WALALA TJAPALTJARRI - TINGARI

WALALA TJAPALTJARRI
TINGARI
106 x 47 cm
Limited Edition Screenprint on Paper
Edition of 45
 
REGION
Papunya Western Desert, NT
 
PROVENANCE
Northern Editions, NT
Gallery Gondwana NT
 
STORY
Walala has depicted his country (claypans) near Lake Mackay in WA. Walala paints the Tingari Cycle, which is a series of sacred and secret songlines. These Tingari are associated with his Dreaming sites at Marua, Mintarpi, Mina Mina, Naami, Lake Mackay and Yarrawangu, which are all in the Gibson Desert.
The Tingari song and dance cycles are the most secret and sacred of the deeply religious rituals of the Western Desert Tribes of Central Australia. In the Dreamtime a group of old men moved continuously from waterhole to waterhole throughout the western desert. They were accompanied by novices and initiated men who were still undergoing ceremonies of instruction at various sites designated by the Tingari men.
These rituals consisted of hundreds of song and dance cycles telling of the travels and adventures of the Tingari, their creation of sacred sites and fertility rites, the significance of body designs and decorations made of woven human hair .
 
 
 
ARTIST PROFILE
WALALA TJAPALTJARRI