Artiste : Noli Rictor

Titre de l'œuvre : Manutju

Format : 137 x 140 cm

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

Référence de cette peinture : 18-154

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Explications pour cette œuvre :

Here he has painted the significant site of Mamutju located in the northern part of the Spinifex Lands and encompassing the area known as Palka Palka.

Noli states it is a large area of salt lakes, plains and rocky outcrops and also several rockholes. Noli traversed this area as a boy with his family.

Noli depicts country he was born into and which formed his religious upbringing. The arid but spiritual environment was the birthplace of the creation beings who shaped the landscape as they moved through it. They left indelible physical reminders of their power in the form of creeks or rocky ridges or a type of tree.

But mostly they left their place of abode or the life giving sought after source of precious water, in some form of catchment. This water source is the embodiment of survival within the remote desert extremes with the sites being venerated as such and usually guarded by beings who shifted through the realms. They are the characters who dramatise the landscape and give rise to the formations through their movements. They leave behind a mapped moral landscape that holds an elaborate oral religion of song and performance that still permeates Noli's daily life.