Alison Anderson Australian, Luritja, b. 1958
Alison Anderson Australian, Luritja, b. 1958
The secret at the desert's heart, 2020
Acrylic on Linen
140 x 100 cm
840739
In this work I reflect on the richness of traditional desert culture and my homeland in the country around Papunya, the community where I witnessed the indigenous painting movement’s first...
In this work I reflect on the richness of traditional desert culture and my homeland in the country around Papunya, the community where I witnessed the indigenous painting movement’s first beginnings: here I paint the landscape and the sacred traditions it contains and shelters - secrets that can be hinted at but never disclosed to outsiders. This energy of secrecy lies in every square of the work: the cells are like portals, doors which hint at what lies beneath the surface of the earth and beyond the reach of the onlooking eye