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JOSEPH JURRA TJAPALTJARRI (born circa 1952)

Acrylic on Belgian linen
122 x 122 cm

This painting depicts designs associated with the soakage water site of
Ngatjapirritji, south of Kiwirrkura Community. In mythological times a large
group of Tingari men camped at this site before travelling north-east to Tarkul,
north of Mt. Webb. They gathered the bark from the sandhill rattlepod shrub
(Crotalaria cunninghamii) This bark is used to make sandals which are worn when
the sand is very hot. 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 Kiwirrkura 2005,
Certificate number JJ0502097

Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri, was born in the desert near where the community of
Kiwirrkura now stands in Western Australia in approximately 1952. He commenced
painting in 1986. In 1999 Joseph contributed to the Kintore mens’ painting as part
of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal.

REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Robert Holmes à Court Collection
Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands
The Kelton Foundation Collection, Santa Monica, USA
University of Virginia, USA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Chicago