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It has religious meaning to the people of Ireland. Seeing it helps us feel connected to our culture and feel proud of our heritage.

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Events like céilís, which are traditional Irish social dances, bring people together to celebrate and enjoy each other's company.

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Moai or moʻai are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500.

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I like this music because the story that they tell is powerful and makes me feel connected to it.

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I like painting because it makes me focus makes me feel like i have my space

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I like this song because its powerful and make me connect to it and I like dancing over and over for this song because I love it

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Kaylene Whiskey is a famous Australian artist that tells her stories in a modern way. this is why i like her

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Beverley Brumby, Bernard Kenny, Daisy Barney, David Frank, Dianne Robinson, Heather Brumby, Jeannie Reggie, Jeannie Walatinna, Judith Walkabout, Kunmanara (Kerry Anne) Robinson, Mary Brumby, Maxine Stuart, Mitika Burton, Natasha Pompey, Ngila Mungkuri, Priscilla Singer, Raylene Walatinna, Rosalind Tjanyari, Sally Ann Roberts, Sally Cullinan, Sandra Goodwin, Suzie Prince, Trisha Singer, Ugi Judy Walatinna.

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Beverley Brumby, Bernard Kenny, Daisy Barney, David Frank, Dianne Robinson, Heather Brumby, Jeannie Reggie, Jeannie Walatinna, Judith Walkabout, Kunmanara (Kerry Anne) Robinson, Mary Brumby, Maxine Stuart, Mitika Burton, Natasha Pompey, Ngila Mungkuri, Priscilla Singer, Raylene Walatinna, Rosalind Tjanyari, Sally Ann Roberts, Sally Cullinan, Sandra Goodwin, Suzie Prince, Trisha Singer, Ugi Judy Walatinna.

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THE ROCKART PAINTING TELL US FROM ALONG TIME AGO DREAM TIME STORY

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It is a skin decoration. It is not permanent. It is made with plant leaves. It is done in parts of Asia a lot.

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It is a way to have fun and be proud of your culture.

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Traditional instrument in Scotland. It is different and sounds good.

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My favourite artist is Alan Jackson because he makes people feel good about themselves and helps them when they are struggling

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My favourite artist/singer is Baker Boy because he sings in language, and he is a huge role model for the younger generation.

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In Japan, the art often includes cherry blossoms.

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I love music because it makes life better and brighter. Life without music would be

so dull.

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My grant grandmother is an artist and most of the paintings she does is telling a story about our community & country.

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Shirley Purdie has been painting for more than twenty years and is an artist of increasing significance and seniority. Her cultural knowledge and artistic skill complement each other to produce a practice that holds great strength. Shirley is also a prominent leader in Warmun community and an incisive cross-cultural communicator.

Inspired by more senior Warmun artists including her late mother, the great Madigan Thomas, as well as Rover Thomas and Queenie McKenzie, Shirley began to paint her country in the early 1990s. Shirley's uncle, artist Jack Britten, said to her, 'Why don't you try yourself for painting, you might be all right.'

Shirley says: 'it's good to learn from old people. They keep saying when you paint you can remember that country, just like to take a photo, but there's the Ngarranggarni (Dreaming) and everything. Good to put it in painting, your country, so kids can know and understand. When the old people die, young people can read the stories from the paintings. They can learn from the paintings and maybe

they want to start painting too.' Shirley's body of work explores sites and narratives associated with the country of her mother and father and is characterized by a bold use of richly textured ochre.

Significant places such as Baloowa, Jirragin and Gilban lie on country now taken in by Violet Valley and Mabel Downs cattle stations. Much of her work also explores spirituality and the relationship between Gija conceptions of Ngarranggarni (Dreaming) and Catholicism. In 2007 Shirley was awarded the Blake Prize for Religious Art for her major work Stations of the Cross. Colonial histories of the region also figure in Shirley's work in which she relates accounts of early contact, massacre, warfare and indentured labour since the incursion of pastoralists into Gija land in the late 1800s.

Shirley's works were displayed in a solo show at the Alcaston Galleries in Melbourne (2014). She also created a large body of 72 works on Gija medicinal plants and bush tucker Telling Tales: Excursions in Narrative Form, exhibitedand acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney in 2016. In 2018, Shirley Purdie was selected to contribute to the National Portrait Gallery's special 20 th anniversary exhibition, So Fine! exhibition, commemorating ten important female visual arts practitioners. She continues to be one of Warmun's leading artists and general leading elder at present.
For information about purchasing works, please contact the Art Centre on (08) 9168 7496, or visit our online store.

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Shirley Purdie has been painting for more than twenty years and is an artist of increasing significance and seniority. Her cultural knowledge and artistic skill complement each other to produce a practice that holds great strength. Shirley is also a prominent leader in Warmun community and an incisive cross-cultural communicator.

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He loves everybody and makes amazing music.

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I like the song because it good.

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Men At Work - Down Under (Official HD Video)

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i pick this song because i like listening to it.

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Break The Silence - IHHP, White Ribbon, Ngukurr

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Ngukurr School, White Ribbon Australia and Indigenous Hip Hop Projects partnered to make this powerful and important music video / resource touching on the powerful messages of the White Ribbon campaign - Break The Silence. There is absolutely no excuse for violence or abuse against women and children.

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I chose this song because it makes me think about Ngukurr

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Janet Jackson is good and she a best singer

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0:00 / 3:32•Watch full video

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Janet Jackson x Daddy Yankee - Made For Now [Official Video]

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This song from Ngukurr.

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Break The Silence - IHHP, White Ribbon, Ngukurr

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Ngukurr School, White Ribbon Australia and Indigenous Hip Hop Projects partnered to make this powerful and important music video / resource touching on the powerful messages of the White Ribbon campaign - Break The Silence. There is absolutely no excuse for violence or abuse against women and children.