Tingari Cycle, 1998

synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

210 x 200 cm

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Provenance: Palya Art, NT Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
Exhibited: Big Country: Australian Aboriginal Art Coast to Coast', USA, Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seattle USA, June – September 2012 Cooee Art Gallery at Australian Galleries, Australian Galleries, Sydney, NSW, April 2016
Literature / Illustrated: Illustrated in The Dealer is the Devil; An Insiders History of the Aboriginal Art Trade, Adrian Newstead – Page 312
Artwork story: The Tingari Cycle is a secret song cycle sacred to initiated men. The Tingari are Dreamtime Beings who travelled across the landscape performing ceremonies to create and shape the country associated with Dreaming sites. The Tingari ancestors gathered at these sites for Maliera (initiation) ceremonies. The sites take the form of, and are located at, significant rockholes, sand hills, sacred mountains and water soakages in the western desert. Tingari may be poetically interpreted as song-line paintings relating to the songs (of the people) and creation stories (of places) in Pintupi mythology.

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b. c.1943

synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

210 x 200 cm

Price on application — enquire

Provenance: Palya Art, NT Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
Exhibited: Big Country: Australian Aboriginal Art Coast to Coast', USA, Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seattle USA, June – September 2012 Cooee Art Gallery at Australian Galleries, Australian Galleries, Sydney, NSW, April 2016
Literature / Illustrated: Illustrated in The Dealer is the Devil; An Insiders History of the Aboriginal Art Trade, Adrian Newstead – Page 312
Artwork story: The Tingari Cycle is a secret song cycle sacred to initiated men. The Tingari are Dreamtime Beings who travelled across the landscape performing ceremonies to create and shape the country associated with Dreaming sites. The Tingari ancestors gathered at these sites for Maliera (initiation) ceremonies. The sites take the form of, and are located at, significant rockholes, sand hills, sacred mountains and water soakages in the western desert. Tingari may be poetically interpreted as song-line paintings relating to the songs (of the people) and creation stories (of places) in Pintupi mythology.