Title
Ku' Piikalith
2021
Artist
Leo Namponan
Australia
1973 –
Language groups: Wik-Mungkan, West Cape region, Wik-Alken, West Cape region, Wik-Ngathan, West Cape region
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Aurukun
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Cape York
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Queensland
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Australia
- Date
- 2021
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- natural pigments with binders on milkwood
- Dimensions
- 33.0 x 64.0 x 13.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Commissioned with funds provided by the Aboriginal Art Collection Benefactors 2021
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 227.2022
- Copyright
- © Leo Namponan
- Artist information
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Leo Namponan
Works in the collection
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About
Art Centre documentation for this work states:
"Piikalith is a Story Place on our Country. Before time, there was a big crocodile living in the Kirk river at this particular place. One day, one of our ancestors, a crippled man, was catching plenty of fish with his bare hands there. He showed no fear for that croc. He was grabbing lots of barramundi with his bare hands and throwing them onto the river bank. He came across that big crocodile and grabbed onto his tail and threw it onto the land. He told his sons and daughters to catch that croc but it was too big for them. That’s a really old story that my father used to tell me around the camp fire at night time." -
Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
SMP Interstitials, Art Gallery of New South Wales, North Building, Sydney, 03 Dec 2022–01 Sep 2023
Yiribana Gallery: opening collection display, Art Gallery of New South Wales, North Building, Sydney, 03 Dec 2022–29 May 2023