The Hunter & Gatherer
$500.00
The Hunter & Gatherer shows aspects of the life of coastal Palawa community, who took the fish from the sea and occasionally hunted the kangaroo inland. The work depicts Uncle Nick’s great unity with nature. Spirals are typical of Palawa mark-making and have been found carved into rocks by the sea, holding great spiritual significance. The artist uses the imagery of the Tasmanian Tiger to symbolise the extinction of not only the animal itself, but many Palawa cultural histories.
Uncle Nick Kupetsky is a Palawa Kani man from central Lutruwita Tasmania and is a lifelong creative practitioner. Uncle Nick’s multi-media practice explores the deep and dark ancestral histories of Palawa country, as well as the artist’s own private moments of cultural discovery and revelation. When painting Country, Uncle Nick takes a mental image of places that feel energetic and vibrate with history. He returns to the memory over time, forming feeling and truth, before putting it onto canvas.
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