Artiste : Patju Presley

Titre de l'œuvre : Karatjara

Format : 230 x 200 cm

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

Référence de cette peinture : 19-2

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Patju has depicted the significant site of Karatjara situated to the north of traditional Spinifex Lands. This site forms part of the Wati Kinara Tjukurpa or Moon Man Creation Line and there is a large rocky outcrop here with a cave that wati pira made his own. Inside the cave are paintings that wati pira etched during creation time, with footprints of all the animals painted within the cave. At the base of the rocky formation is where the rockhole Karatjara lays.

These are creation beings who shaped the landscape as they moved through it leaving indelible monolithic reminders of their power and presence. Beings capable of metamorphic transformation that made the moral compass that still guides Anangu on a daily basis.

Patju Presley paints with a passion for country as he evokes his 'early days' nomadic wanderings with his immediate family throughout the vast country he calls home. He is a master story teller of the Tjukurpa - creation events that shaped the environment we see today and is knowledgeable on many inma (traditional dancing and singing) for site specific ceremony.

Patju Presley (1945) was born in the 1940s at Itaratjara, an important site between to the community settlement of Watarru and Kalayapiti in the Great Victoria Desert.

His artworks are in the following prestigious collections : Art Gallery Of Western Australia, Perth, Wa. The National Gallery Of Australia, Canberra, Act. National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne. The Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney, Nsw. The Kaplan-Levi Collection, Usa. University Of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Qld. Art Gallery Of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia (Mens Collaborative). Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane...