![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.jpg)
20-208 (2020)
Acrylic on Linen
Kuntuwa | 20-208
Acrylic on Linen
60 x 75cm | 23.6 x 29.5in
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Patju Presley paints with such a spiritual confidence, as someone who knows their place in the Creation. Here he depicts the significant site of Kuntuwa situated to the northeast of traditional Spinifex Lands near present day Watarru.
This site manifests the Tjitji Tjuta Tjukurpa (Many Children Creation Line) and Patju describes the the site as inma pulka (dancing ground) and where everyone came to see the children dancing.
These characters that Patju depicts within a living, breathing landscape are the creation beings who shaped the immediate environment as they moved through it, leaving a moral narrative etched into the physical domain as testament to their power and presence. it is this physical, spiritual and religious existence that cannot be separated for Patju and is what gives his work the transcendent quality we experience from it.
This site manifests the Tjitji Tjuta Tjukurpa (Many Children Creation Line) and Patju describes the the site as inma pulka (dancing ground) and where everyone came to see the children dancing.
These characters that Patju depicts within a living, breathing... Read More