Artiste : Ian Rictor

Titre de l'œuvre : Kamanti munu Tjilupi

Format : 110 × 85 cm

Provenance et certificat : centre d'art aborigène du Spinifex Art Project

Référence de cette peinture : 25-462

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Explications pour cette œuvre :

Ian Rictor (1962) paints with a quiet reverence for the country that he depicts, from his relatively recent nomadic movements over the endless interior that makes up Spinifex Lands. Ian walked from water source to food source and beyond, this was a cultural and family existence for survival in an arid land before his family were found and' brought in' by relatives in 1986, making them the last known hunter gatherer in Australia. Ian's compositions center on the life affirming sites he depicts and each are multi layered with meaning. Many are surrounded with secrecy and only surface details can be recorded. 

His compositions are meditations on Tjukurpa and place, mapping life-affirming sites through a complex interplay of gesture, texture, and chromatic depth. Each work operates on multiple levels of meaning — much of which remains deliberately veiled, accessible only to those with the cultural authority to interpret it. In his most recent series, Rictor expands his visual vocabulary through new depictions of Country, taking the prolific hardwood wanari (mulga) as a conceptual and material point of departure. Through this engagement, he articulates both continuity and transformation — grounding contemporary painting within an ancestral landscape that remains alive, resonant, and infinitely layered.

Kanturangu (desert poplar, Codonocarpus cotinifolius) is the name of the tree that maku (witchety grub) inhabit. This painting depicts the bushy kanturangu at Kamanti rockhole, where there is kapi piti kutjara - two rockholes. Lots of water, rawa nginanyi – lots of water for a long time. Mr Rictor recalls sitting at Kamanti as a tjitji (child) looking for maku and camping there for some time with his family. The rockhole above is Tjilupi.

Ian Rictor holds knowledge that defies his age. He walked all of Spinifex Country as a child and into his adulthood until his world was abruptly changed when a search party made-up of his long lost relatives tracked and successful ‘found’ Ian and his family’s camp deep within Spinifex Country. However, Ian and his family were never lost but had been thriving off the fruits of their deep and profound knowledge of the Spinifex estate, its Tjukurpa and resources.

His artworks are in the following prestigious collection :
Collection Prince Stefan Of Liechtenstein, Embassy Of Liechtenstein In Germany. (Mens Collaborate)
National Gallery Of Australia, Canberra, Act (Mens Collaborative)
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Usa. (Mens Collaborative)
The Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht
The British Museum, London. (Mens Collaborative)
The Corrigan Collection, Australia (Mens Collaborative)
Wagner And Owen Collection, Usa.
W. & V. Mcgeoch Collection, Melbourne, Vic. (Mens Collaborative)
Art Gallery Of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia (Mens Collaborative)