PEG LEG TJAMPITJINPA - TINGARI AT PARAYILYPIL
PEG LEG TJAMPITJINPA
TINGARI AT PARAYILYPIL, 2002
137 x 30 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
REGION
Papunya Western Desert, NT
PROVENANCE
Arnhemland Art, NT
Yanda Aboriginal Art
Thomas Vroom Collection, The Netherlands
Cooee Gallery, Sydney
STORY
Pegleg was Pinta Pinta Tjapanangka's friend at the genesis of the Western Desert art movement but is not known to have painted at that time. During the 1980s, both artists created works with an economy of form and colour, which came to symbolise a return to the scale and temperament of the early years.
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 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.
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