Artiste : Patju Presley

Titre de l'œuvre : Tolu

Format : 137 x 90 cm

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

Référence de cette peinture : 21-342

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Patju Presley paints with such spiritual confidence, as someone who knows their place in the Creation, often singing the associated songs of particular sites whilst rhythmically placing his myriad of dots to form his striking compositions. Here he depicts the significant site of Ilu that holds the Minyma Mankurpa Tjukurpa (Three Women Creation Line) and follows the journey of three women minyma Ikarka (spotted bower bird woman), minyma mutjurara (goanna woman) and minyma ngiyari (thorny devil women) as they traverse the vast interior near the significant site of Waltjitjara. This is a sensitive story that Patju says he cannot elaborate on.

These characters that Patju depicts 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 transcendent quality we experience from it.

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...