Medium: Acrylic on canvas
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Paddy Fordham Wainburranga's paintings celebrate, among other things, the Mimih spirits who appeared in the mythical Dreamtime to give people laws and customs, reveal the secrets of medicine, and teach them art, song, dance and painting. These spirits are characterised by their extreme thinness, and the painter has emphasised this feature by highlighting their disproportionately long limbs. The thinness of the trunk is accentuated by the small size of the head. The spirit holds musical instruments decorated with feathers and is surrounded by birds on ritual objects and a kind of flute. The use of dotted lines is reminiscent of the body paintings done during ceremonies.
This painting is illustrated in the book 'Aboriginal Painting' on page 12.
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Some references:
Musée du Quai Branly, Musée des Confluences à Lyon, Musée d'Art Contemporain les Abattoirs à Toulouse, Musée des Arts d’Afrique et d’Asie de Vichy,
Musée de la Musique, Museum d'histoire naturelle de Lille, Musée de Rochefort, Fondation Electricité de France,
Fondation Colas, Banque Dexia ...
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