Tingari Cycle by Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri

24.04.08 | by Sabine Haider

Central Art recently published another spectacular piece by Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Tingari Cycle. The painting depicts the journey path the Tingari ancestors travelled, creating and shaping...

Central Art recently published another spectacular piece by Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Tingari Cycle.

The painting depicts the journey path the Tingari ancestors travelled, creating and shaping sacred ceremonial sites. The Tingari ancestors performed ceremonies and instilled law and culture to the Pintupi Aboriginal people of the Western Desert.

Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri came to Kiwirrkurra with his family in 1984. This family group was considered to be one of the last Pintupi who made contact with modern Australia. His art is a very important testimony to the time-honored way of living and the beliefs that sustained the Aboriginal people for centuries.

Warlimpirrnga began painting for Papunya Tula Artists on canvas with acrylics only three years after emerging from his traditional country around Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay).