Artiste : Patju Presley

Titre de l'œuvre : Kultukira

Format : 200 x 137 cm

Provenance et certificat : centre d'art aborigène du Spinifex Art Project

Référence de cette peinture : 18-177

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Explications pour cette œuvre :

Patju has depicted the significant site of Kultukira, a place belonging to the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa or the Two Serpent Ancestral Beings, that forms part of the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line). This is an epic songline that follows the trials of a father and son Wanampi (Water Serpent) who are traversing the Spinifex Lands on Law ceremony.

These are creation beings who shaped the landscape as they moved through it. Powerful beings who left indelible reminders of their power and presence within the terrain and overlaid with a moral compass to follow.

Patju Presley paints with a passion for country as he evokes his 'early days' nomadic wanderings with his immediate family throughout the vast country he calls home. He is a master story teller of the Tjukurpa - creation events that shaped the environment we see today and is knowledgeable on many inma (traditional dancing and singing) for site specific ceremony.

Patju Presley (1945) was born in the 1940s at Itaratjara, an important site between to the community settlement of Watarru and Kalayapiti in the Great Victoria Desert.

His artworks are in the following prestigious collections : Art Gallery Of Western Australia, Perth, Wa. The National Gallery Of Australia, Canberra, Act. National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne. The Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney, Nsw. The Kaplan-Levi Collection, Usa. University Of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Qld. Art Gallery Of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia (Mens Collaborative). Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane...