Honey Ant Dreaming

Ruby Kngwarreye Morton

About Artwork

Code: EDA-RM2060/21

Artist: Ruby Kngwarreye Morton

Region: Rocket Range, Utopia, NT

Medium: Polymer acrylic on linen

Size: 63cm x 77cm

About Artist

This painting relates to the Honey Ant Ancestor. The Honey Ant is one of the main Dreamings of the women of the Eastern Desert, Central Australia and is of symbolic importance as it relates to several sacred sites. 

Ruby Kngwarreye Morton’s painting represents a mass of Honey Ant nests with chambers and galleries radiating out from the centre. It also represents the markings on the bodies of the Honey Ants (which are like those of the nest). Ruby overlays her coloured topographical background with fine white markings made with the gutta-nib instrument (used in batik-making). The Honey Ant is one of the delicacies of the desert dwellers of Central Australia. The women search the scrublands for their nests and then dig holes to extract them - their bodies swollen with honey. The collection of this and other forms of bush tucker has been handed down from generation to generation.

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Eastern Desert Art is a member of the Indigenous Art Code of Conduct and the Aboriginal Art Association of Australia and sells directly to collectors and galleries nationally and internationally.

To demonstrate provenance, artworks are sold with an Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct Certificate. These Certificates provide the purchaser with information on the artist, the story of their painting (when permitted by the artist under cultural law) and photographs of the artists with their paintings. The artworks are painted on prepared Belgian linen using polymer acrylics.

The local Alyawarre and Anmatyerre artists prepare and work on their paintings at the Eastern Desert art shed located on our property adjacent to Utopia.

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