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 Upatji. [20-207] (Acrylic on Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by KUNMANARA PATJU PRESLEY of Spinifex Artists. The title is Upatji. [20-207] (Acrylic on Linen)
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KUNMANARA PATJU PRESLEY (dec)

Upatji
20-207
Acrylic on Linen
 Upatji | 20-207
Acrylic on Linen
 75 x 60cm | 29.53 x 23.62in
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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 Upatji situated well to the north of traditional Spinifex Lands.

This site manifests the Wati Tjilpiku Tjukurpa (Old Man Creation Line) and Patju describes the country as ’very sacred and where they were grinding the seeds from the ngalta (Kurrajong tree).

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 Upatji situated well to the north of traditional Spinifex Lands.

This site manifests the Wati Tjilpiku Tjukurpa (Old Man Creation Line) and Patju describes the country as ’very sacred and where they were grinding the seeds from the ngalta (Kurrajong tree).

These characters that Patju depicts within a living, breathing landscape are...