Artist: Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri | Title: Rock holes and country near the Olga's | Year: 2007 | Medium: acrylic on canvas | Dimensions: 46 x 91 cm
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Watiyawana Artists of Amunturrungu Cat No. 77-204
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Mount Liebig, NT
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Pitjantjatjara
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Pitjantjatjara people joined the Western Desert art movement during the 1990s, somewhat later than other tribes. They resisted the move to painting their sacred Dreaming Stories on canvas, for public display and sale. Perhaps this partly explains why Bill Whiskey developed his own interpretation of the ancient iconography, though keeping within the conventions of the contemporary ‘dot-painting’ style… Continue Reading
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Watiyawana Artists of Amunturrungu Cat No. 77-204
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Artist Profile:
COMMUNITY/ REGION
Mount Liebig, NT
LANGUAGE
Pitjantjatjara
BIOGRAPHY
Pitjantjatjara people joined the Western Desert art movement during the 1990s, somewhat later than other tribes. They resisted the move to painting their sacred Dreaming Stories on canvas, for public display and sale. Perhaps this partly explains why Bill Whiskey developed his own interpretation of the ancient iconography, though keeping within the conventions of the contemporary ‘dot-painting’ style… Continue Reading