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Tingari Cycleby Naata NungurrayiThe painting refer to the Tingari ancestors, who were group of mythical beings in the Dreamtime. They travelled over vast stretches of Pintupi country in the Western Desert performing rituals, creating and shaping particular sites. The Tingari women followed the Tingari men and were accompanied by novices. It is the Tingari men and women's travels and adventures that are enshrined in a number of song cycles. |
ArtistNaata Nungurrayi is an Australian Aboriginal artist who was born in 1932 at the site of Kumil, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. She is from the Pintupi group from Kintore in central Australia. Naata Nungurrayi is one of the senior elders of the Kintore women artist movement. She is the sister of George Tjungurrayi and Nancy Nungurrayi (passed away 2009). Naata Nungurrayi's son is Kenny Williams Tjampitjinpa who are all well known artists. One of her paintings appeared on Australia Post stamps in a 2003 special edition of Aboriginal art. Naata Nungurrayi was named among the Top 50 of Australia’s Most Collectable Artists in Australian Art Collector January – March, 2004. |
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