25   SOLD

MARTIN TJAMPITJINPA (born circa 1965)
Acrylic on Belgian linen
122 x 61 cm

This painting depicts designs associated with the important claypan site of Ngurrapulangu, approximately halfway between the communities of Kintore and Kiwirrkura. This is a low lying area situated at the base of a long escarpment which consists of a number of huge claypans. During ancestral time a group of Tingari men camped at this site as they travelled west, eventually passing through Umari and Wala Wala. The concentric squares in the painting represent these claypans, while the connected roundels are the camp sites of the men as they travelled. Since events associated with the Tingari Cycle are of a secret nature, no further detail is given.

PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Alice Springs 2006,
Certificate number MT0608224

Martin was born in the mid 1960s and is the youngest son of Uta Uta Tjangala, one of the most well known of the founding members of Papunya Tula Artists. His mother, Walangkura Napanangka, is also an important artist with the company after she started to paint in 1999. Martin completed his first works for Papunya Tula Artists in 1994, but it was not until early 2002 that he began to be a regular contributor. The sites of significance and sections of the Tingari song cycle referred to in his paintings are those which occurred regularly in his father’s paintings, such as Muyinga, Ngurrapulangu and Umari.

REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria