WALTER BROWN
Tingarri
Region: Pilbara
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 71cm (h) x 76cm (w)
Price: $1,275
Artwork Description:
“The painting represent the Tingari cycle, based around yendemu area. IT was really hot and fire. Them two men, sing out, made a ngari wenYt really hot and you know, big fire. went to uendemu, turned around south the kintore way, they was just looking around. I don’t know what they was looking for. it went to the lake mckay, straight up and there and he wanted to make a fire to he could make the other rain to make them cool. They makd a rain and then it drop. This painting shows the part of the Tingari Cycle where they’re making the rain. This is one of three very important Tjurrpra that I’m doing.” – Walter Brown
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ARTIST BIO
Walter Jangala Brown was born in 1977 in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in the NT of Australia. He comes from a long line of artists including Pintupi artist Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, a highly acclaimed painter and founder of the Papunya Tula Artists group. Walter went to Yirara College, an Aboriginal boarding college in Alice Springs.
He began painting for Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu in 2007. He paints his father’s Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming); Warna Jukurrpa (Snake Dreaming); and Yumari Jukurrpa (a collection of rocks located to the west of Kintore in the Gibson Desert). He also paints his grandfather’s Tingari Cycle. These dreamings relate directly to his land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it.
