Tingari / Bushfire

SKU: 6616

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari / Bushfire 2003 acrylic on linen 180x350cm FW6616

RONNIE TJAMPITJINPA
Born: c.1943 Muyinnga NT
Died: 2023 Alice Springs NT
Language: Pintupi
Country: Lake Mackay
Region: Walungurru (Kintore) & Alice Springs NT

Ronnie began painting around 1974, in the early years of the Papunya Tula Artists movement, with his work focusing (largely) on the Tingari Cycle stories relating to this area. The images can be simply understood as a coded visual language derived from initiation ceremonies. From the 1990s onward Ronnie’s work developed its own vibrant character as he experimented with fresh combinations of motifs, colour and compositional design. His works are held in numerous private, corporate and public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery and Musee des Arts Africains et Oceanies, Paris, France.
Tingari ancestors are believed to have travelled through the Western Desert creating sacred sites and handing down responsibility of the continuity of all laws and ceremonies.Ā TingariĀ gathered and performed at sacred sites, and thisĀ songlineĀ ritualĀ of both ceremony, and more recently dot/circle/line painting, remain part of this continuing tradition. The (Menā€™s)Ā TingariĀ designs are iconoclastically embedded into the essential traditions of the Western Desert art movement of the Pintupi.

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