Artiste : Iyawi Wikilyiri

Titre de l'œuvre : Punu Tjuta

Format : 92 x 61 cm

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

Référence de cette peinture d'art indigène d’Australie : 15-120

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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.

In this artwork, she is dealing about Punu tjuta (many trees) at a place called Ngarutjara, near Ernabella. The trees grow near water. Tjuna-tjuna (many reeds) It's the same country as the Wanampi (Water snake). Can be dangerous country. Apu kulupa tjuta (many small boulders and rocks). Wiltja (shade structure) built by the people making camp. The women use the tree roots to make the wana (digging stick) that they use for digging for food.

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