Artist: John Kipara Tjakamarra | Title: Tingari | Year: 1982 | Medium: Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen | Dimensions: 121 x 90.5 cm
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists, NT Cat. No. JT820834
Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, Vic Cat. No. 7115
Hank Ebes Collection, Vic
Accompanied by a certificate booklet from Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings
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. They 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.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Papunya Western Desert, NT
LANGUAGE
Pintupi
BIOGRAPHY
John Kipara was born and grew up near Kulkuta west of Tjukurla north of the present day community of Kiwrikurra and spent his youth in salt lake country southwest of Lake Macdonald. His family had been one of the first groups to be re-settled at Papunya in the early sixties and after John first encountered Europeans for the first time when in his early 30’s he expressed his desire to join them…. Continue reading
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists, NT Cat. No. JT820834
Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, Vic Cat. No. 7115
Hank Ebes Collection, Vic
Accompanied by a certificate booklet from Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings
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. They 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.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Papunya Western Desert, NT
LANGUAGE
Pintupi
BIOGRAPHY
John Kipara was born and grew up near Kulkuta west of Tjukurla north of the present day community of Kiwrikurra and spent his youth in salt lake country southwest of Lake Macdonald. His family had been one of the first groups to be re-settled at Papunya in the early sixties and after John first encountered Europeans for the first time when in his early 30’s he expressed his desire to join them…. Continue reading
