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Rock holes west of Kintore 2005

Accession No.
2005.256
Date Created
2005
Gallery location
On display in QAG Gallery 13
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
152 x 188cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
synthetic polymer paint
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
Place Created
Mount Liebig, NT
Credit Line
Purchased 2005

Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri depicts the Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) stories inherited from her father, Shorty Lungkata Tjungarrayi, one of the founders of the Western Desert painting movement.

Rockholes west of Kintore shows a group of large rockholes called Walukuritja, where Wentja’s father lived and hunted when she was a young girl. Water sources are critical to survival in the desert environment; Napaltjarri renders the rockholes in dominating, concentric circles of red ochre against fields of intricate, soft, dotted patterning (representing the desert landscape around Kintore), highlighting their importance to desert life.
 

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