Wakartu Ngarralja Tommy May, © Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing, WA

"This seven sisters sitting around and singing womens song. This all the jumu (soakwater) and some waterholes."

USD $1320

Here Wakartu Ngarralja Tommy depicts country in and around Fitzroy Crossing with its abundant soakages, marshes and paddys fed by the gigantic Fitzroy River.

USD $3000

Wakartu Ngarralja Tommy May is an important painter at the Mangkaja Arts Center at Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. He is a past Chairman at Mangkaja and is currently an executive for the Association of Northern Kimberley and Arnhem Aboriginal Artists (ANKAAA). Tommy dances and sings Kurtal, a ceremony relating to a main jila (living waterhole) in his country. Both he and his wife, Dorothy, are producing beautiful and interesting work at Mangkaja.