Click to enlarge- Region
- Western Desert
- Community
- Tjuntjuntjara
- Language group
- Pitjantjatjara
Tjintilkara, 2000
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
91.5 x 82 cm
$4,800
- Provenance
- Spinifex Arts Project, Tjuntjuntjara, WA
- Exhibited
- Pila Nguru - Art of the Spinifex People, Yuwayi Gallery, World Square, 2001
- Artwork story
- This painting was exhibited along with 31 other works which formed the first commercial exhibition of artworks painted by the traditional owners from Spinifex, February, 2001. Tjintilkara: Judith is a senior Spinifex woman who grew up out in the country. Tjintilkara is the lakes country, a vast area of salt lakes and mulga east of Tjuntjuntjara. This is a primary Seven Sisters Dreaming site through which the sisters passed and camped. Marlukurda and Tjintirkara are the two main sites withy surrounding country Marludii, Ngarbudii, Ngarlingka, Injipirti, Judingka and Karnapii which are all shown in this painting. The sisters travelled on their epic jounrey far accross Spinifex to Kulyuru in the northwest shaping and defining the landscape. This is country is also part of the vast ranging Mamut Juta (Many Evil Spirits) story.