Wati Putinguru (The Man from the Bush)

Ian Rictor hails from Tjuntjutjara Community in the southern part of the Great Victoria Desert (Western and South Australia). The region is known as Spinifex Country; its people, the traditional owners, are the Pila Nguru, or ‘people of the Spinifex Country’

 

"On paper, the rawness of his mark-making is fully exposed, like a kulata (spear) roughly shaped before smoothing"  

Riley Adams Brown, 2025, The Rictors, exhibition catalogue, Outstation Gallery at George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens Events Centre, 7 to 15 August 2025.