of Tjuntjuntjara
Artists
Artists of Tjuntjuntjara
PART TWO
16 August - 16 September 2023
Aboriginal & Pacific Art in association with Spinifex Arts
Project, Tjuntjuntjara, Western Australia
Front cover image: Simon Hogan, Lingka #22-17, Acrylic on linen, 200 x 137 cm
Tjaruwa Woods Kamanti
#17-341 Acrylic on linen
137 x 110 cm
Spinifex
Lands. Image courtesy Spinifex Arts Project 2023
Lawrence Pennington Nyuman #21-77 Acrylic on linen 230 x 200 cm
Nyuman
Lawrence Pennington is at times the Walawuru (wedge tailed eagle) surveying the canvas before him. He applies the paint as he peers down on the sparse landscape he creates, interspersed with powerful iconography that is mentioned in hushed tones. For this is the significant site of Nyuman that holds the Walawuru Tjukurpa (Wedge Tailed Eagle Creation Line), a powerful narrative that follows the eagle as it traverses the Spinifex lands. These are creation beings and as such held the power to transform the landscape as they moved through it, leaving monolithic physical reminders together with religious narrative for people to follow.
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Simon Hogan
Lingka
#21-503
Acrylic on linen
137 x 140 cm
Lawrence Pennington
Nyuman #21-101
Acrylic on linen 110 x 85 cm
Ned Grant
Mitunya #16-27
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 137 cm
Simon Hogan
Lingka #22-17
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 137 cm
Lawrence Pennington
Pukara #23-153
Acrylic on linen 137 x 110 cm
Lawrence Pennington
Mituna
#23-268
Acrylic on linen
137 x 110 cm
Patju Presley
Malaputja
#23-160
Acrylic on linen
137 x 110 cm
Malaputja
Patju Presley paints with such spiritual confidence, as someone who knows their place in the Creation, often singing the associated songs of the particular sites whilst rhythmically placing his myriad of dots to form his striking compositions. Here he depicts the significant site of Malaputja, country associated with Wati Mala (Rufous Hair Wallaby Creation Line). This is a sensitive narrative that cannot be elaborated on except to say that it is the track left by Wati Mala. Patju says this is good country here.
There is a small rockhole that Patju says “calls out tju tju tju tjhu tju, that kapi is talking like that!”
These characters that Patju predicts within a living, breathing landscape are the creation beings who shaped the immediate environment as they moved through it, leaving a moral narrative etched into the physical domain as testament to their power and presence. It is this physical, spiritual and religious existence that cannot be separated for Patju and is what gives his work the transcendant quality we experience from it.
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Ngalpingka Simms
Wayiyul
#23-134
Acrylic on linen
230 x 200 cm
Wayiyul
#23-26
Acrylic on linen
137 x 110 cm
Ngalpingka Simms
Pukura
Lawrence Pennington
#23-80
Acrylic on linen
200 x 137 cm
Michelle Anderson
Kanpala
#22-81
Acrylic on linen
110 x 85 cm
Fred Grant
Kupanya #21-248
Acrylic on linen
137 x 140 cm
Lawrence Pennington
Wati Kutjara
#23-168
Acrylic on linen
137 x 90 cm
Artists of Tjuntjuntjara
PART TWO
Presented by Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney, in association with Spinifex Arts Project, Tjuntjuntjara, Western Australia
16 August - 16 September, 2023
Aboriginal & Pacific Art, 1/24 Wellington Street, Waterloo, NSW, 2017
Australia
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All images and text copyright the Artists and the community, Spinifex Arts Project, Tjuntjuntjara, Western Australia