Artist: Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi | Title: Tingari at Karrkurruntjintjana | Year: 1994 | Medium: Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen | Dimensions: 136 x 91 cm
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists, NT Cat. No. YY940120
Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, Vic Cat. No. 3290
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
Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi was born west of Lake Macdonald and walked into Papunya in 1962 with his wife Ningura Napurrula and their injured son Mawitji. Yala Yala began painting in the early 1970s alongside other prominent Aboriginal artists at Papunya, helping to pioneer the iconic ‘Tingari’ painting style that would come to define the Western Desert art movement…Continue Reading
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists, NT Cat. No. YY940120
Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, Vic Cat. No. 3290
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
Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi was born west of Lake Macdonald and walked into Papunya in 1962 with his wife Ningura Napurrula and their injured son Mawitji. Yala Yala began painting in the early 1970s alongside other prominent Aboriginal artists at Papunya, helping to pioneer the iconic ‘Tingari’ painting style that would come to define the Western Desert art movement…Continue Reading
