Artiste : Ginger Wikilyiri

Titre de l'œuvre : Piltati - Dreaming Time stories

Format : 150 x 100 cm

Provenance et certificat : centre d'art aborigène de Tjungu Palya

Référence de cette peinture aborigène : 12047

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Explications pour cette œuvre :

Ginger was born at Kunamata a rock hole south of Nyapari in 1930. His father had three wives. Wingu Tingima is the daughter of the first wife and Ginger the son of the second. Ginger is a senior law man and has cultural responsibilities for both Kunamata and Piltati.
His passion for landmanagement and horticulture has taken him to Israel where he learnt about arid land techniques and Mutijulu where he worked for many years as a ranger for Uluru-KAta Tjuta National Park.

This artworks refers to a Tjurkurpa as a love story. This is a story about two brothers and two sisters. The two 'watis' (brothers) - two water snakes, are at the Piltati rockhole waiting for two sisters.

The two sisters who married two brothers and they all lived together.

One day the women went wandering and they went such a long way that they forgot about their husbands. Back at the camp, the two husbands were thinking, 'Where are our wives?' and they decided to go looking for them. One brother said to the other, 'What should we become to go looking for them?' and the other brother said 'Why don't we become Rainbow Serpents?' And they travelled in the sky looking down for their wives. Finally they see them hunting for carpet snakes and they put something in the hole where the women were digging. The women find it and then dig another hole and once again the men have put something in there. And this is how the men lure the women back to Piltati where the men make the sisters transform into Wanampi, swallow them and keep them in their throats. All four of them live together in the waterhole and still live there today.

You can find artworks by the artists in the following prestigious collections :
Araluen Art Collection, Department Of Natural Resources, Environment,
Art Gallery Of South Australia, Adelaide,
Artbank, Australian Government National
Australian National University, Canberra,
Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria.
Dr. Ian Bernadt Collection, Perth,
Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia.
Lagerberg-Swift Collection, Perth, Western
Macquarie Bank
National Gallery Of Australia, Canberra,
Australian Capital Territory
National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne,
The Beat Knoblacuch Collection, Switzerland.
The Corrigan Collection, Sydney, 
The Lepley Collection, Perth, Western
The Marshall Collection, Adelaide, South
The Merenda Collection, Perth, Western
The Parliament House Collection, Canberra,
University Of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
W & V Mcgeoch, Melbourne, Victoria
The Collection Of Berengere Primat, Geneva
The Kennedy Collection, Sydney, Nsw

© Photo : Aboriginal Signature Estrangin gallery with the courtesy of the artists and Tjungu Palya.