Click to enlargeTjitji Kutjarra, 1993
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
100 x 50 cm
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- Exhibited
- Wimmitji, a mapan (traditional healer) of unsurpassed knowledge and ceremonial importance was a man of great ritual authority when he walked out of the desert into the Old Balgo Mission in 1942. He created visually complex paintings with intricacy and textural richness containing a vast amount of knowledge. These were achieved through spontaneous outpourings of dotting, and myriad surface treatments. (Christine Watson 1997: 49). In this 1993 work, Tjitji Kutjara, we see the sacred Two Children’s Dreaming site in his homeland deep in the Western Desert, north of Lake McKay.