Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula
- Title
- Tjangimanta, from the suite Tjukurrpa Palurukutu, Kutjupawana Palyantjanya - same stories, a new way
- Place of origin
-
Papunya →
Northern Territory →
Australia
- Year
- 2009
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching on Hahnemühle rag paper
- Edition
- 1/40
- Dimensions
-
33.0 x 25.0cm platemark; 55.0 x 45.0cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r. beneath platemark with artist's mark, pencil "X". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Aboriginal Collection Benefactors' Group 2011
- Accession number
- 421.2011.16
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
In addition to showcasing the quality of Papunya Tula Artists as a whole, this suite of etchings emphasises the strength of each individual artist as they successfully translate their Tjukurrpa to the new medium of printmaking. Far from being a mere copy of their paintings in a different scale and medium each artists adapts their visual language to this new process with apparent ease, resulting in bold, confident works that are extraordinary in themselves, and when combined as a suite, are truly amazing.
The art centre documentation for this work states:
This etching depicts designs associated with the soakage water site of Tjangimanta, north-east of the Kiwirrkura community. In ancestral times a large group of Tingari Men visited this site during their travels east to the rockhole site of Tarkul slightly north of Winparku (Mt Webb). The men later continued their travels north to Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay).
Since events associated with the Tingari cycle are of a secret nature no further detail was given.
