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Alyape (Palm Valley), NT

Palm Tree

These Palm Trees have been here since the pre historic times. The story for this painting is that the sparks from the fire had bounce across these places that come from family dreamings. It started in the area of Rubuntja family up north, then come over towards the Pareroultja side and finally landed where Palm Valley is. It is an important story and represents a lot of family that are a prat of this area. The sparks of the fire – Ura thaarta bounced from place to place.  

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Name: Hubert Pareroultja

Language: Luritja, Western Aranda

Community: Ntaria

Biography:

HUBERT PAREROULTJA is a senior Western Aranda-Luritja man who lives in his homeland, Kulpitharra / Luntharra outstation west of Hermannsburg (Ntaria).

Hubert has been painting landscape watercolours since he was a young boy thus following in the footsteps of his father Reuben Pareroultja and Uncles Otto and Edwin Pareroultja. Reuben, Otto and Edwin were part of the original Hermannsburg School watercolour movement and were all acclaimed artists.

When Hubert was a kid he watched the original Hermannsburg School watercolour artist Albert Namatjira and his father and uncles as they painted. Hubert paints many of the same locations that Namatjira and the Pareroultja brothers painted in particular Hermannsburg, Mt Sonder/Rutjipma and James Range. Hubert lives and works in the Western MacDonnell Ranges to this day. His work is displayed in many important collections.

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