Willy Tjungurrayi
(Australia circa 1936– )
- Language group
- Pintupi, Western Desert region
- Title
- Tingari Story
- Place of origin
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Walungurru (Kintore) →
Northern Territory →
Australia
- Year
- 1986
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on linen canvas
- Dimensions
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242.5 x 362.5cm x 4cm stretcher
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Mollie Gowing Acquisition Fund for Contemporary Aboriginal Art 1993
- Accession number
- 548.1993
- Copyright
- © Willy Tjungurrayi. Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This work depicts the travels of the Tingari, a group of ancestor beings, who travelled over vast stretches of the country performing rituals and creating and shaping sites. The Tingari Men were usually accompanied by novices and their travels and adventures are enshrined in a number of song cycles. These mythologies form part of the teachings of post-initiate youths today as well as providing explanations for contemporary customs. The Tingari ceremonies are of a secret nature and no further information was given by the artist. Willy Tjungurrayi has included a vast array of sites in this work, probably around his country in the region of Lake McDonald. In Mythological times, a large group of Tingari Men made camp at Lake McDonald during their journeying from the Peterman Range towards Kintore.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 1993
- Bibliography (11)
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Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne (Australia, estab. 2007) (Compilator), Deutscher and Hackett fine art auction: Melbourne 28 November 2012, Melbourne, 2012, 170.
Vivien Johnson (Australia) (Author), Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists, Northern Territory, 2008, 151 (colour illus.).
Phillip Batty (Author), John Kean (Australia) (Author), Dick Kimber (Australia, b.1939) (Author), Jeremy Long (Australia) (Author), Colliding worlds: first contact in the Western Desert 1932-1984, Melbourne, 2006, 49, 50 (colour illus.), 56.
Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Editor), Hannah Fink (Australia) (Editor), Papunya Tula: genesis and genius, Domain, 2000, 96-97 (colour illus.), 288. no catalogue number
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, 283 (colour illus.), 290 (colour illus.), 302.
Aspects of Australian art 2000, 2000, (illus.). card no. 12: Fred Williams 'You Yangs landscape' 1963
Bruce James (Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, Domain, 1999, 227 (colour illus.).
Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Ken Watson (Australia) (Author), A material thing - objects from the collection, Sydney, 1999.
Art-i-facts: Book Two, an exploration of ideas in drawing 1998, 1998, 9 (colour illus.).
Margo Neale (Australia) (Author), Yiribana: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection, Sydney, 1994, 70, 71 (colour illus.), 138, 139. plate no. 33
Ewen McDonald (Australia) (Editor), The Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 1994, 102 (colour illus.), 103.
- Exhibition history (9)
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Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997.
A material thing - Objects from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 31 Aug 1998–09 Feb 1999.
Another Country, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Jul 1999–02 Apr 2000.
Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 18 Aug 2000–12 Nov 2000.
Colliding worlds: First contact in the Western Desert 1930-1984, Tandanya, 18 Feb 2006–28 May 2006.
Colliding worlds: First contact in the Western Desert 1930-1984, Melbourne Museum, 03 Jul 2006–10 Sep 2006.
Colliding worlds: First contact in the Western Desert 1930-1984, Australian Museum, 01 Apr 2007–26 Aug 2007.
Colliding worlds: First contact in the Western Desert 1930-1984, Albury Regional Gallery, 11 Jan 2008–24 Feb 2008.
Colliding worlds: First contact in the Western Desert 1930-1984, Araluen Centre, 07 Mar 2008–20 Apr 2008.
