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 Pukara. [14054] (Acrylic on Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by LAWRENCE PENNINGTON of Spinifex Artists. The title is Pukara. [14054] (Acrylic on Linen)
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LAWRENCE PENNINGTON (dec)

Pukara
14054
Acrylic on Linen
 Pukara | 14054
Acrylic on Linen
 60 x 75cm | 23.62 x 29.53in
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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 civilization. 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 has painted the site of Pukara here, a significant Tjukurpa traversing huge distances across the Spinifex Lands. The story involves a father and son wanampi (water serpents).

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 civilization. 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 has...