Pitjantjatjara painter Noli Rictor, from one of Australia’s most remote Aboriginal communities, has won the 2024 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
Pitjantjatjara artist Noli Rictor, whose family lived in Western Australia’s Great Victoria Desert and didn’t have any contact with the outside world until 1986, has scooped the nation’s richest and most prestigious Indigenous art competition.
“Winning has made me really happy and really proud of my country and practice,” he said on Friday through an interpreter from the Spinifex Arts Project.“I intend to buy a new car with the money to go hunting for red kangaroo, and I also want to buy a TV, although I’m nervous about being on the TV for the first time now,” he said.
“I saw how much change it can bring to the Pila Nguru,” said Rictor, who spent five weeks on his winning work which depicts the dunes, rocks and waterholes he knows intimately from his childhood hunting there.“There’s water and plenty of food there when you know where to look for it,” he said of the homeland he has reimagined on canvas.
“My dad told me people coughed a lot and had open wounds,” the 40-year-old Adelaide-based artist said.
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