Boab - Albert Kennedy Gordon Tighe

Boab - Albert Kennedy Gordon TighePainted boab nut. Hand Painted by Albert Kennedy. Boab nuts are synonymous with the Kimberley region. Many artists start their careers carving and painting boabs for sale as gifts, decorations and for sharing stories before moving onto painting on canvas and other art forms. Artefacts are made locally by artists and craftspeople, many of whom are Mangkaja artists. Keep an eye out for their paintings in our artwork section.

My people use to live here many years ago this is our waterhole

There are two brothers

Terry Murray

This two waterhole's called Warnti and japirnka that my two country that way out in the desert

They was living there at the station and they would get sick of it and would run away

bush tomatoe

90 x 60cm

Thats when I came full gallop just to try to wheel them to the east

I used to be in that life myself

THIS PAINTING IS ALL ABOUT THE RIVER THE THINGS THAT WE EAT SAWFISH TURLE BARRAMUNDI

they are still green and we eat them

started getting dizzy