Boy’s Initiation - Wati Kutjarra, 2003

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Production notes: Acetates created at Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills WA, June 2002. Print published at Editions Tremblay NFP, Bungendore NSW, July 2003.
Exhibited: Yilpinji: Love Art and Ceremony, Australian Museum, Sydney; toured nationally and internationally (Australia, United States and Europe), 2002–2003. Curated by Dr Christine Nicholls; coordinated by Adrian Newstead for the Australian Art Print Network.
Artwork story: Tjumpo Tjapanangka’s print tells some of the story of the Wati Kutjarra, a prominent Dreaming in the Tanami and Great Sandy Deserts. The Wati Kutjarra were two ancestral brothers who travelled large areas of the Central and Western Deserts teaching ancestral people about food, fire and hunting. This print depicts the travels of the Wati Kutjarra to Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay). The two oblong shapes represent the two brothers where they lay down to sleep and the impressions they left behind are seen in the country today. The central circle depicts the fire they lit that morphed into a rockhole. At either end of the painting, wuungku or wilytja (protected area or windbreak) made of spinifex are depicted. These protect the men during ceremony. This print represents an important men’s ceremony, the details of which cannot be disclosed.

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c.1929 – 2007

original screenprint

$1,300

Secure payment via Stripe. Prices in AUD.

Production notes: Acetates created at Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills WA, June 2002. Print published at Editions Tremblay NFP, Bungendore NSW, July 2003.
Exhibited: Yilpinji: Love Art and Ceremony, Australian Museum, Sydney; toured nationally and internationally (Australia, United States and Europe), 2002–2003. Curated by Dr Christine Nicholls; coordinated by Adrian Newstead for the Australian Art Print Network.
Artwork story: Tjumpo Tjapanangka’s print tells some of the story of the Wati Kutjarra, a prominent Dreaming in the Tanami and Great Sandy Deserts. The Wati Kutjarra were two ancestral brothers who travelled large areas of the Central and Western Deserts teaching ancestral people about food, fire and hunting. This print depicts the travels of the Wati Kutjarra to Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay). The two oblong shapes represent the two brothers where they lay down to sleep and the impressions they left behind are seen in the country today. The central circle depicts the fire they lit that morphed into a rockhole. At either end of the painting, wuungku or wilytja (protected area or windbreak) made of spinifex are depicted. These protect the men during ceremony. This print represents an important men’s ceremony, the details of which cannot be disclosed.