Artiste : Alison Puruntatameri

Titre de l'œuvre : Winga (Tidal Movement / Waves)

Pigments naturels sur toile de lin Belge

Format : 180 x 120 cm

Provenance et certificat : centre d'art aborigène de Munupi (Tiwi Island)

Référence de la peinture : 20-53

© Photo : Aboriginal signature with the courtesy of the artist & Munupi Art centre (Tiwi Island)

Explications sur cette œuvre :

Alison born in 1984 and has grown up in Pirlangimpi Commumnity on Melville Island which is the big island of the Tiwi's. She went to the local school and worked in child care. She has one daughter, Anette Orsto known locally as Sugar Plum who is a great favourite at the art centre studio where Alison paints with her mother Paulina (Jedda) sharing the care of Sugar while one or the other paints. It
was Alison’s grandfather, Justin Puruntatameri (dec) a senior law man that knew all the songs and remembered visits by the Macassans as a boy that told Alison she should have a go at painting- she would listen to his stories of his paintings at the art centre and in the village.. He used to take the family hunting when she was little. Alison started painting with Munupi Arts in late 2011.

This work depicts the tidal movement of waters in and around the seas and creeks of the Tiwi Islands. Not just influencing fishing and hunting opportunities, the movement of water carries masses of silt and sand, transforming the land and changing the coastal landscape. Winga can also be translated as 'waves', just one part of the changing tides. Tidal surges are at their most powerful when a king tide occurs during the Wet Season, especially during a full moon.Cornelia has a strong bond to the waters surrounding the Tiwi Islands, forged by a lifetime of memories living encircled within the tides of the Arafura Sea.

Awards
2015 Primavera Veolia Acquisitive Prize

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