Stockroom Christmas Show 2010

Our Annual Christmas Stockroom Show, Showcasing Affordable Artwork from ALL Community Art Centres


Stockroom Christmas Show 2010

Our Annual Christmas Stockroom Show, Showcasing Affordable Artwork from ALL Community Art Centres


NOLA AND COILEY CAMPBELL

Kapitu Kapitu
07-053
Acrylic on Linen
Kapitu Kapitu | 07-053
Acrylic on Linen
51 x 51cm | 20.08 x 20.08in
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Nola has helped her husband Coiley Campbell paint his country that he walked around and lived off as a young man. The concentric circles represent the water sites that sustained him and his family for countless generations.

Yunpalarra, a large dry lakebed (walatu), West of Patjarr, marked on maps as Lake Blair is shown. Tjitu, a group of rockholes, Kunamarra, two large rockholes, Kukupitjarra, Kalpi, Tamantjarra, Tika Tika, Wyul, Tartjarr - a permanent soak water site, with a big wanampi (water snake) an important rain place, Yurrultjarra, Wanaritjarra, Talilla, Kariwarra and Patjarr are shown and named by the artists. Nola and Coiley used to walk kapitu - kapitu (rockhole to rockhole) in the time before clothes.

Nola has helped her husband Coiley Campbell paint his country that he walked around and lived off as a young man. The concentric circles represent the water sites that sustained him and his family for countless generations. Yunpalarra, a large dry lakebed (walatu), West of Patjarr, marked on maps as Lake Blair is shown. Tjitu, a group of rockholes, Kunamarra, two large rockholes, Kukupitjarra, Kalpi, Tamantjarra, Tika Tika, Wyul, Tartjarr - a permanent soak water site, with a big wanampi (water...