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exhibition Earth. Fire. Water.

From 7th May to 10th June 2015

1987 - 2015 Ronnie Tjampitjinpa

Earth. Fire. Water.

1987 - 2015

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa



Opening Night Thursday May 5 6-8pm

Exhibition May 5 - June 10 2015

The body of works collected for this exhibition covers the range and diversity of Ronnie’s work between 1987 and 2015. It has been curated to co-inside with the solo retrospective at the Art Gallery of NSW, 'Ronnie Tjampitjinpa's Land and Ancestors'. For the past few decades, Ronnie painted for a wide array of dealers as well as the Papunya Tula cooperative. As such, it is a fascinating insight into the way in which an artist’s work varied depending on the various agents that supported his art practice. Earning money wherever he went, he was able to indulge in the sort of freedom mostly denied his compatriots. He was in every sense the quintessential modern nomad. Having eschewed the trappings of fame and fortune he divided his time between working as a painter and his ceremonial obligations, and was familiarly known across a wide expanse of country as he travelled in his four-wheel drive with his spears tied on the roof.

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa first walked into Papunya in 1964 at 13 years of age. He’d begun painting in his early thirties, under the tutelage of Old Mick Tjakamarra following early tribal initiation in the West Australian desert. As senior custodian of the Honey Ant Dreaming, Old Mick had played an instrumental role in initiating the Papunya art movement.

Being one of the youngest to begin painting, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, was slightly more distanced from the ceremonial origins of Pintupi art as practiced by the older men. The classic Pintupi painting style encompasses body paint designs, cartography of country and ancestral narratives. Ronnie’s paintings, however, demonstrated a more bold and expressionistic approach. Laborious, individual dots evolved into linked or ‘flicked’ dotting and a strong linear emphasis. Distinct iconographic features such as circles and U shapes were relinquished in favour of abstraction and the creation of a vibrant, painterly surface.

With the Pintupi return to tribal lands in the late 1970s Ronnie Tjampitjinpa became a strong advocate for the outstation movement. He stopped painting due to political involvement. As the chairman of the Kintore outstations council he was responsible for important land claims. When he returned to painting in the early 1980s he did so with new enthusiasm describing politics as ‘too much humbug’. By 1984, he’d won the Northern Territory Art Award.

Demand for Tjampitjinpa’s work grew through the late 1980s and his leaning towards painterly abstraction was increasingly favoured and encouraged by the contemporary art market. He emerged as a leading figure, sustaining the post1990s art boom, having forged a new direction, freeing up further possibilities for the younger up-coming generation of painters and challenging fixed perceptions of Western Desert art.

Ronnie’s hypnotic designs emanate an eye-catching, pulsating action. He has refined classic Pintupi designs, boldly scaling up fundamental pictorial elements and freeing them from their iconographic reference points. His powerful distinctive paintings are infused with the spirit of the Pintupi’s vast and ancient lands.

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Fire, Tingari and Water by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Fire, Tingari and Water - 2001
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

350 x 180 cm
#13725
$95,000.00

Tingari Cycle by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari Cycle -
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

186 x 335 cm
#7715
$85,000.00

Tingari / Snake Dreaming by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari / Snake Dreaming - 2010
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

120 x 180 cm
#13749
$N/A

Water Dreaming by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Water Dreaming - 1999
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

181 x 211 cm
#8298
SOLD

Tingari Cycle by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari Cycle - 1997
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

181 x 143cm
#13665
SOLD

 by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

180 x 120 cm
#13736
SOLD

Tingari by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari - 2004
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

120 x 180 cm
#13752
SOLD

Fire Dreaming by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Fire Dreaming - 2008
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

120 x 180 cm
#13748
SOLD

Water Dreaming by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Water Dreaming - 2010
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

120 x 180 cm
#13751
SOLD

Tingari Dreaming by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari Dreaming - 2010
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

120 x 180 cm
#13750
$N/A

Tingari- Bush Fire Dreaming by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari- Bush Fire Dreaming - 2004
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

145 x 127 cm
#11631
$N/A

Tingari Cycle by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari Cycle - 2000
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

150 x 150 cm
#13747
$N/A

Tingari by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari - 1999
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

168 x46 cm
#1053
$N/A

Water Hole by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Water Hole - 1997
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

182 x 136 cm
#13730
SOLD

Tingari Cycle  by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari Cycle - 2003
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

153 x 122 cm
#13727
SOLD

Tingari Cycle by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari Cycle - 2015
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

150 x 90 cm
#13719
SOLD

Fire Dreaming by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Fire Dreaming - 2015
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

150 x 90 cm
#13718
SOLD

Tingari Cycle by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari Cycle - 1997
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

180 x 90 cm
#13726 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$8,800.00

Tingari Cycle by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari Cycle - 2015
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

120 x 120 cm
#13721
SOLD

Tingari Cycle by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari Cycle - 1999
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

122 x 92 cm
#11671
$7,000.00

Fire Dreaming by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Fire Dreaming - 2015
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

120 x 120 cm
#13720
SOLD

Rain Dreaming at Muyinnga by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Rain Dreaming at Muyinnga - 1999
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

120 x 60 cm
#13746
$N/A

Tingari Cycle by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari Cycle - 2004
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

120 x 60 cm
#13729 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$3,500.00

Water Dreaming by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Water Dreaming - 2004
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

120.0 x 61.0 cm
#13731
SOLD

 by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

90 x 60 cm
#13733
SOLD

Tingari Cycle by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari Cycle - 2004
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

135 x 61 cm
#13741
$N/A

Tingari Cycle by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari Cycle - 2004
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

122 x 58 cm
#13742 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$2,500.00

Water Dreaming by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Water Dreaming - 1993
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

107 x 28 cm
#13713
SOLD

Tingari Cycle by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari Cycle - 1997
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

107 x 28 cm
#13714
SOLD

Water Dreaming by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Water Dreaming - 1994
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

107 x 28 cm
#13715
SOLD

Water Hole by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Water Hole - 2004
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

90.0 x 60.0 cm
#13732
$N/A

Water Hole by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Water Hole - 1999
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

61 x 55 cm
#13735
SOLD

Fire Dreaming by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Fire Dreaming - 2004
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 5

194 x 307 cm
#7045
SOLD


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