Artists use this title when they are depicting their Country. It might be a representation of a particular place or of different aspects of that area. The artist uses a combination of colour and design to indicate variations in the landscape. Inspiration is drawn from all elements of Country and might include bush tucker, water holes, meeting places, rock formation, birds or animals.
Name: Venetta Lionel
Language: Pitjantjatjara
Community: Pukatja
Biography:
Vennita is the fourth generation of Lionel women to work as artists at Ernabella Arts. Her great-grandmother is the very senior artists Pantjiti Lionel, her grandmother the 2015 NATSIAA finalist Yurpiya Lionel and her mother the 2016 NATSIAA finalist Rachael Mipantjiti Lionel. Venita often paints collaboratively with her mother Rachael.
Vennita started painting at the art centre in 2014 and then participated in ceramics works in 2015 and 2016.
In 2016 Vennita participated in her first exhibition Point of difference - Desert to the Sea at Artitja Gallery in Freemantle, WA.
In 2019 Vennita exhibited in An Idea Needing to be Made: Contemporary Ceramics at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Wanapari - in a line, following one another at the Jam Factory and Ernabella Arts: Small Ceramics at Aboriginal Contemporary.
Status: Stock Handmade ceramic tile by Ernabella Artists Size 15 x 15cm Due to the handmade nature, slight size variations may occur
Status: Stock Punu (wood carving) Punu are wood carvings by Anangu (Central and Western Desert Aboriginal people), they are hand carved and decorated with walka, patterns burnt into the wood with heated wire.