Artiste : Tjampawa Stevens

Titre de l'œuvre : Piltati Dreaming stories

Format : 151 × 101 cm

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

Référence de cette peinture : 20-013

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Explications pour cette peinture d'art Aborigène :

Tjampawa Stevens was born in the Western Desert at Areyonga in the Northern Territory around 1947. Areyonga is her father's country and her mother's place is Waltytjara. She came to Nyapari with her husband, Keith Stevens, and their five children to establish a community on their own lands.

This painting deals about the site of Piltati. Piltati􀆟 is a very important story about the two wanampi (ancestoral serpents) and their two wives. The two women travelled everywhere digging for food. Each day they would dig for kuka upupilypa (tadpoles) or collect wild berries like kampurarpa.

They always took food back to their two husbands. One day they got 􀆟red of working so hard and thought to themselves "we might not take all this food to the men, maybe we'll eat some first". The men got angry with the women for taking so long to bring the food back and decided to trick the women by turning into water snakes.

Her artworks are in the following prestigious collections :
Museum Art Gallery of NSW
Museums Victoria Collections
Harriet And Richard Collection, Sydney, New South Wales.
Lagerberg-Swift Collection, Perth, Western Australia.
The Arthur Roe Collection, Melbourne, Victoria
The Marshall Collection, Adelaide, South Australia.
W & V Mcgeoch, Melbourne, Victoria