Tingari Cycleby Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri

This magnificent bold iconic painting relates to the Tingari men, who were a group of ancestral spirit beings during the Dreamtime Creation. They performed ceremonies and instilled law and culture to the Pintupi people of the Western Desert.

Artist:Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri
Title:Tingari Cycle
ID:0704632
Medium:Acrylic on Belgian Linen
Size:129 x 212 cm
Region:Kiwirrkurra, Western Desert

Artist

Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri was born c. 1958 east of Kirwirrkurra, Western Australia. Warlimpirrnga 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).

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