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dickie minyintiri
Kanyalakutjina
(
Euro tracks
) 2011
at 96, dickie minyintiri is the most senior
and authoritative man painting today in
central australia. his work expresses
the strength of his personal tjukurpa
and reflects many stories from his years
walking his country.
Kanyalakutjina
(
Euro tracks
) — acquired
with funds from ashby Utting through the
Queensland art gallery Foundation — was
the winner of the 2011 telstra national
aboriginal and torres strait islander
art award. the work depicts a creation
story from the area of minyintiri’s ngura
(birthplace). the painting follows a euro
(common wallaroo) dreaming track and
is an exemplar of the artist’s oeuvre;
minyintiri maps the course of epic journeys
onto his canvases by translating dance
steps commemorating these travels.
Kanyalakutjina
(
Euro tracks
) also traces
the paths of many other ancestral beings,
as well as the footsteps of the dancers
who commemorate these journeys through
ceremony.
Dickie Minyintiri
/ b.c.1915 / Pitjantjatjara people /
Kanyalakutjina
(
Euro tracks
) 2011 / Synthetic polymer paint on linen / 155 x 184 cm /
Purchased 2011 with funds from Ashby Utting through the Queensland
Art Gallery Foundation
Jennifer mills
What’s in a name?
2009–11
What’s in a name?
is a striking installation
comprising multiple drawings of reimagined
photographic images — where each subject
shares the name of the artist. Jennifer mills
has self-consciously selected and replicated
portraits of various ‘Jennifers’ sourced
online. however, her versions are warmer in
tone than the digital images they replicate,
and her hand is the means by which she has
reinstated humanity. en masse the work
subtly reflects on the representations and
projections of public, private, social and
fictional selves — those identities we tend
to inhabit via online personas.
Jennifer Mills
/ Australia b.1966 /
What’s inaname?
(detail) 2009–11 /
323 watercolour with pencil drawings / Purchased 2011. Queensland
Art Gallery Foundation / Photograph: Susannah Wimberley / Image
courtesy: The artist and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Judith wright
A wake
2011
A wake
suggests mystery, loss and sorrow,
and these themes represent keys to the
work’s genesis. this wake is staged — as
both memoriam and celebration — for a
lost child, the artist’s only daughter, who
died shortly after birth many years ago.
the mother of three sons, wright has never
stopped grieving for her loss, and coming
to terms with this experience has provided
the emotional impetus for some of her most
powerful works over several decades.
in this ghostly, yet impressive, troupe of
silent musicians, each member has a role
to play in sending a departed soul to the
afterlife. deliberately appealing to the rich
imagery of travelling performers, the work
is decidedly theatrical: gawky, glamorous,
even wry, these musicians represent a
fragile but resilient company.
Judith Wright
/ Australia b.1945 /
Awake
(detail) 2011 / Mixed media
with sound component / Purchased 2011. Queensland Art Gallery
Foundation
