Making a Mark

A Collection of Fine Spinifex Indigenous Art

Making a Mark

A Collection of Fine Spinifex Indigenous Art

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by KUNMANARA PATJU PRESLEY of Spinifex Artists. The title is Kulpinya. [20-209] (Acrylic on Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by KUNMANARA PATJU PRESLEY of Spinifex Artists. The title is Kulpinya. [20-209] (Acrylic on Linen)
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KUNMANARA PATJU PRESLEY (dec)

Kulpinya
20-209
Acrylic on Linen
 Kulpinya | 20-209
Acrylic on Linen
 60 x 75cm | 23.62 x 29.53in
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Patju Presley paints with such a spiritual confidence, as someone who knows their place in the Creation. Here he depicts the significant site of Kulpinya situated in the north of traditional Spinifex Lands.

This site manifests the Walawuru Tjukurpa (Eagle Creation Line) and Patju tells of the two eagle children who travel a long way to the west and the father tracks them and brings them and returns them to Kulpinya where they are now buried.

These characters that Patju depicts within a living, breathing landscape are the creation beings who shaped the immediate environment as they moved through it, leaving a moral narrative etched into the physical domain as testament to their power and presence. it is this physical, spiritual and religious existence that cannot be separated for Patju and is what gives his work the transcendent quality we experience from it.

Patju Presley paints with such a spiritual confidence, as someone who knows their place in the Creation. Here he depicts the significant site of Kulpinya situated in the north of traditional Spinifex Lands.

This site manifests the Walawuru Tjukurpa (Eagle Creation Line) and Patju tells of the two eagle children who travel a long way to the west and the father tracks them and brings them and returns them to Kulpinya where they are now buried.

These characters that Patju depicts within...