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WILLY TJUNGURRAYI ORIGINAL ABORIGINAL ARTWORK
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HIGHLY COLLECTABLE WILLY TJUNGURRAYI ORIGINAL ARTWORK.
SIZE:120CMS X 90CMS
COA ISSUED BY:"ABORIGINAL DREAMTIME FINE ART GALLERY" SYDNEY
CATALOGUE NUMBER:AD0178-8706WT
PAINTED IN 2006
PHOTO OF ARTIST WITH PAINTING
Willy Tjungurrayi (DECEASED 2018)
One of the most sought after painters of the Western Desert, Willy Tjungurrayi is a senior Pintupi man, entitled by his ancestry and communal position to paint the sacred and secret Tingari cycle.
He has been acknowledged as one of the great colourists of contemporary Aboriginal painting.
Willy is the middle one of three brothers; Yala Yala Gibbs (founding member of the Papunya art movement and senior custodian of secret/sacred men business) was the eldest and George Ward Tjungurrayi the youngest. They were all sons of Pulpalpulpalnga Tjapaltjarri but had different mothers.
Willy Tjungurrayi was born around 1932 at Patjantja, southwest of Lake Mackay in the Northern Territory. He came into Haast’s Bluff in 1956 with other Pintupi people, and in 1959 Willy was trucked across to Papunya with most of the other Aboriginal residents due to problems with Haasts Bluff’s water supply. Willy began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1976. By the 1980s Willy was recognized as a senior Pintupi painter, and he joined the movement of return to the Pintupi homelands. He lived in Walungurru (Kintore) until 2003 and now splits his time between Alice Springs and Walungurru.
Stories from the Tingari Dreaming song cycle, and the land around Haast’s Bluff, Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) and Kaakuratintja (Lake MacDonald), are Willy Tjungarrayi’s two great linked themes. For some subjects Willy paints dozens of dotted Roundels (concentric circles), linked by parallel lines, the spaces between them filled with bright, flat primary and mixed colours, a depiction of the travels and stopping places of the Tingari Men, an image of the rhythmic repetition of the songs associated with the Tjukurpa (Creation era or Dreaming).
Born circa 1930 at Patjantja, south-west of Lake Mackay, Willy was raised by Charlie Tarawa, who was Willy’s father’s brother. Willy was raised ‘in the bush’-‘naked’ with ‘only nulla nulla and woomera’. The brother of respected painters Brandy and George “Hairbrush” Tjungarrayi and the late Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi, at Patjantja, southwest of Lake Mackay in the Northern Territory. He came into Haast’s Bluff in 1956 with other Pintupi people, and began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1976. By the 1980s Willy was recognized as a senior Pintupi painter, and he joined the movement of return to the Pintupi homelands. Willy began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1976 during the ’80s since emerged as one of the senior Pintupi painters. His country lies a short distance to the south west of Kintore, around Kulkuta, Tjukula, Warrabri, Malka, Yumari, Tjitikulpa and Patjanytja.
One of the most sought after painters of the Western Desert, Willy Tjungurrayi is a senior Pintupi man, entitled by his ancestry and communal position to paint the sacred and secret Tingari cycle. He has been acknowledged as one of the great colourists of contemporary Aboriginal painting.
More recently, Tjungarrayi’s paintings feature hundreds of endless wavy lines in an ochre monochrome shimmer across the canvas on a pale background. These paintings illustrate (or witness, might be more correct) the sand hills and the fierce hailstorm that killed the ancestral Tingari Men in the Dreamtime. Willy Tjungarrayi’s work is highly sought after, and has been acquired for many major private and public collections.
Exhibitions
1982 Georges Gallery, Melbourne.
1982 Brisbane Festival, 1982, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1983 Papunya: paintings from the Central Australian Desert, touring exhibition, America and Europe.
1985 Dot and Circle, a retrospective survey of the Aboriginal acrylic paintings of Central Australia, Royal Melbourne
SIZE:120CMS X 90CMS
COA ISSUED BY:"ABORIGINAL DREAMTIME FINE ART GALLERY" SYDNEY
CATALOGUE NUMBER:AD0178-8706WT
PAINTED IN 2006
PHOTO OF ARTIST WITH PAINTING
Willy Tjungurrayi (DECEASED 2018)
One of the most sought after painters of the Western Desert, Willy Tjungurrayi is a senior Pintupi man, entitled by his ancestry and communal position to paint the sacred and secret Tingari cycle.
He has been acknowledged as one of the great colourists of contemporary Aboriginal painting.
Willy is the middle one of three brothers; Yala Yala Gibbs (founding member of the Papunya art movement and senior custodian of secret/sacred men business) was the eldest and George Ward Tjungurrayi the youngest. They were all sons of Pulpalpulpalnga Tjapaltjarri but had different mothers.
Willy Tjungurrayi was born around 1932 at Patjantja, southwest of Lake Mackay in the Northern Territory. He came into Haast’s Bluff in 1956 with other Pintupi people, and in 1959 Willy was trucked across to Papunya with most of the other Aboriginal residents due to problems with Haasts Bluff’s water supply. Willy began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1976. By the 1980s Willy was recognized as a senior Pintupi painter, and he joined the movement of return to the Pintupi homelands. He lived in Walungurru (Kintore) until 2003 and now splits his time between Alice Springs and Walungurru.
Stories from the Tingari Dreaming song cycle, and the land around Haast’s Bluff, Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) and Kaakuratintja (Lake MacDonald), are Willy Tjungarrayi’s two great linked themes. For some subjects Willy paints dozens of dotted Roundels (concentric circles), linked by parallel lines, the spaces between them filled with bright, flat primary and mixed colours, a depiction of the travels and stopping places of the Tingari Men, an image of the rhythmic repetition of the songs associated with the Tjukurpa (Creation era or Dreaming).
Born circa 1930 at Patjantja, south-west of Lake Mackay, Willy was raised by Charlie Tarawa, who was Willy’s father’s brother. Willy was raised ‘in the bush’-‘naked’ with ‘only nulla nulla and woomera’. The brother of respected painters Brandy and George “Hairbrush” Tjungarrayi and the late Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi, at Patjantja, southwest of Lake Mackay in the Northern Territory. He came into Haast’s Bluff in 1956 with other Pintupi people, and began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1976. By the 1980s Willy was recognized as a senior Pintupi painter, and he joined the movement of return to the Pintupi homelands. Willy began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1976 during the ’80s since emerged as one of the senior Pintupi painters. His country lies a short distance to the south west of Kintore, around Kulkuta, Tjukula, Warrabri, Malka, Yumari, Tjitikulpa and Patjanytja.
One of the most sought after painters of the Western Desert, Willy Tjungurrayi is a senior Pintupi man, entitled by his ancestry and communal position to paint the sacred and secret Tingari cycle. He has been acknowledged as one of the great colourists of contemporary Aboriginal painting.
More recently, Tjungarrayi’s paintings feature hundreds of endless wavy lines in an ochre monochrome shimmer across the canvas on a pale background. These paintings illustrate (or witness, might be more correct) the sand hills and the fierce hailstorm that killed the ancestral Tingari Men in the Dreamtime. Willy Tjungarrayi’s work is highly sought after, and has been acquired for many major private and public collections.
Exhibitions
1982 Georges Gallery, Melbourne.
1982 Brisbane Festival, 1982, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1983 Papunya: paintings from the Central Australian Desert, touring exhibition, America and Europe.
1985 Dot and Circle, a retrospective survey of the Aboriginal acrylic paintings of Central Australia, Royal Melbourne
- Date Listed:06/02/2023
- Last Edited:19/02/2024
- Condition:New
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