Artiste : Ray James Jangala

Titre de l'œuvre : Rockhole site of Mukula ( Ancestral storie of Tingari cycle)

Format : 91 x 61 cm

Provenance et certificat : centre d'art aborigene de Papunya Tula Artists

Référence de cette peinture aborigène : RJ1404076

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Ray James Tjangala (1958) was born at Yunala rockhole, west of Kiwirrkura. He is the son of Anatjari Tjampitjinpa, one of the original Papunya Tula artists, and Tjungkaya Napangati. Tjangala was encountered by Jeremy Long's Northern Territory Welfare Branch patrols in 1963 at Wudungunya rockhole north-west of Puntujarrpa (Jupiter Well). The family subsequently moved to Papunya in April 1964 where Tjangala attended school. By the late 1990s he had moved further west to Kiwirrkura and this return to his home country, along with the passing of many of the senior artists, invigorated his art, making him one of the most recognisable artists of Papunya Tula.

Generally, the Tingari are a group of ancestral beings of the Dreaming who travelled over vast stretches of the country, performing rituals and creating and shaping particular sites. The Tingari men were usually followed by Tingari women and were accompanied by novices, and their travels and adventures are enshrined in a number of song cycles. These ancestral stories form part of the teachings of the post initiatory youths today as well as providing explanations for contemporary customs.

Les œuvres de l’artiste figurent dans les prestigieuses collections suivantes :

Flinders University Art Museum.
Art Gallery of New South Wales.
National Gallery of Victoria.
Art Gallery of South Australia.
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands.
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
National Gallery of Australia.
Toledo Musuem of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA.
Voituron Collection, Belgium.