RONNIE TJAMPITJINPA - TINGARI CYCLE
RONNIE TJAMPITJINPA
TINGARI CYCLE, 2003
153 x 122 cm
synthetic polymer paint on belgian linen
PROVENANCE
Papunya Western Desert, NT
Papunya Tula, N.TPrivate Collection, Vic
STORY
This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Umari, situated in sandhill country, east of Mt. Webb in Western Australia. In mythological times a Tingari man of the Tjakamarra kinship subsection travelled from Kampurrarrpa, north of the Ehrenberg Range. He travelled west to Umari where he had a liason with a woman of the Nangala kinship subsection.(Papunya Tula - full story documented on certificate)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.
EXHIBITED
Earth. Fire. Water - Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, May 2015, Coo-ee Art Gallery