the sun rises the seven sisters disappear from our view but they are still there and the sun is shining on them. So they can shine brightly at night. |
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 | Ruby McIntosh | Min Min Light | A eerie red glow that takes the shape of a huge ball. Stories of this light they call the min min light – both scarey and wonderous. It may come a dancing over the hills or plains, darting across the sandhills and the coast, following your vehicle chasing the weary traveller. Stories are also told of how this light had caught the attention of inquitisive and unsuspecting children who have followed the min min light and never to be seen again. I have seen this light , they call the min min light. I knew then not to let my curiosity take over. I felt scared and watched the glowing red light til it soared away behind hills and trees. I find it a good story to pass onto my grannies when sitting around a campfire. I watch the noisy children gather together and then speak in whispers. But I watch the nightime sky and I watch the children and make sure thay are safe in bed long time before lay down. | 123x90 linen |
 | Nicole Dickerson | Family Connection |
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No image available | Margaret Simpson | The Milky Way | This story is about the Milky Way. |
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 | Margaret Simpson | Hayley’s Comet | This story is about the Hayley’s Comets | 55.5 x 47 Canvas |
 | Charmaine Simpson | The sky | The eclipse, milky way and a new star | 46.5 x 53 Canvas |
No image available | Charmaine Simpson | The moon and stars with Hayley’s Comet | As titled | 46 x 52.5 Canvas |
 | Susan Merry | Seven Sisters | As you look into the sky you will see a little whit e patch – buts its seven stars we call them the seven sisters. | 30.3x37 |
 | Barabara Merritt | Moonlight Walking | This painting is about the brilliance of moon rays on some nights and the magic of moomlight walking. | 39 x 56.5 Canvas |
 | Margaret Simpson | The Milky Way | As titled | 47 x 55.5 Canvas |
 | Angeletta Simpson | Seven sisters and milky way with falling stars | As titled | 49.5 x 57.5 Canvas |
 | Angeletta Simpson | Milkyway and Galaxy. | As titled | 51 x 57 Canvas |
 | Maxine Gregory-Vietch | In Awe of the Sky | I lay my head down at night under the stars so bright. They bring us many stories through our kin as they all know where we have been. We see our stars oh all so bright . We are always told to follow that light. They guide us and show us the way forever where we will always stay. They shine so bright just like a light. We will never go out of sight. Our spirits will live on through the rays and our souls will last till the final day. Then we be that shining light . To glow for our people throughout the night. | 60x109 |
 | Julie Kelly | Fire in the Sky |
| 57 x 39.5 |
 | Ruby McIntosh |
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 | Barbara Merritt | Formax | This is Traingulum Australae – at triangular constellation in the southern sky. | 50x50 Canvas |
 | Wendy Jackamarra | Trip to Boolardy |
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 | Jan Ronan Williams | Untitled |
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 | Gwen Rackabula | Untitled |
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