Artiste : Imitjala Pollard

Titre de l'œuvre : Imitjala Watarru

Format : 122 x 102 cm

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

Référence de cette peinture aborigène : 23-247

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Explications pour cette œuvre :

Imitjala Pollard is the daughter of the senior law woman Wipana Jimmy (dec). She born near the community of Ernabella, in 1963.
She was married at Ernabella and then followed her family group to the remote South Australia community of Watarru in the mid 1980s. At the time, her mother Wipana and other elders were setting up the Watarru homelands. Imitjala started painting in 1995. She is well known for her contribution to the collaborative artworks done by artists from the Watarru community as Beryl Jimmy, Tinpulya Mervin, and Wipana Jimmy. Together these women known as the 'Watarru Collaborative' depict Tjukurpa Dreaming Time stories.

Nyangatja Watarru (this is a place called Watarru). Watarru is our home. This is Anangu tjuta (many Anangu (people). Anangu tjuta are moving around, moving between waterholes and creeks, and looking for food. They go out in the daytime, looking around that country, looking through the bush. They look for food and bring what they find back to the kids at the camp. When the water finishes at one place, they move on to the next waterhole. If there’s no water, they keep walking until they find something. Knowing where to find the water is special knowledge. There is water in a lot of unlikely places. 

There are creeks, waterholes, rockholes, soakages and springs. Kapi wiru (good water) Nyangatja Watarru, this is a special place called Watarru. Watarru is my home. Anangu tjuta (people) are moving around, moving between waterholes and creeks, and looking for food. They search in the daytime, walking slowly and patiently around my country, trusting that they will find something to bring back to the children who are waiting at camp.

You can find artworks by the artist in the following prestigious collections :
Collaborative work - Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales. 
Collaborative work - Usa Nevada Art Museum, Nevada, Usa 
Collaborative work - Peter Cooke Collection, London 
Collaborative work - South Australian Parliament, Sa

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