Artiste : Women collaborative

Titre de l'œuvre : Seven Sisters

Format : 230 x 200 cm

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

Référence de cette peinture : 21-21

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Kungkarangkalpa is a major Western Desert Tjukurpa also known as the Seven Sisters). Tjukurpa is the Pitjantjatjara concept for describing the formative creation where ancestral beings create the world. These beings are Anangu ancestors, who can take the form of people, plants or animals. They traverse the country; forming the world we live in, creating the waterholes, the trees, the clay pans, the rocky outcrops, the sand hills and the Spinifex plains. These land formations are the physical manifestation of the creation energy and tangible evidence that this Tjukurpa is true. This Tjukurpa of the Seven Sisters is an epic songline in the Western Desert and tells the story of many women traveling throughout the desert hunting and carrying out ritual obligations all the while being pursued by a cheeky old man in pursuit of a wife. Nyiru the man, is capable of changing form and does this on occasion in order to trick the women.

Many parts of the story are secret and involve a sexual element. Only the public details of this story are allowed to be put down in paint.

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.