DINNI KUNOTH KEMARRE & JOSIE KUNOTH PETYARRE BUSH FOOTY INTERPRETIVE GUIDE DINNI KUNOTH KEMARRE born 1954, Utopia Homestead, Northern Territory Anmatyerre people, Northern Territory JOSIE KUNOTH PETYARRE born 1959, Utopia Homestead, Northern Territory Anmatyerre people, Northern Territory ART AND SPORT COLLIDE I like to gather around the television with my sons and watch the AFL. Even better is going to see my sons play for the Apungalindum Eagles in our local bush football competition. Families come from all around to watch the bush football games – although not as many people as at the MCG. Dinni Kunoth Kemarre AFL football is so popular in outback communities that people drive for hours to see a game. Crossing country in cars and trucks, people from different communities, and sometimes from different language groups, come together for the sake of footy. These colourful community events are captured in these paintings by Josie Kunoth Petyarre and sculptures by Dinni Kunoth Kemarre. This husband-and-wife team lives in Apungalindum, on their traditional lands in Utopia, 250 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs in Central Australia. They are Anmatyerre people. Josie began working as an artist in the 1970s. She started Dinni Kunoth Kemarre, born 1954, Utopia Homestead, Northern working in batik but now works as a sculptor and a painter. Territory, Anmatyerre people, Northern Territory (left to right) Port Power Peter Burgoyne #7, 2007, Sydney Swans Adam In 2006 her husband Dinni began carving 3D football Goodes #37, 2010, Adelaide Crows Andrew McLeod #23, 2007, sculptures. Before becoming an artist, Dinni worked on cattle 2007–10, Apungalindum, Northern Territory, synthetic polymer paint stations, branding and mustering cattle. Since 2006 they have on bean tree (E. vespertilio), dimensions variable, Courtesy the artist both been making art that celebrates the role of Australian and Mossenson Galleries. Photo: Saul Steed Rules football in Central Australian communities. They have nine children and nine grandchildren. Together they go on long trips into the bush to find the bean MAKING tree (Erythrina vespertilio), from which they make sculptures Make a line drawing of your favourite sport. Sketch the event using hand tools such as small axes and rasps. The bean as though you are seeing it from above the ground. Try and tree wood is very light, which means it is easy to carve and capture the players and the spectators from this bird’s eye to colour. perspective. The Bush Footy paintings are painted on canvas with acrylic The sculpting technique used by Josie and Dinni is called a paint. Painted on the ground, the footy oval appears in the reductive sculpting technique; that is, the works of art are centre as the focal point from which all of the action radiates. made by taking away (or reducing) the materials. Write a list of materials that could be used to make a sculpture in this RESPONDING way. Select your favourite and make a sculpture that captures your favourite person or animal. See how many different things you can identify in one of the Bush Footy paintings by Josie. Make a list of everything One of the series of sculptures is called Dinni’s Dream Team. you can see. Can you tell who is winning the game? If you could assemble a dream team for your favourite sport, who would be in it? Design the sports uniform that your How many of the AFL teams can you recognise? Dinni and dream team would wear. Josie’s home team is the Apungalindum Eagles. The names of some of the other teams that play at Utopia are the Imagine being invited to visit Dinni and Josie’s home in Soapy Bore Crows, Mulga Bore Magpies, Arlparra Dockers, Apungalindum. If you could make a video of this experience Arnkewenyerra Swans and the Delmore Demons. Create of meeting the artists, what would it look like? Make a your own fantasy team name. What animal or supernatural storyboard where you sequence the things that you would mascot would you choose? capture on film. Dinni’s sculptures and Josie’s paintings are very colourful, reflecting the energy and fun of their subject matter. Research other artists, subjects and techniques from Utopia. Present your research to the class and compare your findings. Dinni Kunoth Kemarre, born 1954, Utopia Homestead, Northern Territory, Anmatyerre people, Northern Territory Arlparra Sports Weekend 2014, Apungalindum, Northern Territory, synthetic polymer paint on linen, 120.0 x 182.0 cm Courtesy the artist and Mossenson Galleries. Photo: Saul Steed GLOSSARY RELATED WORKS IN THE COLLECTION 3D: works of art with depth, as well as height and width, such HERMANNSBURG POTTERS, Hermannsburg, Northern as sculpture and installation Territory, Australia Hayley COULTHARD, Australia, 1967, Arrernte people, craft: an intellectual and physical activity where artists explore Northern Territory, Football culture – St Kilda versus the materials and processes to produce unique objects for Collingwood, 2012, Hermannsburg, Northern Territory. the purposes of: experimentation with form or function; http://bit.ly/1KTP0rW exhibition; production; and personal or community need. Rona Panangka RUBUNTJA, Rona Panangka, Australia, 1970, Aboriginal cultures draw no distinction between art and Arrernte people, Northern Territory, Football culture – craft and, similarly, contemporary culture values the interplay Adelaide Crows versus Geelong Cats 2012, Hermannsburg, between art/craft, design/craft, the art/designer or the Northern Territory. http://bit.ly/1O9pnKL design/maker. The crafted and handmade sit alongside the manufactured design object as part of historical, national and IWANTJA ARTS & CRAFTS ABORIGINAL cultural identities. CORPORATION, South Australia, Australia Mary Tjapukula BRUMBY, Australia, 1958, Pitjantjatjara design principles: accepted conventions associated with people, South Australia, Toyota Dreaming 2004, Indulkana, organising design elements and can include unity, balance, South Australia. http://bit.ly/1QMaLyt hierarchy, scale, proportion, emphasis, similarity and contrast materials: physical resources, equipment including the technologies and information used to make a work of art technical skills: combination of skills in control, accuracy, alignment, strength, balance and coordination in an art form. These develop with practice. DINNI KUNOTH KEMARRE & JOSIE KUNOTH PETYARRE BUSH FOOTY Art Gallery of South Australia North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000 Tel 61 8 8207 7000 www.artgallery.sa.gov.au www.tarnanthi.com.au TARNANTHI | Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art 8 October 2015 – 10 January 2016 Open daily 10am – 5pm, FREE ENTRY Information and quotes have been derived from the accompanying Dinni Kunoth Kemarre, born 1954, Utopia Homestead, Northern TARNANTHI exhibition catalogue. Information and hyperlinks correct Territory, Anmatyerre people, Northern Territory, Dinni’s Dream Team at time of print. 2009, Apungalindum, Northern Territory, synthetic polymer paint on Writer: Lisa Slade bean tree (Erythrina vespertilio), dimensions variable, Image courtesy Editor: Penelope Curtin the artist and Mossenson Galleries. Design: Sandra Elms Design Cover image: Josie Kunoth Petyarre, born 1959, Utopia Homestead, Art Gallery of South Australia staff Mimi Crowe, Nici Cumpston, Northern Territory, Anmatyerre people, Northern Territory Tracey Dall, Elle Freak, Laura Masters, Ryan Sims and Lisa Slade, and Football Alice Springs 2010, Apungalindum, Northern Territory DECD Education Manager Mark Fischer, assisted in the development synthetic polymer paint on linen, 152.0 x 151.0 cm, Courtesy the artist of this resource. and Mossenson Galleries. Photo: Saul Steed Warning: Members of Aboriginal communities are respectfully advised that some of the people mentioned in writing or depicted in photographs within this resource have passed away. All such mentions and photographs in this resource are with permission. Dufour, Gary 2008, ‘Dinni Kunoth Kemarre’, Art Gallery Note to the reader: Unless otherwise noted, all Aboriginal and Torres of Western Australia. http://bit.ly/1FGWBhO Strait Islander words mentioned in this resource are spelled as advised by the relevant cultural authority. Approval for use of ‘Tarnanthi’ has Dufour, Gary 2008, ‘Josie Kunoth Petyarre’, Art Gallery been granted by Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi. of Western Australia. http://bit.ly/1MIhDMx Skerritt, Henry F.; ‘Preview: Josie Kunoth Petyarre: Sugarbags’, Artist Profile Magazine, Issue 15, May 2011, pp. 122–123. RESOURCES http://bit.ly/1OIeyza Closer Productions 2015, Dinni Kunoth Kemarre and Josie Perkins, Hetti 2010, Art + soul: a journey into the world Kunoth Petyarre (video portrait, 04’03”), Art Gallery of South of Aboriginal Art, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne. Australia, Adelaide. http://bit.ly/1FGRONh http://bit.ly/1KKgnYr Cumpston, Nici 2015, TARNANTHI exhibition catalogue, Art + Soul study guide. http://bit.ly/1jxOUjN Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. http://bit.ly/1iKlcrd Based on the television series about contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art; a DVD of is also available. Cumpston, Nici (with Barry Patton) 2010, Desert Country, http://bit.ly/1O74os0 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. http://bit.ly/1iKlcrd Desert Country Education Resource. http://bit.ly/1FJGKi8 The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) promotes the knowledge and Mossenson Galleries, ‘Josie Kunoth Petyarre’ (artist profile). understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island cultures, http://bit.ly/1O9v1wv traditions, languages and stories, past and present. 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