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GEORGE TJUNGURRAYI (born circa 1943)
Acrylic on Belgian linen
122 x 61 cm

The two concentric roundels in this panting depict designs associated with the sites of Ngampalnga, a large rockhole slightly west of the Kiwirrkura community and Nginkulwalunya, soakage water site on the western side of Lake MacDonald. In ancestral times a Snake Ancestor passed through these sites before travelling west to Nyinmi, near Jupiter Well. This ancestral snake, as part of the Tingari Cycle of events, later continued travelling west. Since events associated with the Tingari Cycle are of a secret nature no further detail was given.

PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Alice Springs 2006,
Certificate number GT0609230

George was born in the desert in the vicinity of Kiwirrkura in approximately 1943_and is the younger brother of Naata Nungurrayi. George walked in to Papunya with another young man along a freshly graded road, after living at Mukula west of Kiwirrkura. He commenced painting for Papunya Tula Artists in the early 1980’s.

REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin
The Holmes à Court Collection, Perth
Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
University of Virginia, USA
Musée des Arts d’Afrique et d’Oceanie, Paris