SAMMY BUTTLER - TINGARI
SAMMY BUTTLER
TINGARI, 2008
46 x 38cm
synthetic polymer paint on linen
REGION
Kintore Western Desert, NT
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists, N.T
Cooee Art Leven, NSW
STORY
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
Ochres to Dust, June 2009, Cooee Art Leven, NSW
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