Boab - Local Artist Dora Cox

Boab - Local Artist Dora CoxCarved boab nut. Hand carved by local artist to Fitzroy Crossing. Boab nuts are synonymous with the Kimberley region. Many artists start their careers carving and painting boabs for sale as gifts, decorations and for sharing stories before moving onto painting on canvas and other art forms. Artefacts are made locally by artists and craftspeople, many of whom are Mangkaja artists. Keep an eye out for their paintings in our artwork section.

This painting is all about grass and waterhole Jilji sandhill all around

When rain season comes the waterholes used to be full by rain

60 x 60cm

This country has no trees

70 x 106cm

sometimes Im proud

The yellow flower if a wattle flower called kulpun

I cried and walked away to Tapu after I lost my father the karlpartu in the jila is cheeky

Linocut on 300gsm Paper

Old man laying down crossway

This jila (living water) called Japinka

the creativity and the luminous diversity of many of the Kimberley's finest artists