BODY MARKS, 1997
PRINCE OF WALES (MIDPUL)
synthetic polymer paint on linen
122.0 x 92.0 cm
inscribed verso: artist's name, title and date
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi (label attached verso)
Private collection, United Sates of America
'In taking up painting in 1995, Prince found a medium through which he could retain the essence of his active ceremonial life. His paintings have a musicality imparted by the lively staccato-effect of the dots and intermittent bars, as if to read like sheet music for an improvised symphony. Prince's uninhibited use of colour belies the origins of these designs which were passed on by his ancestors as marks on the bodies of ceremonial participants.'
Perkins, H., Tradition Today; Indigenous Art in Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004, p. 166