Patjantja 2018

GIBSON, Bob - Creator

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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