Trephina Sultan ThanguwaTrephina Sultan Gallery Bush Food (2006) Bush Honey (Honey Grevillea) Bush Tobacco Country Desert Oak Bush Honey Dialysis Machine Art Symbolism Families Hunting and Gathering Bush Tucker Fire, Rain, Life Following the creeks and waterholes Goanna calling for rain Grass Seeds Healing Kamiku Ara Kapi (Rain) Kapi-Nguru Kulu Messy Art Minga Ntatha Flowers (My Desert Home in Spring) Rainbow Serpent Regeneration (Renewed Life) Seven Sisters Spiritual Journey Tjanpi Kampanyi Walpangku Wangka Katipai (Voices in the Wind) Water Symbol on Cave Wall Triptych: Fire, Rain, Life
Welcome to my gallery. My Aboriginal name is Thanguwa (pronounced Thu-ng-oo-wu), and my people are the Luritja (Southern Dialect) community. I also go by the English name of Trephina Sultan.
I have been creating my artwork and selling them here in Alice Springs for many years. Whilst I am now based in Darwin, I do on occasion come back to Alice Springs.
Through my work, I have met many people from all over the world. It is through my work that I have made many friends. After talking with my friends, they have given me suggestions and ideas by which I can show and offer my work to a greater audience. So here it is, I have decided to go online. I hope you enjoy what you see.
Thanguwa, Trephina Sultan
Trephina speaks English, having learnt English in school at Alice Springs, although she also speaks Luritja, the language of her family and elders. Acknowledged as a Luritja language specialist, Trephina also worked as an interpreter, and together with colleagues at the Alice Springs Institute for Aboriginal Development, she was an invaluable contributor to an Aboriginal-English dictionary.
Trephina’s main passion is painting, having started painting at a young age, after watching her uncles, aunties, cousins and friends paint. Her artwork draws inspiration from the stories that were told to her by family and passed down by the Elders. Always willing to experiment, Trephina went beyond the stories that were originally taught her, establishing her own style and interpretation of her world.
My paintings are based on dreamtime stories my mother told me. I have also done a number of special commissioned works.
As I am not too familiar with the internet I am grateful to my friends to maintain this gallery. To show you my portfolio of works, my friends are displaying some of my previously sold works.
Check out the Gallery Index of examples of Trephina’s artwork, or some of the listed titles below.
- Bush Honey
- Bush Tobacco
- Country
- Desert Oak Bush Honey
- Dialysis Machine Art Symbolism (MALPA Project)
- Families Hunting and Gathering Bush Tucker
- Grass Seeds
- Healing
- How the Perentie and Goanna got their Colours
- Kamiku Ara
- Kapi-Nguru (From Water)
- Kulu
- Minga
- Regeneration (Renewed Life)
- Rainbow Serpent
- Tjanpi Kampanyi (Burning Grass)
- Walpangku Wangka Katipai (Voices in the Wind)
- Water Symbol on Cave Wall
Trephina Sultan ThanguwaTrephina Sultan Gallery Bush Food (2006) Bush Honey (Honey Grevillea) Bush Tobacco Country Desert Oak Bush Honey Dialysis Machine Art Symbolism Families Hunting and Gathering Bush Tucker Fire, Rain, Life Following the creeks and waterholes Goanna calling for rain Grass Seeds Healing Kamiku Ara Kapi (Rain) Kapi-Nguru Kulu Messy Art Minga Ntatha Flowers (My Desert Home in Spring) Rainbow Serpent Regeneration (Renewed Life) Seven Sisters Spiritual Journey Tjanpi Kampanyi Walpangku Wangka Katipai (Voices in the Wind) Water Symbol on Cave Wall Triptych: Fire, Rain, Life
Aboriginal ArtistsArchie Daniel Goodwin Dorothy Napangardi Elsie Numina Eric Braedon Mbitjana Evelyn Nungarrayi Jugadai Janet Tjitayi Keith Morgan Pitjara Kukula McDonald Linda Syddick Nellie Marks Nakamarra Raymond Walters Japanangka Selma Coulthard Trephina Sultan Thanguwa
