Water Dreaming, 2006

synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

120 x 77 cm

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Provenance: Grasstree Gallery, Albany, WA, Cat No. RT055GTG Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Grasstree Gallery and 3 photographs of the artist painting the artwork.
Artwork story: Ronnie Tjampitjinpa's works first appeared in Papunya Tula exhibitions during the 1970s, and later in commercial art galleries in Sydney and Melbourne throughout the 1980s. He won the Alice Springs Art Prize in 1988, followed by successive solo exhibitions at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in 1989 and 1990. More than any other Western Desert artist, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa can be credited with having forged a new artistic direction in embracing aesthetic minimalism during the 1990s. His hypnotic designs explore interacting geometric shapes which evoke an eye-catching, pulsating illusion. Still infused with the Dreamings of his mythical Tingari ancestors, Tjampitjinpa refined the characteristic Pintupi simplicity of design, boldly scaling up fundamental pictorial elements, freeing them from their iconographic reference points and strongly emphasising the distinctive repetition of line and form that has always infused Pintupi art with the spirit of their vast and ancient lands.

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c.1943 – 2023

synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

120 x 77 cm

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Provenance: Grasstree Gallery, Albany, WA, Cat No. RT055GTG Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Grasstree Gallery and 3 photographs of the artist painting the artwork.
Artwork story: Ronnie Tjampitjinpa's works first appeared in Papunya Tula exhibitions during the 1970s, and later in commercial art galleries in Sydney and Melbourne throughout the 1980s. He won the Alice Springs Art Prize in 1988, followed by successive solo exhibitions at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in 1989 and 1990. More than any other Western Desert artist, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa can be credited with having forged a new artistic direction in embracing aesthetic minimalism during the 1990s. His hypnotic designs explore interacting geometric shapes which evoke an eye-catching, pulsating illusion. Still infused with the Dreamings of his mythical Tingari ancestors, Tjampitjinpa refined the characteristic Pintupi simplicity of design, boldly scaling up fundamental pictorial elements, freeing them from their iconographic reference points and strongly emphasising the distinctive repetition of line and form that has always infused Pintupi art with the spirit of their vast and ancient lands.