(AVAILABLE AT LEAPING LIZARDS GALLERY)
Acrylic on Canvas
1400mm x 1000mm
Stretched and ready to hang

Living in the Northern Territory, I often ask myself what makes a Territorian? Rather than a debate of ethnicity, or which lifestyle or material items define the term, I wanted to answer the question with a more primitive subject: The Perentie. The largest lizard in the country who is rough as guts, hard working for its food, quite attractive and gets along with the land.

The artistic people are represented by the pixelated patterns on the Perentie’s skin. The natural yellow dot work creating that pixelated effect translates into the traditional and modern dot works surrounding the center of Australia. Where the Perentie roams, the style adapts.  

The Perentie hasn’t got the exclusive symbol for the whole NT, however to the Central Australian, it very well should. Although it’s subjective, and I will most likely shift the symbolism to a different subject, this one deserves attention.