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![Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by KUNMANARA PATJU PRESLEY of Spinifex Artists. The title is Pinanti. [25-69] (Acrylic on Linen)](https://media.redotgallery.com/stockroom/gallery/p/artwork/p/pinanti-6327-LARGE-2.jpg)
25-69 (2025)
Acrylic on Linen
Pinanti | 25-69
Acrylic on Linen
230 x 200cm | 90.55 x 78.74in
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Patju Presley has painted Pinanti, country in the northern portion of the Spinifex Lands belonging to the Walawuru Tjukurpa (Eagle Man Creation story). This is a men’s Tjukurpa and is miil-miilpa (sacred) so much of the detail is omitted in the telling to the uninitiated. Patju says that it involves the Eagle Man and Woman chasing nganamara, the ancestral mallee fowl, which is also food for the eagle. As they chase the nganamara over vast tracts of country their children, a brother and sister jump out of the chase at Nyuman. The parents, in their pursuit west towards Wiluna, don’t realise the children have stayed behind.
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![Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by KUNMANARA PATJU PRESLEY of Spinifex Artists. The title is Wati Nyir-Nyir. [22-27] (Acrylic on Linen)](https://media.redotgallery.com/stockroom/gallery/w/artwork/p/wati-nyir-nyir-6367-LARGE-1.jpg)
22-27 (2022)
Acrylic on Linen
Wati Nyir-Nyir | 22-27
Acrylic on Linen
200 x 137cm | 78.74 x 53.94in
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Patju Presley paints with the colourful confidence of someone who knows their spiritual place in the landscape. Here he depicts
country associated with Wati Nyir -Nyir (Lizard man Creation Line).
This is a Mens' narrative that cannot be elaborated on except to say Wati Nyir - Nyir was speared near Watarru and crawled all the way to near Amata where a prominent rock bluff displays his face and beard.
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.
country associated with Wati Nyir -Nyir (Lizard man Creation Line).
This is a Mens' narrative that cannot be elaborated on except to say Wati Nyir - Nyir was speared near Watarru and crawled all the way to near Amata where a prominent rock bluff displays his face and beard.
These characters that Patju depicts within a living, breathing landscape are the... Read More
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