Title
Doctor Who
2016
Artist
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Details
- Cultural origin
- Yankunytjatjara, Southern Desert region
- Date
- 2016
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 112.0 x 167.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Wendy Barron Bequest 2016
- Location
- South Building, upper level
- Accession number
- 373.2016
- Copyright
- © Tiger Yaltangki, courtesy Iwantja Arts/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Tiger Yaltangki
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About
Tiger Yaltangki grew up in Indulkana and has painted through Iwantja Arts in Indulkana for many years. Whimsy and fantasy inform his practice as he combines elements from his Anangu culture with science fiction and his love of music from ACDC and Hank Williams. Yaltangki’s works offer a unique image of contemporary life and explore the divergent influences that have shaped his world view.
Yaltangki makes known his love of science fiction television in ‘Doctor Who’ 2016. Populated by a cast of hybrid figures with animalistic features rendered in simple line-work, layered with an array of geometric shapes and graphic forms, this work evokes the wonder of possibility offered by the television series. It seems the perfect image of time travel and parallel universes as obscure elements and characters jostle for space in a multidimensional field. Imbued with a sense of curiosity and humor, Yaltangki’s cast exist in a dreamlike state where diverse influences mingle and coalesce.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
The National 2017: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Mar 2017–16 Jul 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Bruce Johnson-McLean, The national 2017: new Australian art, 'Tiger Yaltangki', pg. 140-41, Sydney, 2017, 140, 141 (colour illus.).
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