Patju Presley

Patju Presley paints with such a spiritual confidence, as someone who knows their place in the Creation, often singing the associated songs of particular sites whilst rhythmically placing his myriad of dots.”

— Spinifex Arts Project

The landscape shifts through the significant sites that Patju depicts, animating the associated Creation Lines: Wati Tjawalpa (Cresent nailed-tailed Wallaby Man), Wati Nyulu (Golden Bandicoot Man), Wati Tjuta (Many Men), Minyma Ngiyari (Thorny Devil Women), Yapanya  Wati Tjunku (Burrowing Bettong), Minyma Kutjara (Two Women) and Tipulnya that holds the Kalaya Tjuta Tjukurpa (Many Emu Creation Line).”

As these sliding tectonic plates of colour nudge, they shimmer and slide beneath each other in such unexpected and paradoxical ways that one is often left wondering if it was some kind of magic trick. ”

— Henry Skerrit

The characters that Patju depicts within a living, breathing landscape are the creation beings who shaped the immediate environment as they moved through it, leaving a moral narrative etched into the physical domain as testament to their power and presence.”

— Spinifex Arts Project

It seems the colour comes from within his being. He carries an innate optimism and gregarious positivity with a feeling that he quite possibly could 'have it all' and maybe he does”

— Brian Hallett