rawa tjunguku - working together a long time

New major works from Spinifex Arts Project

rawa tjunguku - working together a long time

New major works from Spinifex Arts Project

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by IAN RICTOR of Spinifex Artists. The title is Tuwan. [24-335] (Acrylic on Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by IAN RICTOR of Spinifex Artists. The title is Tuwan. [24-335] (Acrylic on Linen)
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IAN RICTOR

Tuwan
24-335 (2024)
Acrylic on Linen
 Tuwan | 24-335
Acrylic on Linen
 200 x 137cm | 78.74 x 53.94in
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Nyangatja painting ngayuku ngura Tuwan Tjuntjuntjara munkara alinytjara. Tuwan milmilpa kanyanyi Tjulpu Tjuta Tjukurpa ka Wati Nyii Nyii Tjuta Euclalakutu munu tjanampa kulata tjutaku kapingka tjura ka kapi pala katuni patila.

This painting is of my country north of Tjuntjuntjara called Tuwan. Tuwan holds the sacred Tjulpu Tjuta Tjukurpa (many Birds Creation Line) and follows a group of Wati Nyii Nyii (Zebra Finch Men) who travel to Eucla and place their many spears in the water to hold back the rising sea.

In Spinifex Country, many of the senior men say that if you have never drunk the water from a significant rockhole then you do not truly know the place. If this is true, than there are few places in the deserts of Spinifex country that Ian Rictor does not know intimately.

Nyangatja painting ngayuku ngura Tuwan Tjuntjuntjara munkara alinytjara. Tuwan milmilpa kanyanyi Tjulpu Tjuta Tjukurpa ka Wati Nyii Nyii Tjuta Euclalakutu munu tjanampa kulata tjutaku kapingka tjura ka kapi pala katuni patila.

This painting is of my country north of Tjuntjuntjara called Tuwan. Tuwan holds the sacred Tjulpu Tjuta Tjukurpa (many Birds Creation Line) and follows a group of Wati Nyii Nyii (Zebra Finch Men) who travel to Eucla and place their many spears in the water to hold back...