Thomas Tjapaltjarri
Tingari
ASAATT2440
2008
302x180cm
Acrylic paints on linen
| Description: | During the creation era, Tingari ancestors gathered at a series of sites for Initiation Ceremonies. They traveled from across the country, performing rituals at specific sites that created the natural features of the landscape. The creation stories and rituals are still portrayed in song cycles, paintings and ceremonies and are part of the continuous teaching to the next generation. In painting Tingari Cycle, the artist is depicting the song cycle associated with the artist's many dreaming sites and the locations of significant natural sites in the Gibson Desert.
Thomas Tjapaltjarri, one of the last desert nomads to come out of the desert famously with his two artistic brothers Warlimpirrnga and Walala in 1984. Thomas was one of a party of nine Pintupi tribesmen who made their first contact with non-Aboriginal people when they walked out of the desert west of Lake Mackay into the small Kiwirrkura community, just inside the Western Australian border. Three years later, along with his brothers, he began painting for Papunya Tula Artists and is now considered a leading western desert artist. |
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