Trephina Sultan Thanguwa
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 Grandmothers Way 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
Following is a selection of my works, based on my ‘Bush Honey’, one of the popular treats enjoyed by children and adults and the ‘Desert Oak Bush Honey’. Where canvas size is mentioned, these are approximation (all works displayed here have been sold).
Desert Oak Bush Honey
Bush Honey is a delicacy among the Aboriginal People. There are many different types of bush honey. This painting represent the honey that drips off the Desert Oak found in Central Australia.
Painting size: 60 cm x 70 cm
Desert Oak Bush Honey
Bush Honey is a delicacy among the Aboriginal People. There are many different types of bush honey. This painting represent the honey that drips off the Desert Oak found in Central Australia.
Painting size: 60 cm x 130 cm
Bush Honey / Desert Oak
Bush Honey is a delicacy among the Aboriginal People. There are many different types of bush honey. This painting represent the honey that drips off the Desert Oak tree.
Additional Reference
The Desert Oaks of Central Australia is a significant tree in Aboriginal culture and plays a significant role in Aboriginal Dreaming. The Desert Oaks offers shade in Mina Mina country, an important women’s dreaming site where they gather for ceremonies, and is found painted into aboriginal art of the central and western deserts.
It is a major subject and can be found depicted in the works of artists from art centres such as Warlukurlangu in Yuendumu as the central story, “Desert Oak Dreaming”. It also features prominently in the works of internationally renowned artist Dorothy Napangardi who references the desert oak in many of her major works that of her “Country” of Mina Mina.
Check out our flora information for plants known to provide bush honey, including the Honey Grevillea, Desert Grevillea and the Desert Oak.
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 Grandmothers Way 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 ArtistsAdrian Jangala Robertson Archie Daniel Goodwin Dorothy Napangardi Elsie Numina Eric Braedon Mbitjana Evelyn Nungarrayi Jugadai Janet Tjitayi Keith Morgan Pitjara Kukula McDonald Nellie Marks Nakamarra Raymond Walters Japanangka Selma Coulthard Trephina Sultan Thanguwa
