Artiste : Maringka Baker

Titre de l'œuvre : Minyma Kutjara Dreaming stories

Format : 200 x 120 cm

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

Référence de cette peinture aborigène : 13377

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Explications pour cette peinture d'art Aborigène :

Maringka is a senior Pitjantjatjara woman living in the remote community settlement of Kanpi, 100kms east of the tri-state borders of WA, SA, and the NT. Maringka was born c1952. at Kaliumpil rock hole, a traditional camp site in Western Australia. Maringka's parents died when she was young and she was raised by Anmanari Brown and other members of her extended family. She went to the mission schools of Warburton in WA and Ernabella in SA. Maringka married a man from Papulankatja and they had two children. Their younger daughter passed away in childhood. Elaine Woods the elder daughter married a Docker River man and they had four daughters, Julie Woods, Janice Woods, Venita Woods and Casseyanne Woods.

Maringka has three great grandchildren. Maringka remarried Douglas Baker (Jimmy Baker's cousin) later in life and settled in Kanpi community, Douglas's country. Maringka has a deep connection to country and a spiritual connection with the land. These powerful links to the desert are expressed with beauty and integrity in her paintings and her work is highly sought after. Maringka was selected as one of thirty one artists from every state and territory in Australia to participate in the 'National Indigenous Art Triennial 07 - Culture Warriors'. Maringka continues to paint powerful and alluring prize-winning paintings through which she has gained notoriety nationally and internationally.

In this artwork she is dealing about Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa (the crea􀆟on story of the two sisters). The big sister was travelling with her younger sister back to their homeland. The little sister was reluctant to head further and further north as she had been living with a different family near the ocean to the south. She had been lost for a long 􀆟me and was unfamiliar with the landscape the big sister was showing her.

Eventually the older sister gave her a piggyback and tried to comfort her. She continued to teach her all about the country they travelled through. Some􀆟mes when they stopped they performed Inma (sacred singing and dancing). They camped at Punuwara and Irrunytju rockhole before heading further north to Docker River.

In my paintings you can see all the different parts of these landscapes as they were shown to the younger sister and as they change into each other.

Her artworks are in the following prestigious collections :
Araluen Collection, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Artbank, Australian Government National Contemporary Art Rental
Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria.
Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia.
Harriett And Richard England Collection,
Hassall Collection, Sydney, New South Wales.
Lagerberg-Swift Collection, Perth, Western Australia.
Levi And Kaplan Collection, Seattle, Usa
Marshall Collection, Adelaide, South Australia.
National Gallery Of Australia, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
South Australian Art Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia.
The Beat Knoblacuch Collection, Switzerland.
The Corrigan Collection, Sydney, New South Wales.
The Lepley Collection, Perth, Western Australia.
The Parliament House Collection, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
University Of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
W & V Mcgeoch, Melbourne, Victoria
Art Gallery Of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
The Authur Roe Collection, Melbourne, Vic
The Peter & Agnes Cooke Collection, Brisbane, Qld
Alison And Peter W. Klein Collection, Ludwigsburg, Badenwurttemberg, Germany