Artist: George Tjungurrayi
Title : Untitled
Size : 183cm x 244cm
Date : 2001
Language Group: Pintupi
Description : This painting depicts events associated with the Tingari Cycle which are secret and for which only limited detail has been provided by the artist. The painting represents the journey of an old Tingari Man of the Tjapaltjarri kinship subsection who, having camped at the claypan site of Kirrimalunya near two large rocky hills north of Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay), travels to Wilkinkarra. Tingari are a group of mythical characters of the Dreaming and these mythologies provide explanations for contemporary customs and teachings. The Tingari Cycle is a roccuring inspiration for work by the desert artists.
Biography of Artist: George Tjungarrayi was born near Kiwirrkura in Western Australia about 1947. He came in from the desert via Mt Doreen and Yenduu and started painting about 1976. He now paints at Kintore where this work was undertaken and at Yai Yai, Warawa, and Mt Leibig.
He has had several important solo exhibitions at Utopia Art Sydney and Gabrielle Pizzi in Melbourne, in the Netherlands in 1995 and 1998 and Vienna in 2001. George Tjungurrayi works are in the collections of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, the Art Gallery of NSW, the Groninger Museum (The Netherlands), the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Gallery of Australia and the University of Virginia, USA.
