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Dan Jones

Dan Jones
Title
Dan Jones
Dimensions
120 × 90 cm
Region
Central Desert
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Provenance and context of painting

* Artist: Dan Jones
* Skin name: Kngwarreye
* Language: Alyawarr
* Country/Dreaming: Tjukapaye (near Utopia)
* Title: Loading Truck to Utopia
* Date: 20 June 2008
* Medium: Acrylic on canvas
* Size: 120 × 90 cm
* Art centre: Tangentyere Artists, Alice Springs
* Provenance: Original Tangentyere Artists Certificate of Authenticity
* Context: Depicts the loading truck connecting Utopia with Alice Springs, transporting food, mail and passengers and sometimes providing transport for school children.
* Artist’s connection: The certificate records Jones’s personal memories of travelling on the truck and its importance to community life.

A story of the new

Dan Jones is an Alyawarr artist whose certificate records his skin name as Kngwarreye and his association with Tjukapaye, near Utopia.
In this painting, Jones records an aspect of everyday Aboriginal community life from personal experience. His account accompanying the work describes travelling on the loading truck and the people, families and communities who depended upon it.

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One Phoenix Arts acknowledges the Larrakia people as the Traditional Owners of the land on which our gallery stands, and pays respect to Elders past and present. We acknowledge the artists and their communities across the Northern Territory, the Kimberley and the deserts, who hold the stories in these works.