Peter Taylor Tjutjatja feature

Uluru by Peter Taylor Tjutjatja

Central Art is honoured to present a special exhibition celebrating the water colour landscape paintings by Peter Taylor Tjutjataja.Peter Taylor follows an unbroken tradition of Hermansburg watercolours that goes back more than six decades, when Albert Namatjira became one of the most sought after Australian artists in Australia in the mid 20th Century.Peter told me that when he was a young child at Hermansburg he would sit and watch Uncle Albert paint and he recalls that Natamjira said to him ‘you’ll be an artists too one day’’, says Sabine Haider, Director of Central Art.The recent demand for acrylic paintings from the Central and Western Desert has overshadowed the Indigenous water colour artists, but they still play a major role in contemporary Aboriginal art.These works hold a very special interest for me because of the masterful way Peter can capture the beauty and the soul of his country. I have never met an artist who is so in love with his homeland and he produces his very best works when he is out bush, says Haider.Peter’s works are deeply rooted in his Indigenous culture. He is an Arrernte man with a deep respect and affinity for his ancestral country and he is able to capture with his skill and unique knowledge, the beauty and the spirituality of the sacred ground in the McDonnell Ranges.His use of colour, particularly the pinks and purples depict the landscape in a way that only one intimately related to the location can capture and present to the rest of us the astonishing and changing beauty of this desert region.Peter is one of a very few living Aboriginal artists who paints with such skill and this exhibition offers lovers of watercolours a rare opportunity to acquire works which may be some of the last of this Namatjira tradition.Peter Taylor’s works have always been coveted and he was commissioned by HRH Princess Anne to produce five works. His works have been exhibited in is represented in the Kelton Foundation Santa Monica, collections in Muncich, the USA and Australia and he has been exhibited in the Donal Kahn Lowe Art Museum, USA, the University of Miami Dreamings exhibition and the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich.View the Peter Taylor Tjutjatja feature » View the Peter Taylor Tjutjatja feature slideshow »

This feature runs from Monday April 21 until Monday May 26 2008.

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