Title
Water dreaming at Kalipimpinpa
1971
Artist
Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula
Australia
circa 1920 – 12 Feb 2001
Language group: Luritja, Central Desert region
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Details
- Alternative title
- Water dreaming
- Place where the work was made
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Papunya
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Australia
- Date
- 1971
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- enamel and synthetic polymer paint on composition board
- Dimensions
- 76.0 x 18.5 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Donated through the Australian Governments cultural gifts program by Elizabeth Ritson and Michael Kerin Morgan AO 2022
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 94.2022
- Copyright
- © Estate of Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula
- Artist information
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Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula
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About
Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula was serving on the Papunya Council when Geoffrey Bardon arrived at Papunya and encouraged the older men to paint. From the movement's earliest days, Tjupurrula developed a distinctive personal style of over dotting, often in several layers, creating effects that Bardon called 'tremulous illusion'.
The site of Kalipinya, a well to the north-west of Sandy Blight Junction was a recurring subject within the work of Tjupurrula, and he is most recognised for his early works of this location. While somewhat distinct from many of Tjupurrula’s depictions of this waterhole, Water dreaming at Kalipimpinpa 1971 captures this location in bold colour with gestural linework.
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Places
Where the work was made
Papunya
