1987/0149 Tingari dreaming at Walpunya

Tingari dreaming at Walpunya

Artist

Charlie Tararu TJUNGARRAYI
Indigenous
Birth:
c 1920
 in
Northern Territory
Death:
1999
 in
Northern Territory

Artwork

Title
Tingari dreaming at Walpunya
Date
1986
Medium/Material
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Dimensions
122.0 x 121.5 cm (Height x Width x Depth)
Credit line
Purchased 1987
State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession Number
1987/0149
Currently not on display

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The black area in the centre of the painting probably represents a cave. The Tingari Cycle contains information of a highly secret-sacred nature only revealed to senior initiated men. Little devils is given by artists painting subjects related to the Tingari Ancestors.

Curatorial insightThe artist was one of the original Papunya Tula artists who began the new painting movement in the early 1970s with the encouragement and support of Geoff Bardon. Tjungurrayi moved away from Papunya in the 1980s and lived at a small outstation on the traditional land for which he was the senior custodian. (Croft, Indigenous Art: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2001)

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