Title
Kangaroo and Shield People Dreaming at Lake Mackay
1980
Artist
Timmy Payungu Tjapangati
Australia
circa 1940 – 07 May 2000
Language group: Pintupi, Western Desert region
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Papunya
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Cultural origin
- Papunya Tula Movement
- Date
- 1980
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 187.0 x 155.0 x 3.5 cm stretcher
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales 1995
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 484.1995
- Copyright
- © Estate of Timmy Payungu Tjapangati. Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd
- Artist information
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Timmy Payungu Tjapangati
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About
This painting depicts two Dreamings and Tjapangati's own homeland along the fringes of Lake MacKay in Western Australia. These two, which are celebrated in a corroboree, are a Kangaroo Dreaming, utilised in the Tingari cycle, and the story of the travelling Kuditchi, or Shield People. The full details of the story are secret but the artist did say that in the Kudutchi corroboree the men sing while the women dance. The cat's-cradle-like pattern around the edge of the painting represents rain travelling from hill to hill. The tracks of the kangaroo travelling from site to site are self-evident. The large pale area in the central part of the picture represents Lake Mackay. The roundels in that area are trees which grow in the lake. The golden-coloured patches are sandhills. The connected roundels and adjoining straight lines represent both soakages and campsites of the mythical Shield People in their travels.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
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Places
Where the work was made
Papunya
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Painted Dreams, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1982–1982
Copyrites - Aboriginal Art in the Age of Reproductive Technology, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, 02 Feb 1996–03 Mar 1996
Copyrites - Aboriginal Art in the Age of Reproductive Technology, Northern Territory Museum of Arts & Sciences, Australia, 15 Mar 1996–07 Apr 1996
Copyrites - Aboriginal Art in the Age of Reproductive Technology, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, 26 Apr 1996–26 May 1996
Copyrites - Aboriginal Art in the Age of Reproductive Technology, Tandanya, Adelaide, 07 Jun 1996–07 Jul 1996
Copyrites - Aboriginal Art in the Age of Reproductive Technology, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, Broken Hill, 16 Jul 1996–11 Aug 1996
Copyrites - Aboriginal Art in the Age of Reproductive Technology, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Aug 1996–10 Nov 1996
Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997
L'Art des Aborigènes d'Australie, Musée de Cambrai, France, 13 Sep 1998–23 Nov 1998
Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Aug 2000–12 Nov 2000
Our spirits lie in the water, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 2014–01 Nov 2015
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Bibliography
Referenced in 8 publications
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Steven Miller, Tony Tuckson, James Scougall, Mollie Gowing, Harry Messel, Craig Brush, Ronald Fine, Alison Fine, Gordon Davies, Rosalind Davies, Christopher Hodges, Helen Eager, Rosemary Gow, Sandra Phillips, Daphne Wallace and Ken Watson, Gamarada, Sydney, 1996, 70.
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Hetti Perkins, Education Kit - Papunya Tula: genesis and genius, 'Styles - iconographic and minimal', pg. 10-11, Sydney, 2000, 10 (colour illus.).
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Vivien Johnson and Tim Johnson, The Painted Dream, 1991, 20.
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Vivien Johnson, Copyrites - Aboriginal Art in the Age of Reproductive Technologies, Sydney, 1996, 43 (colour illus.), 54.
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Vivien Johnson, Painted Dreams, 'Collecting Western Desert Art - a personal view', pg. 8-13, Sydney, 1995, 8, 16, 17 (colour illus.), 46. plate no. 2
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Hetti Perkins, Look: 1953-2003 celebrating 50 years, 'When the everyday becomes extraordinary: AGS help acceptance of young urban indigenous artists', pg. 51-53, Sydney, May 2003, 52, 53 (colour illus.).
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Hetti Perkins and Hannah Fink (Editors), Papunya Tula: genesis and genius, Sydney, 2000, 86 (colour illus.), 286-287. no catalogue number
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Wayne Tunnicliffe and Deborah Edwards, Look, ‘New Australia’, pg. 24-27, Sydney, May 2012, 27.
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