Kaltukatjara

$450.00

When Aaron Pei Pie paints he slowly makes his way across the canvas stroke-by-stroke, culminating in highly textured representations of animals and landscape. He is known for his upside-down trees, floating rock holes, and disproportioned animals, which ask the audience to suspend reality in order to delve into his distinctive recollections of country.

Aaron Pei Pie lives in Kaltukatjara (Docker River) and has been painting since 2013. Since commencing painting with Kaltukatjara art centre at its inception in 2016, Aaron has developed a distinct signature style of naive, figurative depiction of the animals and landscape of the country surrounding Kaltukatjara community. The camel – or kamela – is a ubiquitous presence in his canvases, which are also often populated by other desert wildlife such as horses, rabbits, dingoes and malu (kangaroos). In recent years, Aaron has garnered attention for his contemporary and unique works, and his works have been exhibited in a number of significant shows including Revealed at the Fremantle Arts Centre, 2021