Spinifex People Spinifex Lands

A Collection of Fine Spinifex Indigenous Art


Spinifex People Spinifex Lands

A Collection of Fine Spinifex Indigenous Art


LAWRENCE PENNINGTON (dec)

Mituna
17-253 (2017)
Acrylic on Linen
Mituna | 17-253
Acrylic on Linen
137 x 110cm | 53.94 x 43.31in
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Lawrence is a senior Spinifex man who has painted the country where he was born and some of the significant sites in the surrounding area in the Great Victoria Desert of Western Australia. Growing up as a young boy and then following his initiations as a young man in this country Lawrence holds an intimate knowledge of the sites, the stories and the features. Here he includes the rock holes from his country, the larger ones are Mituna and Pukara. Numerous smaller rock holes are also depicted along with the travelling tracks and indication of Tjukurpa. He has drawn in symbolic reference to the formations left behind in the landscape from the antics as these creation beings travel through the country.

Lawrence is a senior Spinifex man who has painted the country where he was born and some of the significant sites in the surrounding area in the Great Victoria Desert of Western Australia. Growing up as a young boy and then following his initiations as a young man in this country Lawrence holds an intimate knowledge of the sites, the stories and the features. Here he includes the rock holes from his country, the larger ones are Mituna and Pukara. Numerous smaller rock holes are also depicted along...