Artiste : Ian Rictor

Titre de l'œuvre : Tuwan Dreaming Time story

Format : 137 x 110 cm

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

Référence de cette peinture : 21-341

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Explications pour cette œuvre :

Ian Rictor (1960) 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. Here he paints the significant site of Tuwan, situated in the heart of traditional Spinifex Country and where Ian has birth connection and custodial obligation to.

Tuwan is a site that holds the Tjulpu Tjuta Tjukurpa (Many Birds Creation Line), a highly sensitive Mens narrative of epic proportions. It is from here at Tuwan, where a group of powerful Wati Nyii-Nyii (Zebra Finch Men) depart for the southern coast to save the world from the rising seas.

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)