Artlandish Aboriginal Art

14/04/2026

In Minyma Malilu, Carolanne Ken shares a powerful story passed down through her maternal grandmother, a story of an ancestral woman searching across Country for her daughter. Carried through generations of Pitjantjatjara women, this deeply significant narrative lives on through Carolanne’s work. Through bold reds, deep blues and intricate dotting, she transforms the canvas into a living map of landscape, shelter and cultural memory across Country, bringing the presence of this ancestral figure vividly to life across the surface.

This original painting is created in acrylic on linen and measures 100 cm x 150 cm.

🎨 Please find all details of this stunning original painting here

✨ https://artlandish.com/ckmm19449

🖼️ Visual Description
A striking contrast of deep reds and vibrant blues immediately draws the viewer into this painting. The red landscape appears alive with movement, layered with thousands of tiny dots that create texture and rhythm across the surface. These rich tones evoke the warmth and presence of the land, while the sweeping lines and curved pathways guide the eye across the canvas like tracks etched into Country over time.

Circular forms appear throughout the composition, some small and clustered, others large and commanding. The largest roundel sits prominently on the right side of the canvas, radiating outward in rings of white, crimson and pink, giving the sense of a powerful place or site holding deep presence and memory.

In contrast, areas of deep blue introduce a cooling balance, suggesting the surrounding landscape and spiritual energy connected to the site. Fine white dotting traces paths and outlines forms, weaving the elements together and creating a sense of movement, travel and story unfolding across the terrain.

The overall effect is both dynamic and contemplative, as though the viewer is seeing an aerial view of Country layered with memory, journey and ancestral presence.

📜 Artwork Story
In this painting, Carolanne shares the story of Minyma Malilu, an ancestral woman whose story has been passed down to her through her maternal grandmother. Malilu travelled across the land searching for her daughter, who had eloped with a man considered the wrong partner under Aboriginal kinship law.

During her search, Malilu found a raised area of land where she could watch and wait for her daughter. There she dug a cave into the earth to shelter herself. This cave is believed to hold the spirit and power of Malilu, and it remains an important cultural site connected to the story.

Within the painting, the large roundels represent this cave. The sweeping, fluid brush marks echo the digging motions Malilu made as she carved the shelter into the land.

Pitjantjatjara women are custodians of this story and continue to visit the cave. They sing songs to Malilu and also sing love songs for their husbands as they travel, asking for their protection and safe return. Through these practices the story remains alive, carried forward through culture, ceremony and connection to Country.

👤 About Carolanne
Carolanne Ken was born in 1971 and lives in Kaltjiti, formerly known as Fregon, in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands. She attended school in Kaltjiti before completing high school in Adelaide in 1986.

Carolanne began painting in 2004 at Kaltjiti Arts. Before becoming a full time artist she had worked in the art centre studio, gaining experience and observing other artists before fully committing to her own practice.

She has one son, Clive, and a granddaughter. Carolanne’s mother, Kunmanara Ken, was also an artist at the Kaltjiti Art Centre for many years, and the creative tradition continues through this family connection.

Carolanne’s paintings most often focus on the story of Malilu, the ancestral Pitjantjatjara creation figure connected to her grandmother’s Country. The story tells of Malilu travelling across the land searching for her daughter who had eloped. When she finally located them, Malilu used her piti, or coolamon, to dig a cave and create a large wiltja, or shelter.

In Carolanne’s paintings the roundels represent Malilu’s cave, while the pathways and arcs mark the routes travelled by Malilu and the women who journeyed to the site. These places and stories hold deep spiritual and cultural importance for Carolanne.

Her technique begins with mapping out the composition through expressive brushwork. She then carefully refines the circular forms and pathways using intricate dotting, building layers of detail and movement across the canvas.

🏅 Awards and Recognition
Carolanne is a highly respected and widely collected artist who has participated in numerous exhibitions. In 2019, her work was projected onto the Sydney Opera House as part of the Badu Gili light projection, meaning “water light” in the language of the Gadigal people, the traditional custodians of Bennelong Point.

🎨 All the wonderful artists we work with are paid upfront for their incredible creations, acknowledging the immense talent and dedication they bring to each artwork.
🏷️ Every artwork comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, verifying its originality.
🌍 Free worldwide shipping.
✨ Each artwork includes a detailed description of the Dreaming or Story that inspired its creation, along with the artist's biography. 🖌️
🖼️ Every painting is an original, with no reproductions or prints, ensuring the irreplaceable nature and value of each creation. 💫
🔄 We offer a no-questions-asked return policy to ensure confidence in your purchase.

12/04/2026

🎨 Lidwina Tepomitari Puruntatameri’s Kulama Design is a striking ceremonial work that reflects one of the most important cultural traditions of the Tiwi people, capturing the rhythm, gathering, and cultural meaning of the Kulama ceremony through layered ochre forms and repeating circular motifs.

This magnificent artwork is painted in ochre on canvas and measures 180cm x 120cm.
🔗 Please find all details of this original ochre beauty at
✨ https://artlandish.com/lntpkd25207

🖼️ Visual Description
The composition is built around strong circular forms that echo the gathering of dancers and singers during the Kulama ceremony. These circles sit at the heart of the work, surrounded by fields of carefully placed dots that create a sense of rhythm and movement across the surface. The patterns radiate outward, reflecting the collective energy of the ceremony as participants come together in preparation for the ritual.

The earthy ochre palette connects the work closely to traditional Tiwi painting practice, while the layered patterns guide the eye across the canvas. As the viewer follows the repeating marks and shapes, the painting reveals a powerful visual rhythm that mirrors the movement and unity of people gathering for Kulama.

📜 Artwork Story
Kulama is one of the most significant ceremonies of the Tiwi people and centres on the preparation of a poisonous yam which must be carefully treated before it can be eaten. During the ceremony, dancers and singers gather in a circle while the yam is prepared, a moment reflected in the circular forms that appear throughout the painting.

According to Tiwi knowledge, the ceremony was first given to the Tiwi people by the Nyingawi, small spirit beings that appear within Tiwi mythology. Kulama celebrates both life and food and traditionally takes place at the end of the wet season.

The Tiwi knows when the ceremony should begin by watching the moon. When the final full moon of the wet season rises with a yellow halo surrounding it, this is understood as the signal that Japarra, the moon man, is ready and that the Kulama ceremony can commence.

This artwork is accompanied by a Munupi Artists Certificate of Authenticity and Provenance.

👤 About Nina
Lidwina, known as Nina, Tepomitari Puruntatameri began developing her artistic skills as a teenager while painting traditional spear designs alongside her father, Romuald Puruntatameri. These early experiences helped build both her technical ability and her strong connection to Tiwi artistic traditions.

Over the years Nina has worked across a diverse range of mediums including bark painting, screen printing, hand painted linen, etching and linocut. Her strength in printmaking was recognised nationally when she received the Award for New Medium at the 1993 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in Darwin.

Artistic ability runs strongly through her family. Her father’s work is represented in the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, while her grandfather Paddy Teeampi Tepomitari Puruntatameri and her aunt Rosina Puantulura, both respected Tiwi carvers, are represented in the Melbourne Museum collection. Nina’s own work is now held in significant public and private collections throughout Australia and internationally.

🏅 Awards and Recognition
Nina’s work has been widely exhibited both within Australia and internationally and she has been recognised repeatedly through major Indigenous art awards. She has been preselected several times for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, and in 2013 received the Wandjuk Marika Memorial Award.

Her work is represented in major collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Melbourne Museum, Artbank, as well as international collections in Europe, Japan, and the United States.

🎨 All the wonderful artists we work with are paid upfront for their incredible creations, acknowledging the immense talent and dedication they bring to each artwork.
🏷️ Every artwork comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, verifying its originality.
🌍 Free worldwide shipping.
✨ Each artwork includes a detailed description of the Dreaming or Story that inspired its creation, along with the artist's biography. 🖌️
🖼️ Every painting is an original, with no reproductions or prints, ensuring the irreplaceable nature and value of each creation. 💫
🔄 We offer a no questions asked return policy to ensure confidence in your purchase.

05/04/2026

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31/03/2026

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24/01/2026

Beautiful "Yam Dreaming" by Jeannie Mills Pwerle looks amazing in so many settings! View all her original artworks in this style at https://artlandish.com/jmp

23/01/2026

This is a rare one. 115 × 20 cm, long and narrow, perfect for those awkward spaces most artworks can’t solve. A striking piece by Janet Golder Kngwarreye, titled Women’s Dreaming. View at https://artlandish.com/jg146

The painting carries the spirit of Alhalkere, Janet’s country. Flowing lines trace Awelye, the women’s ceremonies and body-painting traditions, shown through ochre, charcoal, and ash taken from the land itself. The ‘U’ shapes represent women gathered in ceremony, singing and painting one another in honour of land, ancestors, and community.

Star-like dots depict Atnwelarre (pencil yam), a vital food source, while bold concentric circles speak of Atwakeye (bush orange) and waterholes, places of life and memory held in paint.

A powerful story, in a beautifully uncommon format.

p.s. It can be hung both vertically and horizontally.

24/07/2025

🌟 A Powerful Family of Artists 🌟
We’re excited to showcase the extraordinary creativity of “The Fabulous Numina Sisters” — six gifted artists carrying forward generations of ancestral knowledge through breathtaking contemporary Aboriginal artworks.

This stunning collection is painted in acrylic on linen.
Please find all details here: https://artlandish.com/numinasisters

🖼️ Visual Description
These vibrant works pulse with energy and meaning — from fine brushstrokes that mimic the motion of drifting bush medicine leaves, to structured ceremonial iconography and layered circles representing bush melons and sacred sites. The palette shifts beautifully across pieces, from soft desert pastels to bold blues and fiery reds, creating an immersive visual journey through culture, Country, and story.

📜 Artwork Stories

Women’s Ceremony
This work depicts sacred women’s ceremonial sites, bush foods, and traditional body paint designs. It tells of the sweet bush melon found in Atnwengerrp — once abundant but now rare. Women would harvest the fruit, remove the seeds, and either eat it fresh or dry it for leaner times. During ceremonies, they would paint their bodies with intricate patterns representing the rituals and Dreamings being honoured.

Body Paint and Bush Melons
A dynamic composition of scattered colour patches and symbolic shapes, this artwork also tells the story of the bush melon. The Dreaming is interwoven with ceremonial traditions, as women adorn their bodies with painted lines, circles, and motifs. The piece reflects both the cultural significance of the fruit and the sacred act of body painting in ceremony.

Bush Medicine Leaves
These flowing, rhythmic designs capture the essence of bush medicine plants, gathered by women to make healing paste from boiled resin and kangaroo fat. Used to treat wounds, illnesses, and even repel insects, this traditional remedy is deeply respected. The artworks show the movement of the leaves as they dry and scatter in the wind — a visual echo of their healing presence in the land.

👤 About the Artists – Biography
The Numina Sisters — Selina, Sharon, Jacinta, Lanita, Louise, and Caroline — are the daughters of respected painter and cultural elder Barbara Price Mbtitjana. They belong to the Anmatyerre language group of Central Australia and maintain strong ties to Ti Tree and Stirling Station in the Utopia region. Though based in Darwin, they regularly return to Country to stay connected to their cultural roots.

The sisters come from a long lineage of celebrated artists, including their aunties Gloria and Kathleen Petyarre. Many women in their family — with names like Petyerre, Mambitji, and Numina — are keepers of important Dreamings such as Bush Medicine Leaves, Seeded, Soakage, Women’s Ceremony, and more.

Their artworks not only honour ancestral traditions but also preserve and pass on sacred knowledge. The sisters learned from their grandmothers, mother-aunts, and cousin-sisters — all respected painters who taught them the stories, symbols, and skills from a young age. Their family’s Country in Stirling Station and Utopia continues to inspire every brushstroke.

🏅 Awards and Recognition
Their works are widely collected across the globe, admired for their detail, vibrancy, and cultural depth. The Numina Sisters are known for their ability to blend tradition with innovation, making their art both spiritually resonant and visually captivating.

🎨 All the wonderful artists we work with are paid upfront for their incredible creations, acknowledging the immense talent and dedication they bring to each artwork.
🏷️ Every artwork comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, verifying its originality.
🌍 Free worldwide shipping.
✨ Each artwork includes a detailed description of the Dreaming or Story that inspired its creation, along with the artist's biography. 🖌️
🖼️ Every painting is an original, with no reproductions or prints, ensuring the irreplaceable nature and value of each creation. 💫
🔄 We offer a no-questions-asked return policy to ensure confidence in your purchase.

21/07/2025

🎨 Bursting with colour, energy, and cultural meaning — Yaritji Young’s “Tjala (Honey Ants)” is a breathtaking large-scale celebration of Anangu tradition and ancestral knowledge. This powerful Dreaming story is beautifully captured in her expressive, instantly recognisable style. 🐜🔥

This original is painted in acrylic on linen and measures an impressive 244cm x 182cm.

Please Find All Details Here: https://artlandish.com/yytha

🖼️ Visual Description

Tjala (Honey Ants) is a rich and immersive visual journey through the desert landscape and the sacred underground world of the honey ant. Radiating circular motifs in soft whites, yellows, and warm earthy tones dominate the top of the canvas, layered above a web of black honey ant tunnels and cascading linear markings. These winding tracks, combined with precise dotting and ceremonial iconography, reflect the subterranean complexity of the ants’ world. With bold, rhythmic patterning and vivid colour contrasts, the composition pulses with ancestral meaning — a powerful tribute to Country, knowledge, and survival.

📜 Artwork Story

This painting shares the Tjala Tjukurpa — the Honey Ant Dreaming. Honey ants are an important traditional bush food found in the sandy desert regions of Central Australia, particularly beneath Mulga trees. The Pitjantjatjara people search for tiny drill-like holes in the earth, which signal the presence of the ants’ tunnels — called nyinantu — that run about a metre underground.

Following these tunnels carefully, they find the ipilyka-ipilyka (larvae) and honey ants. The ants’ swollen abdomens are filled with natural honey and are gently bitten off and consumed — once a rare and treasured source of sugar for the desert’s nomadic people.

More than a traditional food source, the Tjala story weaves together cultural memory, survival knowledge, and spiritual connection to the land. It reflects the Anangu people’s deep understanding of their environment and the sacred links between Country, community, and mythology. The story is passed through generations, preserving vital knowledge and identity.

👤 About the Artist – Biography

Yaritji Young, born around 1956 near Pukatja Creek (Ernabella), South Australia, is a senior Pitjantjatjara woman, cultural leader, and one of the most respected artists from the APY Lands. She lives in Amata with her extended family and plays an active role in preserving and promoting traditional law and culture.

Yaritji began painting in the early 2000s with Minymaku Arts (now Tjala Arts), a centre established by the women of Amata. She now paints both there and at Yanda Art Studio, a purpose-built facility on the outskirts of Alice Springs. Over the years, she has also collaborated with the Tjanpi Desert Weavers and exhibited her work widely.

Art runs in her blood — her parents, Mick Wikilyiri and Paniny Mick, were highly respected cultural figures and artists. Yaritji often paints with her sisters — Tjungkara Ken, Sandra Ken, Freda Brady, and Maringka Tunkin — and in 2016, the sisters jointly won the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW for their depiction of the Seven Sisters Dreaming.

Known for her expressive use of colour and intricate designs, Yaritji brings the Tjala Tjukurpa to life in her signature style — blending traditional stories with bold contemporary ex*****on. Her work is admired by collectors around the world and is held in both public and private collections.

🏅 Awards and Recognition

• 2016 – Wynne Prize for Landscape (with her sisters), Art Gallery of NSW
• Featured in major exhibitions with Tjala Arts and Tjanpi Desert Weavers
• Recognised for her contributions to cultural preservation and contemporary Aboriginal art

🎨 All the wonderful artists we work with are paid upfront for their incredible creations, acknowledging the immense talent and dedication they bring to each artwork.
🏷️ Every artwork comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, verifying its originality.
🌍 Free worldwide shipping.
✨ Each artwork includes a detailed description of the Dreaming or Story that inspired its creation, along with the artist's biography. 🖌️
🖼️ Every painting is an original, with no reproductions or prints, ensuring the irreplaceable nature and value of each creation. 💫
🔄 We offer a no-questions-asked return policy to ensure confidence in your purchase.

17/07/2025

✨ A Profound Connection to Country ✨
“Ancestors – Dry Season” by Sarrita King is a powerful expression of the enduring presence of those who walked the land before us. Painted in rich earth tones, this original artwork spans 170cm x 90cm and is created in acrylic on linen.

Please find all details here 👉 https://artlandish.com/sk156

🖼️ Visual Description
Intricately layered with fine dot work, this stunning piece evokes the Australian landscape in the dry season. Concentric circles, pathways and natural formations weave together in a visual language that speaks of ancient markings, waterways, and the tracks of animals and people. The palette reflects the arid earth—deep browns, warm reds, and soft creams—capturing the spirit and stillness of the land when water retreats and the memory of ancestors deepens.

📜 Artwork Story
In this work, Sarrita King explores the legacy of her ancestors—those who have passed on but continue to guide the present. The layered dot patterns symbolise ancient impressions left upon the land over countless generations, interwoven with modern patterns such as animal tracks, human pathways, and plant life. These markings reflect continuity and survival. Beneath it all flow the timeless waterways—lifelines that have nourished land, people, and stories throughout time. These same waters sustained Sarrita’s ancestors, now part of the earth itself.

👤 About the Artist – Biography
Born in Adelaide on March 5, 1988, Sarrita King is a proud Gurindji woman and the daughter of renowned artist William King Jungala. Her upbringing in Darwin, close to her ancestral lands, profoundly shaped her deep connection to Aboriginal culture and the environment. Influenced by the extremes of the Top End’s climate, she began painting at 16, capturing elements like fire, lightning, storms, and sand hills with a style that fuses traditional dotting and contemporary techniques inherited from her father and developed through her own artistic journey.

Her work resonates globally, speaking a visual language that bridges past and future. Represented in galleries across Australia and internationally, Sarrita has exhibited extensively and her pieces are held in prestigious collections. Whether depicting fire’s fierce power or the quiet wisdom of land and sky, her art remains grounded in cultural identity and storytelling.

🏅 Awards and Recognition
• Finalist, 2024 National Contemporary Art Prize
• Finalist, 2023 Muswellbrook Art Prize
• Finalist, 2022 National Capital Art Prize – First Nations
• Finalist, 42nd Alice Prize, 2022
• Featured in Connection at the National Museum of Australia, 2022
• Artwork featured on Samsung’s The Frame, 2017
• Artwork wrapped on BMW Flagship Building, Sydney, 2019
• Pop Art Series labels, Pommery Champagne, 2014

🎯 Commissions
• Channel 9’s The Block – All Stars, 2013
• AFL Indigenous Round guernseys for North Melbourne FC (2014–2017)

🖼️ Selected Collections
• Western Australian Museum
• Holmes à Court Collection, Perth
• Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, Switzerland

🎨 All the wonderful artists we work with are paid upfront for their incredible creations, acknowledging the immense talent and dedication they bring to each artwork.
🏷️ Every artwork comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, verifying its originality.
🌍 Free worldwide shipping.
✨ Each artwork includes a detailed description of the Dreaming or Story that inspired its creation, along with the artist's biography. 🖌️
🖼️ Every painting is an original, with no reproductions or prints, ensuring the irreplaceable nature and value of each creation. 💫
🔄 We offer a no-questions-asked return policy to ensure confidence in your purchase.

06/07/2025

We’re thrilled to share this absolutely breathtaking new piece by Janet Golder Kngwarreye — “Women’s Dreaming”, a vibrant and intricate celebration of culture, ceremony, and Country. 💚✨

This powerful work is painted in acrylic on canvas and measures a commanding 200 cm x 130 cm.

👉 Explore full details and secure this stunning original here:
https://artlandish.com/jgwd132

🖼️ Visual Description
This mesmerising painting is a kaleidoscope of colour and texture — a richly detailed aerial perspective alive with story. Swirling clusters of flowers, bush tucker, waterholes, and ceremonial motifs bloom across the canvas in an organic rhythm. The palette sings in shades of turquoise, emerald, soft lemon, and deep indigo, offset with radiant white dotting and gentle linear waves that mimic land contours, wind patterns, and plant growth. Each section pulses with movement and meaning, creating an immersive journey through women’s sacred knowledge and connection to the land.

📜 Artwork Story
In “Women’s Dreaming”, Janet paints an important Women’s Dreaming story connected to her Country — combining depictions of bush tucker 🌿, waterholes 🌊, and sacred sites used during extended ceremonial gatherings. The women honour ancestral spirits at these places, including through the Desert Yam or Bush Plum Dreaming — a story passed down through Janet’s family.

The yam, which grows underground with vine-like shoots above, is found across the Spinifex plains and blooms after summer rain. Its tubers are sweet and nourishing, a traditional bush food that can be eaten raw or cooked. This plant is also renowned for its medicinal properties and is used for treating wounds, rashes, bites, and as a natural insect repellent.

Through ceremony, women express deep respect for this plant, singing and dancing to ensure its regeneration for future generations.

👤 About the Artist
Janet Golder Kngwarreye is an Anmatyerre woman from Mulga Bore in the Utopia region. Her artistic lineage is remarkable — she is the daughter of Margaret Golder and Sammy Pitjara, and granddaughter to famed artists Polly Ngale and Angelina Pwerle. Her family also includes respected artists like Greeny Purvis and her sister Belinda Golder Kngwarreye. Janet is married to Ronnie Bird, son of the iconic Ada Bird Petyarre.

Janet began painting in 1987, learning from the women in her family. Her works reflect ceremonial stories such as Awelye (Women’s Body Paint), Bush Yam Leaf, Bush Medicine, and Mountain Devil Dreaming. In more recent works, Janet weaves together cultural practices with imagery of bush foods and the Utopia landscape. She is renowned for her striking use of colour, often combining bold pattern work in black and white with vibrant coloured elements.

🏅 Awards and Recognition
• 2022 – Connection | Songlines from Australia’s First Peoples, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
• 2020 – Artwork featured in Coles supermarket, Alice Springs
• 2014 – Painted a Smeg FAB28 fridge for the National Architecture Awards, Darwin

🖼️ Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
• Celebrating Country – Women Artists of Art Mob, Hobart

2022
• Connection, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
• Synergy 2022, Everywhen Art, Shoreham VIC

2021
• Synergy: Art from the Heartlands, Everywhen Art
• Top 20 2021, Art Mob, Hobart

2020
• Sounds of Summer, Japingka Gallery, Perth
• 60 by 60 – Small Paintings, Japingka Gallery
• Central Focus, Art Mob, Hobart
• Cup of Joy – Rising Stars, Japingka Gallery

2019
• Landscape Colours, Japingka Gallery

2018
• Painting on Country – Utopia Artists, Japingka Gallery

2004–2002
• Mbantua Gallery USA exhibitions – Tennessee, Oregon, and beyond

📦 Each Artwork Includes:
– Certificate of Authenticity
– Free worldwide shipping
– Full Dreaming story & artist biography
– Originals only — no reproductions

At Artlandish, every artist is paid upfront in full, ensuring their incredible talent and cultural contribution is honoured with the respect it deserves. We also offer a no-questions-asked return policy for complete peace of mind.

05/07/2025

Can you imagine standing in front of a 19.5 metre-long painting that wraps around the gallery like a living rainforest? 🌿
Melanie Hava’s Marngaree isn’t just art — it’s an experience of Country, spirit, and belonging.

💬 We’d love to hear your thoughts on Melanie’s work — whether you’ve followed her art over time or just discovered it through this exhibition.

Have you seen Marngaree yet, or are you planning to visit? Let us know what resonates with you most! 👇💚

✨ To truly feel Marngaree, you need to stand before it — come experience it for yourself.

🌿 Melanie Hava – Marngaree: Where Stories, Spirits and Country Meet 🎨
🗓️ Showing now until 7 September 2025 at Cairns Art Gallery – Free Entry. No bookings required!

🔗 Find all the details here: https://artlandish.com/melaniecairnsexpo
🖼️ View all of Melanie's current artworks here: https://artlandish.com/melaniehava

💫🖌️ What You Will Experience 🌿🖼️
Marngaree is where stories, spirits, and Country meet — and you're warmly invited to step into this living story and find your place within it.

Spanning the gallery walls in a sweeping arc of colour and symbolism, Marngaree is more than a painting — it’s an immersive journey through rainforest Country.

The panorama pulses with life: towering eucalypts and twisting fig roots give way to delicate ferns, vibrant red flowering trees, and luminous rainforest palms. In one breathtaking section, mist rolls across soft mountain ridges, inviting the viewer into a dreamlike world between dawn and spirit.

Elsewhere, a glowing green moon illuminates a serene waterfall flowing over dark stones — watched by cassowaries, possums, jabirus, and birds with ancient knowledge. The trees stretch toward the sky, each adorned with epiphytes and colour that speaks to the energy of the land.

A highlight of the triptych is a striking waterfall cascading into a turquoise pool — framed by rich earth-toned tree trunks and glowing under a purple twilight sky. This final scene, newly added, evokes both arrival and reflection — a sacred space where the spiritual and the physical converge.

Throughout, Melanie's signature style blends fine detail with bold natural forms. Though there are no human figures, the landscape is far from empty — it’s alive with ancestral presence, pulsing with cultural memory and spirit. Every bird, plant, and shimmer of light carries deep meaning. 🌿🌊🕊️

At Artlandish, we’ve been long-time admirers of Melanie’s work and are so thrilled to see her celebrated in another major solo exhibition. Congratulations, Melanie! 💚👏

📖 About the Exhibition
Building on her remarkable 2023 exhibition Bugan Mungan, Melanie has now expanded her vision into a full 19.5 metre panoramic triptych. The work honours Mungalli Falls — known to her family as Marngaree, a Dyribal word meaning “place to be together”. It’s a tribute to her ancestors and Country, filled with both reverence and welcome.

🎥 A special video accompanies the exhibition, sharing an intimate conversation between Melanie and her grandmother as they reflect on stories of place, memory, and spirit.