Acrylic
on Belgian linen
150 x 100 cm
Mylilly is the name of some important country for Patrick, far to the south west
of Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert. Mylilly is broad, spinifex plan country,
with low hills and sand dunes in certain areas. During the Tjukurrpa (Dreamtime)
this was also important travelling country for ancestral people. This painting
shows the tracks of different groups of people, from young men and women, through
to old men and old women as they travelled through here on their way to Kunyaroo.
PROVENANCE
Warlayirti Artists, Halls Creek,Catalogue Number 534/02
Patrick was born in Yalangerri near Jupiter Well circa 1943. He is a Pintubi
and Kukatja speaker who divides his time between Balgo and the Pintubi homeland
community of Kiwirrkurra to the south. Patrick is the younger brother of Brandy
Tjungarrayi and he walked in from the desert as an initated man, up the Canning
Stock route and into Old Balgo Mission. He worked building the stone houses and
the church at the new Balgo site. Patrick met and married Mirriam Olodoodi at
the church in Balgo. He first started painting in Balgo in approx 1985. He is
a senior Law man who looks after ceremony and country between Balgo Kiwirrkura
and Kintore. He is a proficient and well known painter who executes his works
with care and diligence. Patrick also paints for Papunya Tula Artists.
REPRESENTED
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Artbank
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