KATHLEEN PETYARRE - MY COUNTRY - SANDHILLS
KATHLEEN PETYARRE
MY COUNTRY - SANDHILLS, 1997
122 x 122 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
REGION
Utopia, NT
PROVENANCE
Gallerie Australis, SA Cat No. GAKP0797096
Private Collection, NSW
Signed verso 'Kathleen Pitjara'
STORY
This represents an aerial view composition of Kathleen Petyarre’s sacred Dreaming site of the Mountain Devil Lizard in the vicinity of Mosquito Bore on Utopia Station .It is here at this site that the men and women of the eastern Anmatyerre language conduct important secret and sacred initiation ceremonies.This Dreaming site is situated in the artist’s father’s country and the general locality is identified by a group of sand-hills.The painting portrays the area scattered with seeds, summer bush flowers and spinifex grasses.
The sand-hills represents a sacred Women’s Dreaming site associated with the green pea (antweth).
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