Artiste : Wingu Tingima

Titre de l'œuvre : Minyma Kutjara Dreaming stories

Format : 100 × 90 cm

Provenance et certificat : centre d'art aborigène de Tjungu Palya

Référence de cette peinture aborigène : 11509

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Explications pour cette peinture d'art Aborigène :

Wingu Tingima was born in the late 1910s or early 1920s (she died 8 March 2010). She was an Aboriginal artist from central Australia. She was born in Great Victoria Desert, and grew up living a traditional way of life in the bush, without any contact with Western civilization. A member of the Pitjantjatjara people, she painted spiritual stories from her Dreaming. Along with her friend and colleague Eileen Yaritja Stevens, Wingu became one of the most well-known artists to paint in the style of the Western Desert.

Although she only began painting less than 10 years before her death, Wingu's work is now held in many of Australia's major art collections, including the National Gallery of Australia and the state galleries of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

In this artwork she is dealing about Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa (the crea􀆟on story of the two sisters). The big sister was travelling with her younger sister back to their homeland. The little sister was reluctant to head further and further north as she had been living with a different family near the ocean to the south. She had been lost for a long 􀆟me and was unfamiliar with the landscape the big sister was showing her.

Eventually the older sister gave her a piggyback and tried to comfort her. She continued to teach her all about the country they travelled through. Some􀆟mes when they stopped they performed Inma (sacred singing and dancing). They camped at Punuwara and Irrunytju rockhole before heading further north to Docker River.

Her artworks are in the following prestigious collections :
Art Gallery of Western Australia,
The Art Gallery of South Australia,
The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory,
Art Gallery of New South Wales,
The National Gallery of Victoria,
The National Gallery of Australia,
The Australian National University…