LATEST WORK
My Country after Apangw (Big Rain)
$1,086.66
Michelle Pula Holmes – My Country
$2,989.99
Bush Flowers
$2,541.66
Summer Bush Tucker
$963.33
Diane Kemarre Ross – My Country
$3,509.99
Bush Medicine Plants
$1,786.66
OUR ART CENTRE
The Artists of Ampilatwatja community was established in 1999, 325km north east of Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in the Northern Territory. Ampilatwatja lies on Aherrenge country, the land of the Alyawarre people.
The work produced by our artists is unique and recognisably distinct from other Aboriginal artistic communities. The paintings pay homage to the significance and use of traditional bush medicine, allowing an insight into our community. We depict the traditional knowledge of dreaming and country through the translation of waterholes and soaks, bush medicines, mountains and sand hills.
MEET SEVANIA KEMARRE BONNEY
Sevania was born in Soapy Bore, Utopia and started to paint when she was teenager. She learnt the way to paint landscape and bush medicine from her mother Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney and grandmother Eileen Kemarre Bonney, a former health worker and artist.
Sevania finds painting soothing and enjoys sharing this activity with her twin daughters Dakota and Latoya, so they can learn as she did with her mother and grandmother.
Recently Sevania was taught how to produce prints. My daughters and my mum all really enjoyed drawing and carving the lino. We all worked together as a family. We were taught how to start a print and keep learning until a picture is made. We all know you have to be safe and follow the rules around the printing press.
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Thank you @wentworth_brisbane for hearing our story at the opening of Ilkwa Apmer, Ilkwa Alker (Big Land, Big Sky).
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#brisbane #gallery #exhibition #aboriginalart #artistsofampilatwatja #painting #bushmedicine #desertlandscapes
Thank you @wentworth_brisbane for hearing our story at the opening of Ilkwa Apmer, Ilkwa Alker (Big Land, Big Sky).
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#brisbane #gallery #exhibition #aboriginalart #artistsofampilatwatja #painting #bushmedicine #desertlandscapes
Elizabeth & Kathleen visiting @wentworth_brisbane - all the paintings look amazing!
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#brisbane #wentworthgallery #art #painting #australianartists #exhibition #aboriginalart
Elizabeth & Kathleen visiting @wentworth_brisbane - all the paintings look amazing!
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#brisbane #wentworthgallery #art #painting #australianartists #exhibition #aboriginalart
If you’ve been thinking about adding meaningful Aboriginal art to your workspace, now’s the time.
For eligible small businesses, art purchases up to $20,000 per item may be claimed as a full tax deduction this financial year.
Every piece supports our artists and keeps culture strong.
Explore our available works online and speak with your accountant to see if your business qualifies.
If you’ve been thinking about adding meaningful Aboriginal art to your workspace, now’s the time.
For eligible small businesses, art purchases up to $20,000 per item may be claimed as a full tax deduction this financial year.
Every piece supports our artists and keeps culture strong.
Explore our available works online and speak with your accountant to see if your business qualifies.
New work from Kathleen Nanima Rambler — Mulangke Aherne (Beautiful Land) 🌸
“My country. When I go hunting out bush, as we drive along the road towards the hill you can see the beautiful land and the flowers blooming on the side of the road, and near the hills, even the beautiful gum trees.”
Kathleen’s work is a reflection of the beauty she sees and remembers, land full of life, colour, and memory.
View more of Kathleen’s work online now via the link in bio.
New work from Kathleen Nanima Rambler — Mulangke Aherne (Beautiful Land) 🌸
“My country. When I go hunting out bush, as we drive along the road towards the hill you can see the beautiful land and the flowers blooming on the side of the road, and near the hills, even the beautiful gum trees.”
Kathleen’s work is a reflection of the beauty she sees and remembers, land full of life, colour, and memory.
View more of Kathleen’s work online now via the link in bio.
Anaty Anaty Apmer (Heartland)
Rather than depicting the iconography of dreaming stories - as in the paintings of western and much other central desert art - Ampilatwatja painters reinforce their strong connection to Country in landscape form and with a strong focus on the plants used for bush medicine. After the rains, the country bursts into life in numerous shades of green, punctuated by magenta, yellow, purple, white, orange and red wildflowers.
Image: Nancy Pitjara Frank
@everywhenartspace
OPENING EVENT SATURDAY JUNE 7 2.30 pm
Curators Floor Talk & Opening Drinks: Bush medicine & plants - the unique art of Artists of Ampilatwatja
RSVP at info@everywhenart.com.au
#bushmedicine #authenticindigenousart #australianartist #centraldesertart
Anaty Anaty Apmer (Heartland)
Rather than depicting the iconography of dreaming stories - as in the paintings of western and much other central desert art - Ampilatwatja painters reinforce their strong connection to Country in landscape form and with a strong focus on the plants used for bush medicine. After the rains, the country bursts into life in numerous shades of green, punctuated by magenta, yellow, purple, white, orange and red wildflowers.
Image: Nancy Pitjara Frank
@everywhenartspace
OPENING EVENT SATURDAY JUNE 7 2.30 pm
Curators Floor Talk & Opening Drinks: Bush medicine & plants - the unique art of Artists of Ampilatwatja
RSVP at info@everywhenart.com.au
#bushmedicine #authenticindigenousart #australianartist #centraldesertart
Just a few donkey’s wanting to get in on the painting action.
Life in Ampilatwatja is full of moments like this… where country, community, and a little bit of humour meet.
Just a few donkey’s wanting to get in on the painting action.
Life in Ampilatwatja is full of moments like this… where country, community, and a little bit of humour meet.
This Saturday in Darwin join us for the opening of Alpeyt (Blossom) — our latest exhibition with @outstation_gallery , celebrating the beauty, strength and knowledge of country.
Through these new works, our artists honour the traditions of bush medicine, singing the plants into existence and painting the stories passed down by mothers, daughters and grandmothers.
🌿Outstation Gallery – Waterfront
🌿Saturday, May 31st at 11am
If you’re in Darwin, we’d love to see you there. If not, you can view the full collection online after the 31st — each painting a living connection to country.
This Saturday in Darwin join us for the opening of Alpeyt (Blossom) — our latest exhibition with @outstation_gallery , celebrating the beauty, strength and knowledge of country.
Through these new works, our artists honour the traditions of bush medicine, singing the plants into existence and painting the stories passed down by mothers, daughters and grandmothers.
🌿Outstation Gallery – Waterfront
🌿Saturday, May 31st at 11am
If you’re in Darwin, we’d love to see you there. If not, you can view the full collection online after the 31st — each painting a living connection to country.
Born near Hatches Creek, Edie Kemarre Holmes now lives in Ampilatwatja with her children and grandchildren, painting the places that hold deep meaning for her — Antarrengeny, her father’s country, and Akwerantye, her mother’s country.
“My country is Apmer Mwerrangker — beautiful country,” she shares. Whether working on canvas or in print, Edie’s art reflects a profound connection to land, memory, and tradition.
As one of the original artists of the Utopian Batik movement in the 1980s, Edie has long used art to express culture and identity. She’s passed that same passion on to her daughters, who often sit beside her painting, sharing stories and keeping knowledge alive.
Print featured: Arratherrk (bush flower)
Purchase this beautiful print online, via the link in bio.
Born near Hatches Creek, Edie Kemarre Holmes now lives in Ampilatwatja with her children and grandchildren, painting the places that hold deep meaning for her — Antarrengeny, her father’s country, and Akwerantye, her mother’s country.
“My country is Apmer Mwerrangker — beautiful country,” she shares. Whether working on canvas or in print, Edie’s art reflects a profound connection to land, memory, and tradition.
As one of the original artists of the Utopian Batik movement in the 1980s, Edie has long used art to express culture and identity. She’s passed that same passion on to her daughters, who often sit beside her painting, sharing stories and keeping knowledge alive.
Print featured: Arratherrk (bush flower)
Purchase this beautiful print online, via the link in bio.
Forging forward, we look back and acknowledge Daisy Kemarre Moss, Lilly Kemarre Morton, Colleen Ngwarraye Morton, Edie Kemarre Holmes, Michelle Pula Holmes, Lulu Pitjara Teece, founding members of the Artists of Ampilatwatja.
These important artists and elders, worked alongside the women living on Utopia, who in 1987 participated in A Picture Story - eighty-eight batik works on silk and A Summer Project representing the women’s first works on canvas.
Both projects initiated by CAAMA and acquired by The Robert Holmes a Court Collection in mid 1988.
The Artists of Ampilatwatja have painted together for 25 years.
‘Our painting has no borders, just one country. Ampilatwatja is our place, Ampilatwatja is our country’ - Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney
Photo Credit - Colleen Lewis Kngwarreye - Green Budgerigar Dreaming
Forging forward, we look back and acknowledge Daisy Kemarre Moss, Lilly Kemarre Morton, Colleen Ngwarraye Morton, Edie Kemarre Holmes, Michelle Pula Holmes, Lulu Pitjara Teece, founding members of the Artists of Ampilatwatja.
These important artists and elders, worked alongside the women living on Utopia, who in 1987 participated in A Picture Story - eighty-eight batik works on silk and A Summer Project representing the women’s first works on canvas.
Both projects initiated by CAAMA and acquired by The Robert Holmes a Court Collection in mid 1988.
The Artists of Ampilatwatja have painted together for 25 years.
‘Our painting has no borders, just one country. Ampilatwatja is our place, Ampilatwatja is our country’ - Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney
Photo Credit - Colleen Lewis Kngwarreye - Green Budgerigar Dreaming
Here at @artists_of_ampilatwatja we predominantly paint Arreth (strong bush medicine), a true reflection of our deep connection to country. The land is a vital source of life, sustaining the Alyawarr people for generations. Every plant, every animal, plays an essential role within the delicate ecological system.
Our art is more than just a depiction of the land — it’s a way to honour the knowledge passed down through generations, celebrating the healing power of bush medicine and the sacred relationship we have with country.
#bushmedicine #indigenousart #australianbush
Here at @artists_of_ampilatwatja we predominantly paint Arreth (strong bush medicine), a true reflection of our deep connection to country. The land is a vital source of life, sustaining the Alyawarr people for generations. Every plant, every animal, plays an essential role within the delicate ecological system.
Our art is more than just a depiction of the land — it’s a way to honour the knowledge passed down through generations, celebrating the healing power of bush medicine and the sacred relationship we have with country.
#bushmedicine #indigenousart #australianbush
Exhibition - darwin -
@outstation_gallery - Waterfront
Opening Saturday May 31st at 11am
Alpeyt (Blossom)
Life experience and culture come alive within the artwork produced for the Artists of Ampilatwatja latest exhibition Alpert (Blossom).
Each painting pays homage to the significance and use of traditional bush medicine while depicting traditional knowledge of dreaming and country through the translation of waterholes and soaks, bush medicines, snaking dry creek beds, mountains and sand hills.
The beauty of these landscapes come from a close association with the land, passed down through generations, grandmothers and mothers teach where and when to find plants, the recipes and uses of bush medicines.
The Artists of Ampilatwatja sing to country, singing the bush medicine into existence. Mothers, daughters and sisters, come together at our art centre and paint our own story.
Image - Colleen Ngwarraye Morton
Exhibition - darwin -
@outstation_gallery - Waterfront
Opening Saturday May 31st at 11am
Alpeyt (Blossom)
Life experience and culture come alive within the artwork produced for the Artists of Ampilatwatja latest exhibition Alpert (Blossom).
Each painting pays homage to the significance and use of traditional bush medicine while depicting traditional knowledge of dreaming and country through the translation of waterholes and soaks, bush medicines, snaking dry creek beds, mountains and sand hills.
The beauty of these landscapes come from a close association with the land, passed down through generations, grandmothers and mothers teach where and when to find plants, the recipes and uses of bush medicines.
The Artists of Ampilatwatja sing to country, singing the bush medicine into existence. Mothers, daughters and sisters, come together at our art centre and paint our own story.
Image - Colleen Ngwarraye Morton
Beanie Week!
Congratulations to all 2025 Telstra NATSIAA finalist @mag_nt
We are so proud to once again be included in the talented line up of artists.
“While we painted we had big talks about community, old time stories and bush tucker stories. There were laughs and big stories about old family stories, ceremony business and dancing.
We finished that painting!” Kathleen Nanima Rambler
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#museumartgallerynothernterritory #collab #painting #remoteartcentre #aboriginalart #australianart #womenwhopaint #desertqueens
Congratulations to all 2025 Telstra NATSIAA finalist @mag_nt
We are so proud to once again be included in the talented line up of artists.
“While we painted we had big talks about community, old time stories and bush tucker stories. There were laughs and big stories about old family stories, ceremony business and dancing.
We finished that painting!” Kathleen Nanima Rambler
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#museumartgallerynothernterritory #collab #painting #remoteartcentre #aboriginalart #australianart #womenwhopaint #desertqueens
New work from Diane Kemarre Ross ✨
Born in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and raised in the quiet outstation of Irrultja, Diane’s paintings are inspired by her memories of collecting bush medicine and hunting with family. Now living in Ampilatwatja with her own children, she continues to pass on those traditions.
Taught by her Aunty Rosie and sister Margaret—both renowned Aboriginal artists—Diane paints with deep knowledge and love for country. Her works celebrate the bush medicine plants she finds when travelling out bush, helping to keep culture and knowledge strong.
#AboriginalArt #BushMedicine #IndigenousArt
#ArtOfCountry
New work from Diane Kemarre Ross ✨
Born in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and raised in the quiet outstation of Irrultja, Diane’s paintings are inspired by her memories of collecting bush medicine and hunting with family. Now living in Ampilatwatja with her own children, she continues to pass on those traditions.
Taught by her Aunty Rosie and sister Margaret—both renowned Aboriginal artists—Diane paints with deep knowledge and love for country. Her works celebrate the bush medicine plants she finds when travelling out bush, helping to keep culture and knowledge strong.
#AboriginalArt #BushMedicine #IndigenousArt
#ArtOfCountry
“My mother’s country is flowers, trees and mountains. I love to paint them. We see springs, the water from the springs is like rainwater, fresh and clean. We hunt goanna and turkeys, we roast them in the fire and the flesh is strong and sweet.
When we hunt we sleep at night next to the fire, the skies are big and the stars are beautiful, it makes me feel good”.
Valerie Kemarre Lewis
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#australianlandscapepainting #australianartists #aboriginalart #womenwhopaint #womenwhohunt
“My mother’s country is flowers, trees and mountains. I love to paint them. We see springs, the water from the springs is like rainwater, fresh and clean. We hunt goanna and turkeys, we roast them in the fire and the flesh is strong and sweet.
When we hunt we sleep at night next to the fire, the skies are big and the stars are beautiful, it makes me feel good”.
Valerie Kemarre Lewis
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#australianlandscapepainting #australianartists #aboriginalart #womenwhopaint #womenwhohunt
“This is my country, my view of country.” – Sevania Kemarre Bonney
Sevania Kemarre Bonney was born in Soapy Bore, Utopia, and began painting as a teenager, learning from her mother Elizabeth and grandmother Eileen — both strong women, storytellers, and artists. Today, Sevania passes that knowledge on to her twin daughters, continuing the tradition of learning through family and Country.
Her work is deeply inspired by her great grandmother’s Country around Canteen Creek — a place filled with bush bananas, wild oranges, and beautiful flowers that bloom after the rain.
“I like to go hunting, watching landscape, pretty flowers after the rain… Being on my great grandmother’s Country makes me happy and content.”
Recently, Sevania and her family have embraced printmaking, carving and printing together as a family — another way to tell their stories and honour Country.
Discover Sevania’s work and support authentic Indigenous art — link in bio.
“This is my country, my view of country.” – Sevania Kemarre Bonney
Sevania Kemarre Bonney was born in Soapy Bore, Utopia, and began painting as a teenager, learning from her mother Elizabeth and grandmother Eileen — both strong women, storytellers, and artists. Today, Sevania passes that knowledge on to her twin daughters, continuing the tradition of learning through family and Country.
Her work is deeply inspired by her great grandmother’s Country around Canteen Creek — a place filled with bush bananas, wild oranges, and beautiful flowers that bloom after the rain.
“I like to go hunting, watching landscape, pretty flowers after the rain… Being on my great grandmother’s Country makes me happy and content.”
Recently, Sevania and her family have embraced printmaking, carving and printing together as a family — another way to tell their stories and honour Country.
Discover Sevania’s work and support authentic Indigenous art — link in bio.