The Stockman from P.P.F (Past-Present-Future)

In Vincent Namatjira's Foyer Wall Commission titled "P.P.F. (Past-Present-Future)", the Western Aranda artist has assembled 7 figures significant to his life and practice in a large-scale ‘heroes narrative’. The work is semi-autobiographical – the artist states that each of the men represented on the wall have inspired him, and remind him of who he is.

The painting includes an image of a stockman on a horse. Aboriginal stockmen across Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory were the backbone of the late 19th and early 20th-century pastoral movement and worked without pay in difficult conditions to herd livestock.