Gallery

Barbara Merritt: Seven Sisters

110x111 Linen

It’s 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.

Olive Boddington: Trip to Boolardy

78.5x119 Linen

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 in it – it’s the morning star. And all the colours of our land in the background.

Margaret Whitehurst: Meteorites

116x132.5 linen

Wendy Jackamarra & Edward Ryan: Trip to Boolardy

Debra Maher: Seven Sisters

57.5x40 Canvas

The painting is of Seven sisters and all other stars st night.

Karen Comeagain: Hayley’s Comet

70 x 115 Linen

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.

Charmaine Green: Land and Sky

1330 x 1670 Canvas

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. [full text in catalogue]

Barbara Comeagain: Emu in the Sky

David Krocette: Celebrations

1140 x 1070 Linen

Greeting and celebrations of the sky spirits as they welcome the great rainbow serpent into their sky space as it entered the sky world.

Gemma Merritt: Galactic Energy

Sound waves thru the skies – Scientists at Boolardy are listening for them.