03.03.08

by Sonja

The Power of Place: Paintings and Sculpture from the Eastern Desert at Tandanya, Adelaide

Art Article

Rainbow Dreaming, Lucky Kngwarreye Morton, 118 x 119, Acrylic on Belgium Linen (Detail)

A celebration of Land - a vibrant spiritual landscape - seen through the art of the Anmatyarr and Alyawarr people of the Eastern Desert region, NT.

Power of Place includes exciting new iconographic and geometric ceremonial paintings and artifacts from the Elders - Cowboy Louie Pwerle, Freddy Kngwarreye Jones, Charlie Petyarre Jones, Alec Peterson and Sandy Pitjara Hunter - honouring the ancient and enduring ideology of the Dreaming (Altyerre).

Song, dance, body and story – the media of the Women’s Law - are explored in the paintings from the Bush Women –Kathleen Ngala, Susan Pitjara Hunter, Joy Kngwarreye Jones, Sarah Kngwarrye Morton, Dolly Petyarre Mills, Angeline Pwerle Ngala, Annie Pitjara Hunter.