SPINIFEX 2022: OPENING AUGUST 12 @ 6PM : ALL WELCOME
Past exhibition
Patju Presley Stanley Australian, Pitjantjatjara, b. 1945
Wati Nyir-Nyir, 2022
acrylic on linen
200 x 137 cm
22-27
Patju Presley paints with the colourful confidence of someone who knows their spiritual place in the landscape. Here he depicts country associated with Wati Nyir Nyir (Lizard man Creation Line)...
Patju Presley paints with the colourful confidence of someone who knows their spiritual place in the landscape. Here he depicts country associated with Wati Nyir Nyir (Lizard man Creation Line) This is a Mens' narrative that cannot be elaborated on except to say Wati Nyir Nyir was speared near Watarru and crawled all the way to near Amata where a prominent rock bluff displays his face and beard. 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.