Artiste : Women collaborative

Titre de l'œuvre : Minyma Tjuta

Format : 290 x 200 cm

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

Référence de cette peinture : 21-198

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Five senior Spinifex Artists; Myrtle Pennington, Kanta Donnegan, Ngalpingka Simms, Sophia Brown, Katie Brown and Tracey Simms have collaborated in the process of this painting depicting Minyma Tjuta Tjukurpa (Seven Sisters Creation Line). This Creation Line follows the movements of a group of sisters who traverse the country evading the clutches of a lustful older man known as Nyiru. Nyiru is pursuing the women to satisfy his desire for the eldest sister who he wishes to take for his wife. He is a sorcerer of sorts and can metamorphose into animals or plants and does this on several occasions in an attempt to capture the women but always they seem to narrowly escape. It is within these involved actions that the landscape is created and formations left as ever present reminders of the power and presence of the creation beings.

The women take a path north and eventually fly into the sky to become the Pleiades Constellation: one of the closest star clusters to earth. Although each women knows this major Tjukurpa, they are bound by cultural protocol and custodial responsibility as to which country they can depict. As the country and Tjukurpa unfolds during the creation of a major work like this, the women ‘sing the place’ into reality. Traditional inma (singing and dancing) is triggered as the depictions of places, that the women may not have physically seen for many years, begin to manifest onto the canvas.

Their major collaborative paintings are in the following prestigious collections : Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht. Art Gallery Of South Australia, Adelaide,S.A.. Prince Stefan Von Und Zu Liechtenstein, The Ambassador Of Liechtenstein In Germany. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Usa. Staatliches Museum Fur Volkerkunde, Munich, Germany. The British Museum, London, England. The National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. Western Australian Museum, Perth. The Opale Fondation.