Buy Aboriginal art at Bits of Australia.

This original Indigenous canvas is 61cm x 30cm and by First Nations artist Michael Japaljarri Wayne. It is a gorgeous artwork from Central Australia.

Delivered rolled up you can choose how and where you want to display it - it is has been painted from all directions.

The beautiful artwork comes with a Certificate of Authenticity stamped and signed from Warlukurlangu Artist Centre, an Aboriginal owned art centre in the Northern Territory. We work directly with the art centre so you can feel confident in the artwork provenance and that you have ethically purchased an incredible artwork.

Michael Japaljarri Wayne was born in 1985 in the Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community located 290 km north-west from Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. He is the son of Johnny Jungarrayi and Lee Nangala Gallagher-Wayne and the grandson of Mary Napangardi Gallagher, all successful artists working with Warlukurlangu Artists. He watched his parents and grandparents paint their Jukurrpa and listened to their stories. He is married to Ritasha Nampijinpa Watson and has one son, Johnny.

He has lived in the Aboriginal Community of Yuendumu his whole life. He attended the local high school where he finished Year 8 in 2001. When he finished school he worked for the Community Development Employment Project (CDPE) and also worked on the Mt Theo Program, a successful program started by Yuendumu Community to address chronic petrol sniffing in Yuendumu.

Michael has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu, since 2003. He paints his father’s Jukurrpa stories, Dreamings which related directly to his land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. These stories were passed down to him by his father and his father’s father before him for millennia.

When he is not painting or working he enjoys playing football with the local Yuendumu team and hunting for goanna and kangaroo.

The original Aboriginal artwork makes a unique Australian gift for family and friends overseas for special birthdays or as a wedding present. Or, add some beautiful Australian wall art to your home - it is perfect for entrance halls, the office, dining room and lounge room.