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The 77 kilometre road between my home in Mimili community and the neighbouring community of Indulkana is scattered with car wrecks (mutaka katalypa). I call them ‘graveyards in between’. Every car holds the stories of its owners and the passengers it once carried. Through the process of selecting certain cars, painting and illuminating them, I'm bringing back to life something long thought dead.

Robert Fielding, Graveyards In Between, 2017

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Robert Fielding (b1969) Western Arrente/ Yankunytjatjara Peoples

Ngurkantananma (Recognise) (2022)

exhibited: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

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Sacred Earth/Manta Miil Miilpa

‘Sacred Earth/Manta Miil Miilpa pays tribute to a place near Mimili where we come together; a place [Yankunytjatjara (Western Arrernte) peoples] receive, pass on and create knowledge. This work is old and new. Present but secretive. One must look back to move forward, always honouring our land and culture. Presently this world is full of digital images and screens – driven by technology built from resources taken from our land. My process is basic and free of machines and electricity. My process honours the land it is made on; the land it depicts.’

Photograph: Robert Fielding

2024 Bowness photography prize

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Nganampa Manta by Robert Fielding

Synthetic polymer paint on linen. Robert Fielding is a contemporary artist of Pakistani, Afghan, Western Arrente and Yankunytjatjara descent, lives in the Mimili community on Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands, in South Australia. Nganampa Manta is an exploration of the ongoing fight of his community to protect their land and maintain their culture, driven by the sacredness of the country.

Photograph: Robert Fielding

Hadley’s Art prize

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Robert Fielding Milkali Kutju 152 cm x 110 cm Language Western Arrernte/Yankunytjatjara/Afghan Mimili Maku Arts In Anangu culture the word Milkali blood is a very sensitive word and can be used offesively but in this painting Milkali kutju means one blood. It is about Indigenous and non Indigenous working alongside one another and learning and sharing two different cultures, Ngapartji - Ngapartji : 50-50.

It doesn’t matter what color or race we are, it’s about what’s below the surface: Milkali blood: that we are there for one another and that life is too short to allow grey scales to come between us as a culture.   We can learn from one another, and by moving forward, by closing the gaps and not blaming one another for our forefather’s actions, whether they were good or bad choices.

In this painting you will see a lot of colours, our mind will tell us what we only want to see but in this painting there are only two colours: black and white and below the surface, different shades of red. Whenever you look at this painting appreciate what we have, because it’s only for a short period of time.

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