![Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by PATJU PRESLEY of Spinifex Artists. The title is Kuntuwa. [20-208] (Acrylic on Linen)](https://media.redotgallery.com/stockroom/gallery/k/kuntuwa-5895-SMALL.jpg)
PATJU PRESLEY
Kuntuwa
Patju Presley was born in the 1940s at Itari, an important site close to the community settlement of Watarru in the Pitjantjatjara Lands of South Australia.
He is a senior Pitjantjatjara Law man with great knowledge of the geograhpy of the Western Desert and the associated Tjukurpa.
His intimate knowledge of the country is directly related to survival in this beautiful but sometimes harsh environment learned from the generations of his ancestors who walked before him.
Connections between the Land, the provider of food, water and shelter and the Tjukurpa a spiritual understanding of the world are finely interwoven in his paintings, creating works of an elegant abstraction.
Each work related to a specific site or ancestoral being and are strongly based on his experience and perception of the Law and the Land.
.Patju Presley was born in the 1940s at Itari, an important site close to the community settlement of Watarru in the Pitjantjatjara Lands of South Australia.
He is a senior Pitjantjatjara Law man with great knowledge of the geograhpy of the Western Desert and the associated Tjukurpa.
His intimate knowledge of the country is directly related to survival in this beautiful but sometimes harsh environment learned from the generations of his ancestors who walked before him.
Connections between the Land, the provider of food, water and shelter and the Tjukurpa a spiritual understanding of the world are finely interwoven in his paintings, creating works of an elegant abstraction.
Each work related to a specific site or ancestoral being and are strongly based on his experience and perception of the Law and the Land.
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