Patricia Baker Tunkin #178N

$495

artist – Patricia Baker Tunkin

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community – Kanpi, South Australia

title: Kalinya (Emu Dreaming)

year painted: 2022

dimensions: 46 x 30cm
medium: Acrylic on canvas
code: 178N

stretched: no

This artwork can be viewed at our Noosa gallery.

about this painting:  Patricia paints stories associated with her grandfather’s dreamings. Her designs contain many of the caves and sacred rock holes in the region. These sites remain as important ceremony sites in the Pitjantjara lands and ceremonies are still performed here today, with the knowledge of this land handed down from one generation to the next. Fresh water, food, medicine and shelter can be found here. Bush food can be collected and hunted around the area and this forms part of the knowledge that is passed on here.

Her artwork depicts the ceremony sites associated with the artists country. These locations are an important source of freshwater for the people of the APY Lands. The celebration of these sites is in recognition of ancestral activities referred to as “tjukurrpa”. The series of concentric circles represent significant locations used for ceremony sites. The overlay patterns of the painting represent the physical features of the landscape. This includes the sand-hill country (tali) and the rocky outcrops (puli) creek beds and soaks as well as bush tucker that is hunted and collected whilst moving from one water source to the next.