JOHN JOHN BENNETT - TINGARI
JOHN JOHN BENNETT
TINGARI, 1988
122 x 122cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
REGION
Kintore Western Desert, NT
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists, NT
Private Collection, Sydney, NSW
Cooee Art Leven Art, Sydney, NSW
STORY
John John Bennett was a Pintupi artist based at Tjukurla and Kintore. Bennett painted for Papunya Tula Artists from the mid ‘80s with a long break while he lived in Tjukurl.
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 associated with Dreaming sites. The Tingari ancestors 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
