Word: pintupi
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...also increasingly evident that the Western Desert artists being targeted are the least experienced of all in the ways of the white world. As Philip Batty's current exhibition "Colliding Worlds" dramatically shows, the last Pintupi tribes emerged from the desert as recently as 1984. "They were still coming out of the bush when I was there," he recalls. While that lack of Western contact brought a remarkably fresh quality to their painting, it didn't equip them well for the art market. "You've got all sorts of traditional beliefs and values basically slamming head-on into Western economics...
...receded from her remote community. "It's not only a cross-nation collaboration," says Perkins. "It's inter-cultural as well, and then also between the strands of architecture, curatorship and the arts." Not to mention language. English and French were easy compared to Kuninjku, Gumatj, Gija, Pitjantjatjara, Pintupi, Wiradjuri and Waanyi, all of which buttress this cross-cultural cathedral...
...this more apparent than at Papunya, 250 dirt kilometers west of Alice Springs. Around the same time as the Yirrkala people were presenting their bark petition to parliament, hundreds of desert nomads were gathering at the settlement as part of the government's assimilation policy. Far from their Pintupi, Arrernte, Warlpiri and Luritja homelands, the Papunya mob were caught in "the agony of exile," Perkins has written. Driving his VW into town in 1971, Sydney art teacher Geoffrey Bardon wasn't thinking of starting a revolution. But by encouraging the town's senior men to paint their ceremonial sand designs...
...model elsewhere in the state. One of the first patients through was Turkey Tolson's widow, Mary, who was well enough to join in women's business at Kintore this month, dancing at ceremony and collecting bush tomatoes. Next, Toyne wants to target the younger generation of Pintupi people with preventive measures, looking at better immunization, hygiene and diet. In the meantime, says Tim Kingender, "at least the dialysis center will give a window of time in which these problems can be addressed...
...auction was organized for the close of the show, with 35 Aboriginal works donated by collectors, artists and dealers. Central were four large new collaborative paintings by the men and women of Kintore and Kiwirrkura, a Pintupi settlement 200 km to the west, across the West Australian border. These came together as quickly and spontaneously as the Papunya movement had 20 years earlier. "We just threw the paints out," recalls Sweeney, "and they went for it." So, too, did bidders on the auction night, including businessman Kerry Stokes, who paid $A300,000 for the Kiwirrkura men's painting...