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SPINIFEX 2022: OPENING AUGUST 12 @ 6PM : ALL WELCOME

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12 August - 8 September 2022
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Patju Presley Stanley, Ilunya, 2022

Patju Presley Stanley Australian, Pitjantjatjara, b. 1945

Ilunya, 2022
acrylic on linen
200 x 137 cm
22-217
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Patju Presley paints with such spiritual confidence, as someone who knows their place in the Creation, often singing the associated songs of particular sites whilst rhythmically placing his myriad of...
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Patju Presley paints with such spiritual confidence, as someone who knows their place in the Creation, often singing the associated songs of particular sites whilst rhythmically placing his myriad of dots to form his striking compositions. Here he depicts the significant site of Ilunya that holds the Minyma Tjinttir-tjintirpa Tjukurpa (The Willie Wagtail Women Creation Line). This place is close to Kampurarpapiti, Pila, Ilu, and Karngkanya. "Right around" says Patju" my area, I was a boy walking all around here with my mother and father, grandmother and grandfather. Ngura pulkanya, big country, important place."

These characters that Patju depicts within a living, breathing landscape are the creation beings who shaped the immediate environment as they moved through it, leaving a moral narrative etched into the physical domain as testament to their power and presence. It is this physical, spiritual and religious existence that cannot be separated for Patju and is what gives his work the transcendent quality we experience from it.
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