Artiste : Muuki Taylor (1944)

Titre de l'œuvre : Kulyakartu

Format : 122 x 91 cm

Provenance et certificat : centre d'art aborigène de Martumili

Référence de cette peinture : 13-823

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Explications pour cette œuvre :

“My Country, Kulyakartu. I grew up there, from little boy to big boy grew up there.”

This painting depicts Muuki’s Country, Kulyakartu; an area in the far north of the Martu homelands, near the Percival Lakes in the northern Great Sandy Desert. The artist has extensive knowledge of the Country in this region, where he grew up living traditionally during the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) days with his family. Kulyakartu is mostly grass Country where there is very good hunting. There is no permanent water source in Kulyakartu, so his family would walk here annually following the wet season.

Muuki paints his Country in all its different seasonal stages. Often visible in his work is the patchwork of nyurnma (burnt ground) depicting the regrowth subsequent to the practice of waru (fire) burning that assists with hunting, regenerates growth, and encourages greater diversity in plant and animal life.

© Photo Aboriginal Signatrure Estrangin Gallery, and text with the courtesy of the Artist and Martumili Arts