Papa Tjukurpa Scarf Subject / Design critics and readers alike

critics and readers alike

through documented field trips

the catalogue includes a collectively authored text by the exhibition’s curators alongside two conversational texts by guest writers David Garneau and Kimberley Moulton

while Fanny famously challenged the false declaration of Indigenous Tasmanian extinction

Papa Tjukurpa Scarf Subject / Design critics and readers alikePapa Tjukurpa represents a pivotal work for Donegan. In this work, the artist boldly deviates from his signature style of fastidiously detailed dot work, in a breakthrough piece that is startlingly contemporary. Donegan paints the Papa Tjukurpa (Dog Dreaming) entrusted to him by his father. The artists loosely unfurling circles and spare infilling reveal the inky black depths of the canvas, speaking of a complex ontological system that marries