Acrylic on Belgian linen
150 x 75 cm
Pauline has painted one of her father ’s stories. Pauline’s father,
Sunfly Tjampitjin was a senior custodian for country south of Balgo. The circle
in the centre depicts a big lake called Kalpanu, a waniri, or rockhole. The
country is near Lake Hazlett, south east of Balgo. It is Sunfly ’s father ’s
dreaming country. Kalpanu is an important site for the native cat dreaming,
who lived here and
at the other rockholes of the area. The lines connecting the rockholes are
the tracks that the ancestral cat took, which turned to Kaliki, or creeks.
Kalpanu is an important ceremonial site for Tingari Men.
PROVENANCE
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia, painted 2002,
Catalogue number 412/02
Pauline is the daughter of the famous Balgo painters, Sunfly Tjampitjin, and
Bai Bai Napangardi, from whom she has inherited many Tjukurrpa (Dreamtime)
stories. Pauline learnt to paint from years of watching her father. Pauline
was born at the old Balgo Mission hospital and was educated through the mission
school. She recalls working in the kitchen, the laundry and clearing the grounds
of
the mission. She has spent some time in Fitzroy Crossing and has visited Broome
and Alice Springs, but otherwise has remained in Balgo with her young family.
REPRESENTED
Kelton Foundation Collection
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