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. [15-45] (Acrylic on Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by LAWRENCE PENNINGTON of Spinifex Artists. The title is Pukara. [15-45] (Acrylic on Linen)
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LAWRENCE PENNINGTON (dec)

Pukara
15-45
Acrylic on Linen
 Pukara | 15-45
Acrylic on Linen
 75 x 60cm | 29.53 x 23.62in
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Nyangatja Wati Kutjara ka Wanampi Kutjara ka mama munu katja Pukaranguru ka Pukara kapi piti pulkana ka pula panya tjina ankupai inma inkanyi ka kapi piti kutjupa kutjupa ka Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa pulka mulapa ngura kutjupa kutjupa Tjukurpa mulapa.

This is the Two Men or Two Water Serpent Men from creation time. They are a father and son pair who came from a place called Pukara, a large waterhole and travelled to numerous other waterholes performing ceremony. The story of the Two Men is large and traverses a great amount of country. It is a true story.

In this work Lawrence Pennington has drawn the Two Men (lines) next to the large rockhole which represents Pukara. The son has a kali (boomerang).

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.

Nyangatja Wati Kutjara ka Wanampi Kutjara ka mama munu katja Pukaranguru ka Pukara kapi piti pulkana ka pula panya tjina ankupai inma inkanyi ka kapi piti kutjupa kutjupa ka Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa pulka mulapa ngura kutjupa kutjupa Tjukurpa mulapa.

This is the Two Men or Two Water Serpent Men from creation time. They are a father and son pair who came from a place called Pukara, a large waterhole and travelled to numerous other waterholes performing ceremony. The story of the Two Men is large...