APY GALLERY MELBOURNE
Paintings from the Sand Dune COuntry
New Paintings from Kaltjiti Arts
Paintings from the Sand Dune Country
The country around Kaltjiti is dotted with sites of
significance to many of the artists that call sand dune country home. Some of
these sites are their birth sites, or their parents’ or grandparents’, country
on which songlines connect them to the major Tjukuṟpa of Kungkarangkalpa, the
Seven Sisters.
This vast sand dune country travels in all directions, as do
the songlines connecting them to country and their relatives to the north,
south, east and west – the countries of Kuli, Irintata, Tjuntjun, Mulga Bore
and beyond.
The selected works in this exhibition are no way intended to
fully represent the breadth and depth of painting currently being produced in
Kaltjiti at present. But we do hope to evoke a glimpse of the country so
familiar to the artists and illustrate the diversity of painterly approaches
currently being expressed by both our elder painters and our younger painters
alike.
Sand dune country is a living, culturally rich landscape
equally beautiful with its seasonal changes of colour, tones and spectacle. The
language of gestures, marks and stories are continually being reinterpretated
across the generations of Kaltjiti artist ; this ensures our practice enriches
the past whilst talking to the future.
Please enjoy our show. Palya .
