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. [14112] (Acrylic on Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by LAWRENCE PENNINGTON of Spinifex Artists. The title is Pukara. [14112] (Acrylic on Linen)
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LAWRENCE PENNINGTON (dec)

Pukara
14112
Acrylic on Linen
 Pukara | 14112
Acrylic on Linen
 75 x 60cm | 29.53 x 23.62in
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Nyangatja kaliny-kalinypa ngura Pukaranya ka Wati Kutjara Pukaralanguru ka palatja panya katja Pukaralanguru.

This painting is depicting the honey grevillea (grevillea eriostachya) that is growing at Pukara. Pukara is the place where the Two Men come from. Shown here are those men, the father and son.

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.

Lawrence paints many sites in Spinifex country including Mituna, Nyuman (Walawaru - The Eagle Man), Piralungka, Mina-Mina, Kurlii, Karatjara, Pukara, Kalaya Piti and Karnka. 

Nyangatja kaliny-kalinypa ngura Pukaranya ka Wati Kutjara Pukaralanguru ka palatja panya katja Pukaralanguru.

This painting is depicting the honey grevillea (grevillea eriostachya) that is growing at Pukara. Pukara is the place where the Two Men come from. Shown here are those men, the father and son.

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...