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 Upalini. [20-213] (Acrylic on Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by KUNMANARA PATJU PRESLEY of Spinifex Artists. The title is Upalini. [20-213] (Acrylic on Linen)
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KUNMANARA PATJU PRESLEY (dec)

Upalini
20-213
Acrylic on Linen
 Upalini | 20-213
Acrylic on Linen
 200 x 137cm | 78.74 x 53.94in
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Patju Presley paints with such a spiritual confidence, as someone who knows their place in the Creation, often singing the associated songs of particular sites whilst rhythmically placing his myriad of dots.

Here he depicts the significant site of Upalini situated to the northeast of traditional Spinifex Lands. This site manifests the Wati Tawalpa Tjukurpa (Cresent nailed-tailed Wallaby Man Creation Line) and Patju tells that he is a very old man and this is a special place where he resides.

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, often singing the associated songs of particular sites whilst rhythmically placing his myriad of dots.

Here he depicts the significant site of Upalini situated to the northeast of traditional Spinifex Lands. This site manifests the Wati Tawalpa Tjukurpa (Cresent nailed-tailed Wallaby Man Creation Line) and Patju tells that he is a very old man and this is a special place where he resides....