Ancestral Emu Being
Credits
- Ivan Namirrkki Artist
Format
- Drawing 44
Type of Work
- Finished work 5532
Media
- Fabric 25
Techniques
- painting 55
Dimensions
- Height
- 108cm
Ivan Namirrkkia is renowned bark painter and political proponent of the maintenance of ‘country. “The point of painting such work for the market is to expose viewers directly to the power of the Ancestral realm…Namirrkki has spoken of his love for country particularly the soothing qualities of living adjacent to its important waters. There is also a confidence and peace derived from living in one’s heartland that flows to all activities conducted there. An understanding of the importance of country provides the context for more developed understanding of Kuninjku concepts of personhood, sociality, power, and health, as well as local constructions of other frameworks of human experience such as aesthetic experience.”
