Boab - Terry Murray Female Artist

Boab - Terry Murray Female ArtistPainted boab nut. Hand Painted by Terry Murray. 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.

We used to collect he coloured rocks from the hills

17 or 18 years old

Trees with waterhole in the middle and pretty flowers all around the waterhole this is my mother and father country

Myarn Julia Lawford

Murtikujarra

This is the story about a Jila

This is Bilga-bilga waterhole

TREES AND GRASS

Hand-carved by Simon George

That jila (waterhole) Kurtal for me and my sister

leaves and other materials around

And the dots represent flowers that grows along the edge of the water