Wandjina rock painting - ( Kimberley Foundation ) … Aboriginal rock paintings in the Kimberley Bradshaw/ Gwion Gwion The Kimberley mountain ranges stretch across the northern tip of Western Australia. Joseph Bradshaw, an English pastoralist found the original rock art sites in 1891 on the Roe River in the north-west Kimberley. They became known as the Bradshaws, but currently the figures are more commonly known by their local Aboriginal name Gwion Gwion or Gwion, a name derived from one of the Aboriginal beliefs in the Kimberley that explains their origins. The Bradshaws are significant to world history because instead of