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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Carbiene McDonald, Four Dreamings, 2024

Carbiene McDonald Australian, Pintupi, b. 1961

Four Dreamings, 2024
acrylic on canvas
91.5 x 112 cm
13357-24
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'This is Petermann Range near Kaltukatjara - that's Docker River [Community). Puta Puta, Tjunti, Muliati. This is my father's Country'. Carbiene's father was Snowy McDonald. He, like many other Pintupi-Pitjantjatjara...
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'This is Petermann Range near Kaltukatjara - that's Docker River [Community). Puta Puta, Tjunti, Muliati. This is my father's Country'.

Carbiene's father was Snowy McDonald. He, like many other Pintupi-Pitjantjatjara people eventually moved east and north to refuges such as the Lutheran Mission at Ernabella, and Areyonga, during difficult drought times about 60-70 years ago. Some even ended up in Papunya once it opened as a Government Reserve in the early 1960s, as was the case of Carbiene's father.

The shapes Carbiene paints represent an abstracted form of a series of important waterholes through the Petermann Ranges. Some of these sacred places now also have small Family Outstations or Homelands established nearby. For example, Tjunti is the name of a family outstation named for a soakage where the Hull River cuts through the Petermann Ranges. This is where Lasseter took refuge during his ill-fated expedition in search of gold. The cave he was found in near Tjunti is called Kulpi Tjuntinya (now commonly called Lasseter's Cave in English).

The Petermann Ranges have now been designated an area of Conservation significance and the government work closely with local families in managing the area.
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