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DESERT CREATURES: A Study of Figurative animals from the Desert

Past exhibition
10 September - 7 October 2021
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Aaron Pei Pei, Kamela, 2020

Aaron Pei Pei Australian, Pitjantjatjara, b. 1970

Kamela, 2020
acrylic on canvas
55.9 x 91.4 cm
70036
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When Aaron paints he slowly makes his way across the canvas stroke-by-stroke, culminating in wacky, high textured representations of animals and landscape. He is known for his upside down trees,...
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When Aaron paints he slowly makes his way across the canvas stroke-by-stroke, culminating in wacky, high textured representations of animals and landscape. He is known for his upside down trees, floating rock holes, and disproportioned animals, which ask the audience to suspend reality in order to delve into his cheerful recollections of country.
Kaltukatjara, where Aaron lives, is full of kamela (camels) and wild brumbies. At night you can hear their hooves click clacking down the bitumen in search of water. Aaron explains this painting saying, “that thirsty camel was looking for that other camel. They went looking and they found him. They had a drink at that water”.
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