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Spinifex 2024: Exceptional Artwork from Tjuntjuntjarra

Past exhibition
10 May - 6 June 2024
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lawrence Pennington, Mituna, 2023

Lawrence Pennington Australian, Pitjantjatjara, b. 1934

Mituna, 2023
acrylic on linen
110 x 85 cm
23-371
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Lawrence Pennington touches the deepest qualities of the Tjukurpa in the unseen, taking the broad brush to minimal resemblance of the characters that inhabited the first journey. He guides the...
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Lawrence Pennington touches the deepest qualities of the Tjukurpa in the unseen, taking the broad brush to minimal resemblance of the characters that inhabited the first journey. He guides the significant site of Mituna effortlessly onto the canvas, channelling the essence of Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line) from a time before when Lawrence walked throughout Spinifex Country. A time when he walked with the Song, following the physical manifestation in the landscape left by the creation beings from Pukara, of the stories that made it so, of the characters that played out the journey. The Two Men are a father and son Wanampi (powerful water serpent) who traverse the vast tracts of Spinifex Country on ceremonial business. The son is forever becoming embroiled in conflict and the father must continually keep a watchful eye and resolves his son's problems. These are creation beings who changed the landscape with their moral actions, as moved through it, leaving indelible physical reminders of their power and presence of transformation.
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