PEG LEG TJAMPITJINPA - UNTITLED (PAIR)
PEG LEG TJAMPITJINPA
UNTITLED (PAIR), 2002
130 x 30 cm each
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
REGION
Papunya Western Desert, NT
PROVENANCE
Yanda Aboriginal Art, NT, Cat No. PL200225 and PL200242
Private Collection, Vic
Cooee Art Leven, NSW
STORY
The Tingari Cycle is a secret song cycle sacred to initiated men. The Tingari ancestors travelled across the landscape visiting sites associated with Maliera (initiation) ceremonies. Today, these sites take the form of, and are located at, significant rockholes, sand hills, sacred mountains, and water soakages in the Western Desert. These works can be poetically interpreted as song-line paintings relating to the songs (of the people) and creation stories (of places) in Pintupi mythology.
Pegleg is closely associated with his friend Pinta Pinta Tjapanangka. Both created works with economy of form and colour that came to symbolise a return to the scale and temperament of the early years of the Western Desert Art Movement.
EXHIBITED
Tracing The Country, March 2023, Cooee Art | Redfern
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