Mens Dreaming, 2007

166.5 x 121.5 cm, 169.5 x 125.5 cm frame

Est. $6,000 – $8,000

Provenance: Ikunji Art Centre, NT, Cat No IK07JC117 Metro Five Gallery, Vic Private Collection, Vic
Artwork story: Justin Corby was born in Kintore on the border of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. This bold geometric design relates to his father's story of the Kanpi Tjukurrpa (Emu Dreaming) by drawing on ancient Pintupi narratives in which the emu is a powerful ancestral being. The story describes the emu's journey across the land, shaping waterholes, songlines, and sacred sites still honoured today. The intricate patterns and rhythmic lines are borrowed from the ancient men's key designs seen on ceremonial objects. It represents the emu's nesting places, and spiritual presence in his country. This painting is a connection to ancestral knowledge and an act of cultural continuity, transmitting the law, land, and lineage through contemporary expression.

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Sale 1 · Lot 81

b. 1982

166.5 x 121.5 cm, 169.5 x 125.5 cm frame

Est. $6,000 – $8,000

Provenance: Ikunji Art Centre, NT, Cat No IK07JC117 Metro Five Gallery, Vic Private Collection, Vic
Artwork story: Justin Corby was born in Kintore on the border of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. This bold geometric design relates to his father's story of the Kanpi Tjukurrpa (Emu Dreaming) by drawing on ancient Pintupi narratives in which the emu is a powerful ancestral being. The story describes the emu's journey across the land, shaping waterholes, songlines, and sacred sites still honoured today. The intricate patterns and rhythmic lines are borrowed from the ancient men's key designs seen on ceremonial objects. It represents the emu's nesting places, and spiritual presence in his country. This painting is a connection to ancestral knowledge and an act of cultural continuity, transmitting the law, land, and lineage through contemporary expression.