YANNIMA TOMMY WATSON - UNTITLED

 YANNIMA TOMMY WATSON
UNTITLED,  2015
59 x 74.5 cm
synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen
 
PROVENANCE
Wanarn, WA
Yanda, NTPrivate Collection, VicCooee Art Gallery, NSW 
 
STORY
Tommy Watson depicted the country of his birth not far from Kata Juta and Uluru. According to the creation story fo this area a major battle took place between the White Cockatoo and the Eagle, during which white feathers were scattered about and the landscape became indented by the entangled protagonists crashing to the ground several times. Here we see underground water in the form of the subterranean streams that filled these depressions with water and the circular amphitheatre that was created by the sweep of wings. In keeping with the depiction of Dreaming stories throughout the Western Desert, the landscape is rendered  sacred and numinous through the actions of mythic creator beings during it formation.
 
EXHIBITED
Sydney Contemporary 2019, Booth A11, September 2019, Carriage Works Splash of Colour, October 2019, Cooee Art Paddington