Artist

Tommy Watson

Location

Irrunytju Arts

Language Groups

Pitjantjatjara

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Tommy Watson
Pitjantjatjara born c. 1935
Awilyulu 2003
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
199.0 x 147.5 cm
Presented through the NGV Foundation by Susan and Michael Hamson, Fellow and through the National Gallery Women's Association, Governor, 2003
2003.675
© Tommy Watson, courtesy of Irrunytju Arts

"This is nayuku ngura (my country). There are a lot of water snakes at this place - wanapi pirni (snakes), the other side of Piwari. This is a big story - this country.

At the top of my painting are all the sandhills. All the little snakes everywhere. That country at the side of the snakes (right) is special minima (women's) country, Waltjitjata way."
Tommy Watson, 2002