Ronnie Tjampitjinpa "Tingari"

Size: 358 x 181 Acrylics on Linen Canvas, Year 2003, Ronnie is now one of the last founding members of Papunya Tula Artists, His career spans more than 40 years. A Pintupi artist, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa was one of the youngest men to begin painting at Papunya in 1971 and one of the founders of the hugely influential Papunya Tula Artists group. Under the tutelage of luminary artist Uta Uta Tjangala, and with the encouragement of school teacher Geoffrey Bardon, Tjampitjinpa shared stories of his distant homelands through his artworks. The travels of the Tingari – a group of ancestral beings who travelled over vast stretches of the Western Desert – form the basis of Tjampitjinpa’s work. His art offers evolving interpretations of the Tingari, whilst adhering to their codes of reference. Tjampitjinpa himself spent his early years travelling this country, obtaining intimate knowledge of the landscape. Collections British Museum, London Musee du quai Branly, Paris, France Musee des Arts Africans et Oceaniens, Paris Donald Kahn Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Supreme Court of Northern Territory, Darwin The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth Owen and Wagner Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands Kluge Ruhe Collection, University of Virginia Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs Artbank, Sydney Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Campbelltown Medibank Private Collection Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo Flinders University Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane Groninger Museum, The Netherlands Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge James D. Wolfensohn Collection, New York Macquarie Group Collection Allen, Allen & Hemsley Moree Plains Gallery Collection, Moree Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt Gambier Sammlung Essl, Vienna Sammlung Klein, Eberdingen Kaplan and Levi Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo University of Wollongong Victorian Arts Centre Trust, Melbourne Hank Ebes Collection, Melbourne The Luczo Family Collection, USA Parliament House Collection, Canberra