Artist: Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri | Title: Untitled | Medium: acrylic on canvas board | Dimensions: 25.4 x 50.8 cm
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/ REGION
Mount Liebig, NT
LANGUAGE
Pitjantjatjara
BIOGRAPHY
Pitjantjatjara people joined the Western Desert art movement during the 1990s, somewhat later than other tribes. They resisted the move to painting their sacred Dreaming Stories on canvas, for public display and sale. Perhaps this partly explains why Bill Whiskey developed his own interpretation of the ancient iconography, though keeping within the conventions of the contemporary ‘dot-painting’ style… Continue Reading
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/ REGION
Mount Liebig, NT
LANGUAGE
Pitjantjatjara
BIOGRAPHY
Pitjantjatjara people joined the Western Desert art movement during the 1990s, somewhat later than other tribes. They resisted the move to painting their sacred Dreaming Stories on canvas, for public display and sale. Perhaps this partly explains why Bill Whiskey developed his own interpretation of the ancient iconography, though keeping within the conventions of the contemporary ‘dot-painting’ style… Continue Reading
