Lot 11
Boxer Milner Tjampitjin(born circa 1935)Oolaign, 2000
24 March 2013, 14:00 AEDT
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary ArtSold for AU$19,520 inc. premium
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Boxer Milner Tjampitjin (born circa 1935)
Oolaign, 2000
bears artist's name, Warlayirti Artists catalogue number 622/00 and Alcaston Gallery catalogue number AK6242 on the reverse and artist's name, title, date, medium, size and location on Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal Art exhibition label on the reverse
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
150 x 100cm (59 1/16 x 39 3/8in).
bears artist's name, Warlayirti Artists catalogue number 622/00 and Alcaston Gallery catalogue number AK6242 on the reverse and artist's name, title, date, medium, size and location on Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal Art exhibition label on the reverse
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
150 x 100cm (59 1/16 x 39 3/8in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE:
Painted at Billiluna, Western Australia
Warlayirti Artists, Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills), Western Australia
Purchased from Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne in April 2003
The Laverty Collection, Sydney
EXHIBITED:
Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal Art, touring regional Spain, 1 March - 31 December 2001; Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, 4 - 26 April 2002
Paintings from Remote Communities: Indigenous Australian Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, 15 December 2007 - 24 February 2008; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, 5 July - 31 August 2008
LITERATURE:
Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal Art, exh. cat, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, cat. no. 21, p.32 (illus.)
Colin Laverty and Elizabeth Laverty et al., Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia's Remote Aboriginal Communities - the collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 2008, p.146 (illus.)
The constant subject of Boxer Milner's art is Purkitji
(Sturt Creek) that flows through Jaru country into the
Great Sandy Desert. He was born on the banks of the
creek and spent most of his adult life working in the
region as a stockman. In his paintings Milner brings to
life his intimate knowledge of the country as it changes
with the seasons and the rains which sculpt the landscape
as water eddies and flows across the ground. The tactile
surfaces of his paintings are built in dots of impasto that
intimate the changing topography of the place.
Oolaign is the site associated with the Tingari ancestors
who gave people law, and whose teachings inform
young initiates in the important men's rituals that are
held at this place. In this painting, Oolaign is depicted
in the early stages of the wet season when rain falls into
various catchment areas where water of varying colours
flows into along tributaries into the main channels
of Sturt Creek. The flow of water may be read as a
metaphor for the transition of boys into men and the
acquisition of ancestral knowledge.
Wally Caruana
This painting is sold with accompanying Warlayirti Artists documentation.