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Click to enlargec.1919 – 2002
- Region
- Central Desert & Tanami
- Community
- Lajamanu
- Language group
- Warlpiri (Walpari, Walpiri, Walpirie)
Katinpatimpa, Darwin NT, June 2003
Etching: Sugar lift painting, aquatint and a la poupee inking on two plates
$680
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- Edition size
- 99
- Printer
- Collaborator/ platemaker: Basil Hall; Printer: Matthew Ablitt
- Studio
- Basil Hall Editions, Darwin NT
- Paper
- Hahnemuhle 350gsm
- Paper size
- 56 cm x 76 cm
- Image size
- 54 cm x 74 cm
- Framed
- No
- AAPN
- AJ010
- Production notes
- Plate created at Lajamanu NT, July 2002
- Exhibited
- Yilpinji: Love Art and Ceremony, Australian Museum, Sydney; toured nationally and internationally (Australia, United States and Europe), 2002–2003. Curated by Dr Christine Nicholls; coordinated by Adrian Newstead for the Australian Art Print Network.
- Artwork story
- This print was made from the mark the artist made on an etching plate while telling the narrative story, which took place at Thompson’s Rockhole in the Tanami Desert. The artist was just three weeks from the end of his life and unable to paint any longer. The marks are exactly as he made them as if drawing in the sand while telling an epic tale. Katinpatimpa was a Jangala, Two women fell in love with him at Thompson’s Rockhole where they were living. The women were both Nungarrayis and their father was a Japaljarri. That Japaljarri gave his daughters to Katinipatimpa. The Jangala married them both, both of the Nungarrayi’s daughters. The Rainman, Ngapa, came and hit him with lightning. Ngapa chased him and struck him, he broke a leg. Katinpatimpa came back and took his two women to a Mulju (a soakwater). That Mulju was called Yantukumanpa. Ngapa caught up with him there while he was digging for water. The two Nungarrayis told Katinpatimpa to get up and go. Ngapa chased him all the way back to Thompson’s Rockhole. He put him in the water. They fought fiercely. Katinpatimpa kept moving as he fought all the way to Woolambi. Ngapa killed him there. He had deep marks across his body from the boomerangs that hit him and the spears that pierced his skin. He turned in to a stone at that place. That stone is there to this day.