Product Description

Gary’s painting depicts a map of his ‘big country’ – Ilkawerne. It shows important sites, rock holes, soakages, tracks and roads. All these tracks and roads are leading to the most significant site; Aremela.  In the Dreamtime, Utnea – a gentle, quiet serpent made his way through this country creating the landscape, tracks and sites.

Ilkawerne lays approximately 200kms north east of Alice Springs in Central Australia.  It encompasses many stories which include; Ahakey – Bush Plum, Mulga Seed, Utnea – python, Prickle, Alpar – (herbaceous plant), small native grasses and Bush Coconut.

Central concentric circle is Aremela country and rock hole, all the protruding lines show travelling tracks leading to and from this important site.  Wavy lines also represent Utnea who, through his movement across this country formed the landscape we see today.