George Tjapaltjarri

Originally from Western Australia, here the artist celebrates the peregrinations accomplished in the Dreamtime by the ancestors of her clan: the Tingari Men. The Tingari are a group of spiritual beings who roamed vast tracts of the country, performing rituals and creating and shaping special sitesThey, accompanied by their wives and apprentices, roamed the Great Australian Desert founding sacred sites at each stage of a labyrinthine journey mapped in this work. In this work, Georges Tjapaltjarri evokes the ‘Malliera’, initiation ceremonies for young men involving Waru (fire sticks) represented by the red stripes across the canvasAs the events associated with the Tingari cycle are of a secret and sacred nature, no further details have been given.