Wati Kutjarra (Two Men)
2003
Medium
wool, wire, human hair, raffia, gauze, found objects, tjanpi (spinifex), minarri (Woollybutt) (Eucalyptus sp.), wangurmu (Woollybutt) (Eucalyptus sp.), kurtanu (grass)
Measurements
(a) 84.0 × 57.8 × 57.6 cm
(b) 84.0 × 43.8 × 53.2 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Supporters and Patrons of Indigenous Art, 2003
© Kantjupayi Benson, courtesy of Tjanpi Desert Weavers, NPY Women's Council
Gallery location
Gallery 3
Ground Level, NGV Australia
About this work
Kanytjupayi Benson’s handwoven figurative works are represenative of her Tjukurpa, ancestral narratives that are connected to her Country and encoded with life lessons. Her work Bush banana represents a mother and her two children who were murdered by two unnoticed men after becoming distracted while collecting bush bananas. Wati kutjara tells of a group of men with special powers travelling from Perth to Blackstone and Docker River, where they met their end at the hands of an ancestral man.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Papulankutja, Western Australia
Accession Number
2003.667.a-b
Department
First Nations Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation