REV-59

Sophia Brown

Spinifex Arts Project

Title: Minyma Tjuta

Acrylic on canvas: 136 x 90 x 4cm

Sophia has painted the vast country that is Spinifex Lands, a diverse landscape of rock holes, sand dunes, breakaways and creeks. The desert has many stories to tell, and each year, as Sophia and her family travel out bush camping and hunting, new stories unfold. Today, it is a landscape that holds all the layers of the ancestral stories the Tjukurpa overlapped with stories created in the present. Tjukurpa is a deep and complex religious tradition generally referring to the energy of creation manifest in spirit beings, ancestors, animals, plants and geology. This Lore is secret and privy only to initiated men and women. Tjukurpa is past, present and future all at the same time, a force equally active today. It is a guide for living life well, explaining the relationships between people, plants, animals and the physical features of the land.