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c.1920 – 2008
- Region
- Western Desert
- Community
- Amunturrngu (Mount Liebig, Amunturrungu, Watiyawanu, New Bore)
- Language group
- Pitjantjatjara
Rockholes near the Olgas, 2008
2 panels x 38 x 25 cm, 40 x 27 cm frame
Est. $2,500 – $3,500
Hammer $1,700
- Provenance
- Watiyawarnu Arts, Mt Leibig, Cat Nos. 10-08229 and 10-08301 Private Collection, NT
- Artwork story
- In this complementary pair of works, the compact spatial arrangement and saturated palette offer a distinct visual rhythm to the artist's rendition of rockholes near the Olgas in the Central Desert. The work seems to pulse inward, as if drawing viewers toward the heart of the story. The waterholes are not simply landscape features - they are places where spiritual and geological histories intersect. Collectors often seek multiple iterations of Bill Whiskey's work precisely because each one, while thematically related, opens a different visual door into an ancient cosmology rendered with startling modernity.