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A study of the Figurative in Desert painting: Figurative painting from the desert

Past exhibition
21 June - 18 August 2013
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ginger Wikilyiri, Manta, Tali munu 1 Tjanpiku Ngura

Ginger Wikilyiri Australian, Pitjantjatjara, b. c. 1932

Manta, Tali munu 1 Tjanpiku Ngura
acrylic on linen
150 x 200 cm
821645
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This country is around Nyapari and Kunamata. In the tali (sand dune) country there are three panakura (desert death adders). They are dangerous. In the spinifex grass area the tintinpa...
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This country is around Nyapari and Kunamata. In the tali (sand dune) country there are three panakura (desert death adders). They are dangerous. In the spinifex grass area the tintinpa lives. He's coming up at night out of the grass and singing "tin tin tin tin!" The kuyi (blind snake) has a piti here (his home in the ground). He came out to look for kuka (meat) and went back the wrong way. In the red earth the lukupupu (lion ant beetle) has made his home. He travels in a spiral down into the earth and leaves a circular mark on the ground. The three emu's have just met. One is travelling alone and asked the other two" Where's you home, your Tjukurpa?" They replied " We're from Kulpitjara". The other emu is from Kalayapiti, Watarru munkara (the other side of Watarru).
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