Artist:Wenten Rubunija
Area: Alice Springs
Language:Arrernte

Title: Honey Ant Dreaming
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 35 x 23″

Description:
The painting is personally signed on the back ”Wenten Rubuntja”
Original Aboriginal art gallery label on back with artist Name and price.

COA included

A beautiful orignal Aboriginal painting by well listed Australian Aboriginal artist Wenten (Wenton) Rubuntja (1926-2005). Highly sought after investment art work and very collectible artist.

Wenten Rubuntja’s paintings all had hidden meanings and at the same time continuous themes that documented both his career and his culture. His water colors had specific Dreamtime connections and his dot paintings had contemporary meaning as well as the traditional. He was a thinking man.

Wenten Rubuntja, an Arrente person, Living in Alice Springs, grew up at Telegraphy Station, worked as a timber cutter and drover at stations across Central Australia. Albert Namatjira was his father’s cousin and call himself Wenten’s uncle, he taught Wenten Rubuntja to paint in response to the boy’s interest.

He painted both Hermannsburg landscape watercolors and traditional Aboriginal dot paintings, his style is very disctive, pointed linear forms.

Wenten was chairman of Central Australia Land Council through the 80s, a leader of the Arrente Community.