Artiste : Johnathon Bush

Titre de l'œuvre : Jilamara

Pigments naturels sur toile de lin Belge

Format : 150 x 150cm

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

Référence de la peinture : 361-17

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

Explications pour cette œuvre :

All jilamara (design) are originally drawn from the body painting which accompanied the pukumani (funeral) and kulama (initiation/yam) ceremonies. An individual design and aesthetic is highly valued by Tiwi artists and is representative of their personal interpretation of the traditional Tiwi design or jilamara.

In this work Johnathon has explored the use of charcoal which was traditionally used by his ancestors when painting onto the body or pukamani poles, instead of black gesso as a base colour. Johnathon discovered Jackson Pollocks work in early 2017 and was really taken by the chaos of the splattered and dripped paint marks over the painted surface.

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