Wati Wara - Lawrence Pennington Solo

A Collection of Fine Spinifex Indigenous Art

Wati Wara - Lawrence Pennington Solo

A Collection of Fine Spinifex Indigenous Art

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by LAWRENCE PENNINGTON of Spinifex Artists. The title is Mituna Wipiya. [15-74] (Acrylic on Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by LAWRENCE PENNINGTON of Spinifex Artists. The title is Mituna Wipiya. [15-74] (Acrylic on Linen)
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LAWRENCE PENNINGTON (dec)

Mituna Wipiya
15-74
Acrylic on Linen
 Mituna Wipiya | 15-74
Acrylic on Linen
 75 x 60cm | 29.53 x 23.62in
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In this painting, Lawrence Pennington has painted wipiya at Mituna. Wipiya are fluffy emu feathers, which relate to the Kalaya Tjukurpa as the Emu men pass through here. Traditionally emu feathers were used to wrap minkurpa, a tobacco plant which grows wild in certain rocky parts of the desert and has a slightly narcotic affect.

Lawrence Pennington is a senior initiated man from Spinifex country. At the time of Lawrence’s birth in the early 1930’s, his people, the Spinifex people had no contact with western civilisation. Lawrence grew up as a young boy living a fully traditional hunter-gatherer life. His initiations as a young man in this country have given Lawrence intimate knowledge in a physical as well as a spiritual sense of the sites and stories of the area he was born and responsible for. Lawrence’s works possess a rare power that stem from this deep connection to culture and country.

In this painting, Lawrence Pennington has painted wipiya at Mituna. Wipiya are fluffy emu feathers, which relate to the Kalaya Tjukurpa as the Emu men pass through here. Traditionally emu feathers were used to wrap minkurpa, a tobacco plant which grows wild in certain rocky parts of the desert and has a slightly narcotic affect.

Lawrence Pennington is a senior initiated man from Spinifex country. At the time of Lawrence’s birth in the early 1930’s, his people, the Spinifex people...