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 Piltjitjara. [20-103] (Acrylic on Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by KUNMANARA PATJU PRESLEY of Spinifex Artists. The title is Piltjitjara. [20-103] (Acrylic on Linen)
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KUNMANARA PATJU PRESLEY (dec)

Piltjitjara
20-103
Acrylic on Linen
 Piltjitjara | 20-103
Acrylic on Linen
 137 x 90cm | 53.94 x 35.43in
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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 piltjitjara situated to the northeast of traditional Spinifex Lands.

This site manifest the Wati Tjutaku Tjukurpa (Many Men Creation Line) and Patju tells of the sacredness of the area with its kapi mankurpa (three rock holes).

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 piltjitjara situated to the northeast of traditional Spinifex Lands.

This site manifest the Wati Tjutaku Tjukurpa (Many Men Creation Line) and Patju tells of the sacredness of the area with its kapi mankurpa (three rock holes).

These characters that Patju depicts within a living, breathing landscape are the creation beings who shaped the...