Artist | WINGU TINGIMA (dec)

Artist | WINGU TINGIMA (dec)


Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by WINGU TINGIMA of Tjungu Palya Artists. The title is Kungkarrakalpa. [06249] (Acrylic on Canvas)

WINGU TINGIMA (dec)

Kungkarrakalpa

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by WINGU TINGIMA of Tjungu Palya Artists. The title is Kuru Ala. [NKUWT04268] (Acrylic on Canvas)

WINGU TINGIMA (dec)

Kuru Ala

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by WINGU TINGIMA of Tjungu Palya Artists. The title is Minyma Tjutaku Inma. [PB3-39/40] (Silkscreen Print - Edition of 40)

WINGU TINGIMA (dec)

Minyma Tjutaku Inma

Wingu was born at a rockhole called Nyumun, in the Western Desert of Western Australia in the 1920's.

"I didn't go to school I was a bush girl!" Later she travelled by foot with her mother and father to the mission at Ernabella, where she worked spinning sheep's wool to make things for the mission.

"I wasn't worrying to go home because I was happy at the mission".

Today Wingu lives at Nyapari in South Australia and Irrunytju in Western Australia, spending time with her two families.

Her works feature in major public and private collections.

Wingu is a respected senior woman with much cultural knowledge and paints Tjukurpa associated with her counrty.

The place of her birth is a sacred men’s place WalawuruTjukurpa eagle creation story, which she can paint, but not talk about.

The majority of her paintings are from the Kungkarrakalpa Tjukurpa (Seven Sisters creation story).

Kuru Ala one of the major sites she depicts is an important and sacred women’s place.

Wingu tells part of the story “ This is Kuru Ala a sacred place for the Kungkarrakalpa Seven Sisters’ story.

Kangkuru munu Malanypa nyinanyi the older sister is sitting with her younger sister.

They are sitting near the cave, they are living in.

One man, wati Nyiiru, was watching all the young girls.

He was trying to get one of the sisters to be his wife, but they didn’t want that old man.

The sisters were going into kuru Ala and they saw a quandong tree.

They all rushed in for the quandongs.

“This isn’t really quandongs” they said after tasting them, “must be that wati Nyiiru trying to trick us!” They were running and hiding from him and ran into the cave.

Nyiiru was a ngankari magician and he turned himself into many things, travelling above the ground and below the earth as he chased after the women”.

Located about 100kms south of Uluru, Nyapari is set at the base of the majestic Mann Ranges in the heart of country traditionally owned by the Pitjantjatjara people.

These ranges known to Anangu as Murputja, likening the mountain to the bony ridge of a person’s spine, are the source of many water holes and traditional camping places.

The homelands of Kanpi, Nyapari, Angatja, Umpukulu and Tjankanu have grown from these seasonal camping places into permanent settlements.

Over fifty artists from Murputja joined together with family members living in traditional country 180kms to the south at Watarru and created Tjungu Palya (Good Together).

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Wingu was born at a rockhole called Nyumun, in the Western Desert of Western Australia in the 1920's.

"I didn't go to school I was a bush girl!" Later she travelled by foot with her mother and father to the mission at Ernabella, where she worked spinning sheep's wool to make things for the mission.

"I wasn't worrying to go home because I was happy at the mission".

Today Wingu lives at Nyapari in South Australia and Irrunytju in Western Australia, spending time with her two families.

Her works feature in major public and private collections.

Wingu is a respected senior woman with much cultural knowledge and paints Tjukurpa associated with her counrty.

The place of her birth is a sacred men’s place WalawuruTjukurpa eagle creation story, which she can paint, but not talk about.

The majority of her paintings are from the Kungkarrakalpa Tjukurpa (Seven Sisters creation story).

Kuru Ala one of the major sites she depicts is an important and sacred women’s place.

Wingu tells part of the story “ This is Kuru Ala a sacred place for the Kungkarrakalpa Seven Sisters’ story.

Kangkuru munu Malanypa nyinanyi the older sister is sitting with her younger sister.

They are sitting near the cave, they are living in.

One man, wati Nyiiru, was watching all the young girls.

He was trying to get one of the sisters to be his wife, but they didn’t want that old man.

The sisters were going into kuru Ala and they saw a quandong tree.

They all rushed in for the quandongs.

“This isn’t really quandongs” they said after tasting them, “must be that wati Nyiiru trying to trick us!” They were running and hiding from him and ran into the cave.

Nyiiru was a ngankari magician and he turned himself into many things, travelling above the ground and below the earth as he chased after the women”.

Located about 100kms south of Uluru, Nyapari is set at the base of the majestic Mann Ranges in the heart of country traditionally owned by the Pitjantjatjara people.

These ranges known to Anangu as Murputja, likening the mountain to the bony ridge of a person’s spine, are the source of many water holes and traditional camping places.

The homelands of Kanpi, Nyapari, Angatja, Umpukulu and Tjankanu have grown from these seasonal camping places into permanent settlements.

Over fifty artists from Murputja joined together with family members living in traditional country 180kms to the south at Watarru and created Tjungu Palya (Good Together).

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