Artistes : Beryl Jimmy

Titre de l'œuvre : Kapi Tjukula

Format : 200 × 120 cm

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

Référence de cette peinture aborigène : 12174

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Explications pour cette peinture d'art Aborigène :

Beryl Jimmy is a Pitjantjatjara woman living at the community settlement of Watarru, in the far northwest of South Australia, part of an area referred to as the Western desert. She was born in 1970. Beryl's work is inspired by a deep connection to country, and her spiritual links to the desert are expressed with integrity, beauty and creativity. Traditional knowledge of food collection and water sources were vital for survival in this dynamic desert landscape and is a prominent theme in her work. This cultural knowledge is handed down orally in the retelling of the Tjukurpa (traditional stories of the ancestor's journeys), which not only sustains Anangu (Aboriginal people) physically, but socially and spiritually.

Her Tjukurpa painting depicts a fragment of a larger story, a living history where an ancestor was involved in creating country. Individuals have authority and ownership of this land and the associated sites and stories. The maintenance of this country is paramount to artists of Watarru and they continue to care and manage the land with respect and responsibility.

Beryl Jimmy paints her vast country of Watarru, an important area in the Great Victoria Desert. It is marked by the large granite range that can be seen from a great distance and is an arid but beau􀆟ful environment full of meaning for the people who have populated this area for millennia. Beryl depicts rock holes and travelling lines that signify greater meaning to her.

She applies the paint generously with a quiet gusto and freedom, that leaves her composi􀆟ons looking and feeling wild and raw in their mark making. Beryl is a true ar􀆟st who is a joy to watch as she paints. She says ‘This is country close to Watarru. There are deep rockoles and traveling tracks. In the early days Anangu (Aboriginal ) people would travel from waterhole to waterhole collecting bush foods and setting up camp’.

Her artworks are in the following prestigious collections :
Deakin University, Melbourne,
VIC Flinders University, Adelaide SA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
The Beat Knoblacuch Collection, Switzerland
The Lepley Collection, Perth,
WA Parliament House, Adelaide,
SA Primary Industry and Resources, Adelaide,
SA Department of Environment and Heritage,
SA Australian National University, Canberra,
ACT The Parliament House Collection, Canberra,
ACT University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT