Acrylic on Belgian linen
180 x 120 cm
Patrick has painted the travels of an ancestral snake in the Tjukurrpa (Dreamtime).
This snake, a cheeky or poisonous slim brown snake, made the epic journey from
Lake Mackay to Nynmi rockhole. Patrick has depicted the snake with its ribs
projecting out as it writhes from side to side. The patterning on either side
of the snake is a mapping of the soakwaters and rockholes in the region. This
landscape is dominated by the tali or sand dunes of the Great Sandy Desert.
PROVENANCE
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia, painted 2001,
Catalogue number 1066/01
Patrick was born in Yalangerri near Jupiter Well. He is a Pintupi and Kukatja
speaker who divides his time between Balgo and the Pintupi homeland community
of Kiwirrkura to the south. Patrick is the younger brother of Brandy Tjungurrayi.
Patrick walked in from the desert as an initiated 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. He met and married Mirriam Olodoodi (Lucy Yukenbari’s
sister) at the church in Balgo. He first started painting in Balgo in approximately
1985. He is a senior Law Man who looks after ceremony and country between Balgo,
Kiwirrkura and Kintore.
REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Artbank
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