Artiste : Iyawi Wikilyiri

Titre de l'œuvre : Pukara

Format : 152 x 100 cm

Provenance et certificat : centre d'art aborigene de Tjungu Palya

Référence de cette peinture d'art indigène d’Australie : 13-370

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Explications pour cette œuvre :

Iyawi was born in the bush near Ernabella in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands c1945. She attended the mission school at Ernabella before finding employment in the craft room, where traditional spinning skills were combined with new techniques to develop a small scale carpet making industry. Iyawi's mother was a Yankunytjatjara women from Ernabella and her father was a Pitjantjatjara man from Pukara. Iyawi now lives in Nyapari with her husband Ginger Wikilyiri. 

Iyawi Wikilyiri paints Pukara, an important Tjukurpa for Wati Kutjara, the two serpent men. These wanampi's are involved in creating landmarks across vast tracts of the desert from Pukara in the tri state border region of Western Australia. South Australia and the Northern Territory to the Western Australian coast.Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa ( the creation story for the two serpent men). The two wanampi, father and his son travel from rockhole to rockhole in country around Wingellina. The father travelled away to another country and left his son behind at the rockhole Pukara. The people living there didn't like the son. They thought that the son was sneaking around their camps at night while they slept and stealing their food. They thought he looked strange and could not be trusted. When the son grew up he came back to Pukara and ate all the people there. Tjuratja tjuta (lots of sweet nectar) grows at Pukara. Kaliny-kalinypa (honey grevillea). The flowers can be sucked for the sweet honey like nectar or soaked in water to make a sweet drink.

The artworks of the artist could be find in the following prestigious collections :
Araluen Art Collection, Department Of Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts
Artbank, Australian Government National
Harriet And Richard England Collection
Voituron Collection - Belgique
National Gallery Of Australia, Canberra, Australia
University Of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Qld
Bertrand Estrangin collection - France - Belgique

© Photo : Aboriginal Signature Estrangin gallery with the courtesy of the artists and Tjungu Palya