Title
Tingari Story
1986
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Walungurru (Kintore)
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- 1986
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on linen
- Dimensions
- 242.5 x 362.5 cm x 4 cm stretcher
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Mollie Gowing Acquisition Fund for Contemporary Aboriginal Art 1993
- Location
- North Building, ground level, Yiribana Gallery
- Accession number
- 548.1993
- Copyright
- © Willy Tjungurrayi. Licensed Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd
- Artist information
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Willy Tjungurrayi
Works in the collection
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About
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
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Places
Where the work was made
Walungurru (Kintore)
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997
A material thing - Objects from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 31 Aug 1998–09 Feb 1999
Another Country, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Jul 1999–02 Apr 2000
Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Aug 2000–12 Nov 2000
Colliding worlds: First contact in the Western Desert 1930-1984, Tandanya, Adelaide, 18 Feb 2006–28 May 2006
Colliding worlds: First contact in the Western Desert 1930-1984, Melbourne Museum, Victoria, 03 Jul 2006–10 Sep 2006
Colliding worlds: First contact in the Western Desert 1930-1984, Australian Museum, Sydney, 01 Apr 2007–26 Aug 2007
Colliding worlds: First contact in the Western Desert 1930-1984, Albury Regional Gallery, Albury, 11 Jan 2008–24 Feb 2008
Colliding worlds: First contact in the Western Desert 1930-1984, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, 07 Mar 2008–20 Apr 2008
Yiribana Gallery: opening collection display, Art Gallery of New South Wales, North Building, Sydney, 03 Dec 2022–29 May 2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 12 publications
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Crispin Gutteridge, Deutscher and Hackett fine art auction: Melbourne 28 November 2012, Catalogue entry for Lot 132 Willy Tjungurrayi 'Tingari painting', pg. 170-171, Melbourne, 2012, 170.
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Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian Collection: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art', pg. 208-241, Sydney, 1999, 227 (colour illus.).
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Vivien Johnson, Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists, 'Willy Tjungurrayi', pg. 150-152, Northern Territory, 2008, 151 (colour illus.).
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John Kean, Colliding worlds: first contact in the Western Desert 1932-1984, 'A big canvas: mobilising Pintupi painting', pg. 46-52, Melbourne, 2006, 49, 50 (colour illus.), 56.
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Ewen McDonald, AGNSW Collections, 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pg. 7-106, Sydney, 1994, 102 (colour illus.), 103.
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Margo Neale, Yiribana: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection, Sydney, 1994, 70, 71 (colour illus.), 138, 139. plate no. 33
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Barry Pearce, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Earth and paradise', pg. 283-284, Sydney, 2000, 283 (colour illus.), 290 (colour illus.), 302.
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Hetti Perkins and Ken Watson, A material thing - objects from the collection, Sydney, 1999.
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Hetti Perkins and Hannah Fink (Editors), Papunya Tula: genesis and genius, Sydney, 2000, 96-97 (colour illus.), 288. no catalogue number
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Ursula Prunster, Aspects of Australian art, Sydney, 2000, (illus.). card no. 12: Fred Williams 'You Yangs landscape' 1963
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Vaughan Rees, Art-i-facts: Book Two, an exploration of ideas in drawing, Sydney, 1998, 9 (colour illus.).
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Nadia Wheatley, Australians all: a history of growing up from the ice age to the apology, 'The law of the land', pg. 10-31, Crows Nest, 2013, 12 (colour illus.).
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