This painting is Kapi (waterhole) dreaming. All the women looking around for water, rainy time, looking for rock holes. Sometimes they digging for water in the creeks. Water running down, they make a road. Rainy time, we go out swimming and hunting kangaroo too. In this painting the women are depicted by the U shape and their digging stick is placed beside them. the concentric circles represent a rock hole or waterhole.
Name: Patricia Robinson
Language: Pitjantjatjara, Warlpiri, Yankunytjatjara
Biography:
Patricia Robinson was born in Adelaide. Her mother was from Port Augusta, and her father was a Pitjantjatjara man whose family live in Apatula (Finke). Patricia lost her parents young, and was raised by her father's mother, first in Finke, and then Alice Springs. She attended Yirara College, and is now an integral part of Hidden Valley Town Camp. Her partner is from Yuendumu. Patricia originally worked as a painter and a weaver. Since 2015, Patricia has concentrated on print making and silk screening. Patricia works between Hidden Valley Community Centre, where she leads arts activities, and Tangentyere Artists, where staff receive training and professional development opportunities.
Patricia has been one of the primary creative and cultural forces behind the highly successful hand-screenprinted artworks the Hidden Valley Artists have released biannually, since 2015.
Patricia has participated in the creation of two major murals - one at the Eastside IGA (2015), a collaboration between Province of Sydney, as Artists in Residence at Watch This Space Artists Run Initiative, and Tangentyere Artists, both of Alice Springs. The other mural - Hidden Valley Community Centre (2016) was painted on the interior of the Community Centre located at Hidden Valley Town Camp.
Hidden Valley Artists is a program that was started by families from Hidden Valley Town Camp to challenge social and economic disenfranchisement and disadvantage through recreational and therapeutic activities that also build individual and community economic capacity.
Tangentyere Artists is the central provider of arts services to Town Camp residents through Tangentyere Council. The Art Centre also supports development of arts activities and arts programs operating through Town Camp Community Centres and other Tangentyere Council programs.
No seatbelt Policeman stop the car policeman said what your name my name is Maureen. Policeman said your sitting no belt, you get $500 fine. Dimensions: 560 x 565 mm
Family Bush Trip Family stopping, on their way back to Alice Springs, make a fire and cook some lunch. Dimensions: 305 x 305 mm
