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Uluru (Ayers Rock)by Vincent ForresterThis bold iconic artwork represents Uluru, an significant landmark for Australia. Uluru is sacred to the Anangu people, the Aboriginal people of the area. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings. Uluru is listed as a World Heritage Site. Uluru was built up during the Dream-time creation period by two boys who played in the mud after rain. When they had finished their game they travelled south to Wiputa. Fighting together, the two boys made their way to the table topped Mount Conner, on top of which their bodies are preserved as boulders. |
ArtistVincent Forrester is a Luritja/Aranda man born in Alice Springs. He lived on a cattle station (Angus Downs) in a traditional environment, where he was influenced by his forefathers. Today, he still practices his responsibilities and rituals and now takes his place as a teacher of traditional law to young men. Vincent was instrumental in setting up Central Land Council, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, Aboriginal Legal Services, Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) and its television station Imparja. Growing up as a stockman and stationhand, Vincent came to know his country intimately. His grandfather's showed him the landscape and told him the stories, associated with his country and Alice Springs, where he became the Aboriginal historian of the area. His grandmother's showed him bush foods and bush medicine for both Luritja and Aranda country. It was in his teens when working as a cattleman, that the tourism industry was in its infancy and Vincent began working as a tour guide. He later became a very popular guide at Kings Canyon, a ranger at Uluru/Kata Juta National Park and later a specialist guide at Alice Springs Desert Park. He was also heavily involved in Territory and National politics, as the chairman of the National Aboriginal Conference (the precursor to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission) where he worked as an Indigenous advisor to three Australian Prime Ministers - Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser and Bob Hawke - was a founding member of the Makarrata treaty committee (under the Fraser Government), the Australian member for the World Council of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva, worked with UNFSCO in Paris for the return of sacred objects to traditional Australian Indigenous owners. Vincent Forrester's spiritual connection to the land, his identity as a story teller and tour guide, has led to the artistic endeavour comprising his most recent set of paintings. Vincent's art represents a narrative and spiritual legacy to his seven children and seven grandchildren. |
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