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Patjantja 2018

Artwork Patjantja this artwork made of Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, created in 2018-01-01
Accession No.
2018.396
Date Created
2018
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
147.3 x 177.8cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
synthetic polymer paint
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Credit Line
Purchased 2018. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

In this painting, Bob Gibson has created one of his characteristic ‘mind-map’ landscapes of Patjantja, an important ancestral site south-west of Wilkinkara (Lake Mackay). The site is associated with two snakes who, in the Dreaming, were escorted by two men on a journey north from Karrkurinkitja, near Lake MacDonald, leaving behind burrows that filled with water.

Gibson's visualisation incorporates his trademark use of irregular squares and rectangles. These motifs can be read as representing some of the sites between Lake MacDonald and Lake Mackay — the Western Desert's great lakes — punctuated by permanent rockholes and soakages.

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Exhibitions featuring this object

Patrick Tjungurrayi / Pintupi/Kukatja people / Australia c.1940–2017 / Untitled (Ngaru) (detail) 2009 / Purchased 2020. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / © Estate of Patrick Tjungurrayi/Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency

‘North by North-West’

Feb 2023 - Sep 2024

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