GEORGE TJUNGARRAYI WARD - TINGARI

GEORGE TJUNGARRAYI WARD
TINGARRI,  2018
100 x 100 cm
acrylic on canvas
 
REGION
Warakurna, WA
 
PROVENANCE
Warakurna Artists, WA
Art Leven, Gadigal
 
STORY
The Tingari Cycle is a secret song cycle sacred to initiated men. The Tingari are Dreamtime Beings who travelled across the landscape performing ceremonies to create and shape the country associated with Dreaming sites.
 
The Tingari ancestors gathered at these sites for Maliera (initiation) ceremonies. The sites take the form of, and are located at, significant rockholes, sand hills, sacred mountains and water soakages in the western desert.
 
Tingari may be poetically interpreted as song-line paintings relating to the songs (of the people) and creation stories (of places) in Pintupi mythology.
 
 
 
ARTIST PROFILE
GEORGE TJUNGARRAYI WARD