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RONNIE TJAMPITJINPA (born circa 1940)

Acrylic on Belgian linen
183 x 153 cm

This painting depicts designs relating to the site of Tjintjintjin, west of the Kintore Community. In mythological times an old lady travelled to this site. She travelled from Malparingya, north-west of the Kintore Community and visited the site of Tjintjintjin where there is an underground cave, also the soakage water sites of Ngatanga and Yaranga which are all west of Mantati Outstation, approximately seventy kilometers west of the Kintore Community. She then travelled further east to Muruntji, south-west of Mt. Liebig.

PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Kintore 2003,
Certificate number RT0305033

Ronnie was born at Tjiturrunya west of Mawuyan, across the Northern Territory border in Western Australia. He spent most of his formative years as a nomad in the remote desert surrounding his birthplace. He was initiated at the Winparku area of Western Australia. Due to drought conditions in the 1950’s, he and his family walked into Haasts Bluff where Tjampitjinpa worked as a stockman. He and his family were then removed to a newly formed Papunya settlement in the early 1960’s where he worked as a fencer, making yards for cattle. Ronnie commenced painting in 1971.

REPRESENTED
Australian National Gallery
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Queensland Art Gallery
Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
Musee National des Arts d’Afrique et d’Oceanie, Paris