of Tjuntjuntjara
Artists
Artists of Tjuntjuntjara
PART ONE
16 August - 16 September 2023
Aboriginal & Pacific Art in association with Spinifex Arts
Project, Tjuntjuntjara, Western Australia
Front cover image: Lawrence Pennington, Mituna #17-254, acrylic on canvas, 95 x 85cm
Kanta Donnegan
Untitled #19-318
Acrylic on linen
110 x 85 cm
Spinifex
Lands. Image courtesy Spinifex Arts Project 2023
Lawrence Pennington Mituna #17-254 Acrylic on canvas 95 x 85 cm
Lawrence Pennington is a senior man from Mituna in the Great Victoria Desert of Western Australia in an area known as the Spinifex Lands. Growing up as a young boy in this country and then following his initiations as a young man has given Lawrence intimate knowledge of the sites, the stories and the features of the Spinifex Lands. As a senior traditional owner of Mituna he is allowed to speak for this place and has painted it here in this major work. The painting details other sites of significance in the vicinity of Mituna including many small rockholes, which fill with water only after rain. Along the creek lines are trees kurku (mulga) and kurkara (desert oaks).
In significant painting such as this much of the detail placed into the work is miil-miilpa (dangerously sacred) and cannot be elaborated. Lawrence will identify the major sites shown, leaving the knowledge about what is at, or passes through that site, known only to those who have the status to already know. At Mituna several Tjukurpas are present including Wati Kutjara (the serpent men from Pukara) and Kalaya (Emu beings).
Lawrence Pennington
Wait Kutjara
#19-380
Acrylic on linen
137 x 90 cm
Fred Grant
Piralyi #20-155
Acrylic on linen
110 x 85 cm
Tjaruwa Woods
Tuwan and Kamanti
#14066
Acrylic on linen
60 x 75 cm
Simon Hogan
Lingka #21-175
Acrylic on linen
110 x 85 cm
110
Winmati Roberts
Tjara
#22-288
Acrylic on linen
x 85 cm
Mituna
Lawrence Pennington
#18-339
Acrylic on linen
110 x 85 cm
Tjuntjun
#21-236
Acrylic on linen
137 x 90 cm
Kanta Donnegan
Simon Hogan
Lingka
#21-387
Acrylic on linen
137 x 110 cm
Tjaruwa Woods
Kuru Ala
#14158
Acrylic on linen
137 x 90 cm
Purpurnya
#15-220
Acrylic on linen
137 x 90 cm
Tjaruwa Woods
Ian Rictor
Tuwan
#17-010
Acrylic on linen
137 x 90 cm
Spinifex Lands. Image Courtesy Spinifex Arts Project 2023
Dora Parker
Pukara Mapanpa
#22-334
Acrylic on linen
110 x 85 cm
Dora Parker
Wati Ngintaka
#22-241
Acrylic on linen
137 x 90 cm
Ian Rictor
Tuwan munu Kamanti
#23-94 Acrylic on linen 137 x 110 cm
Ian Rictor painting ‘Tuwan munu Kamanti’ at Spinifex Arts Project in 2023.
“Nyangatja painting ngayuku ngura Tuwan Tjuntjuntjara munkara alinytjara. Tuwan milmilpa kanyanyi Tjulpu Tjuta Tjukurpa ka Wati Nyii Nyii Tjuta Euclalakutu munu tjanampa kulata tjutaku kapingka tjura ka kapi pala katuni patila.”
This painting is of my country up north of Tjuntjuntjara called Tuwan. Tuwan holds the sacred Tjulpu Tjuta Tjukurpa (many Birds Creation Line) and follows a group of Wati Nyii Nyii (Zebra Finch Men) who travel to Eucla and place their many spears in the water to hold back the rising sea.
Ian Rictor
Tuwan
#23-165
Acrylic on linen 137 x 110 cm
Byron Brooks
Kapi Tjuta
#22-135
Acrylic on linen
137 x 110 cm
Artists of Tjuntjuntjara
PART ONE
Presented by Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney, in association with Spinifex Arts Project, Tjuntjuntjara, Western Australia
16 August - 16 September, 2023
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All images and text copyright the Artists and the community, Spinifex Arts Project, Tjuntjuntjara, Western Australia