Tingari Cycle, 2004

synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

120 x 60 cm

$3,500

Provenance: Directly commissioned from the artist Kimberley Art, Vic Accompanied by photographs of the artist painting the artwork.
Exhibited: Summer Sun, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW, January 2016 Earth. Fire. Water - Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW, May 2015
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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c.1943 – 2023

synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

120 x 60 cm

$3,500

Provenance: Directly commissioned from the artist Kimberley Art, Vic Accompanied by photographs of the artist painting the artwork.
Exhibited: Summer Sun, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW, January 2016 Earth. Fire. Water - Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW, May 2015
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.