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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: Simon Hogan, Twining

Simon Hogan Australian, Pitjantjatjara, b. 1930

Twining
acrylic on linen
110 x 91 cm
821666
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Nyangatja ngura ini Tjining ka Tjukurpa wanampi kutjara ka minyma wanampi munu tjiti wanampi ka minyma Broomelanguru Tjininglakutu ngurangka pitjangu Ka panya minymangku tjitji pikati pungangka ka iluntananu. Ka minyma...
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Nyangatja ngura ini Tjining ka Tjukurpa wanampi kutjara ka minyma wanampi munu tjiti wanampi ka minyma Broomelanguru Tjininglakutu ngurangka pitjangu Ka panya minymangku tjitji pikati pungangka ka iluntananu. Ka minyma wanampi kwari ninyanyi.
This place is called Tjining and there is a creation story for here.It is the two water serpents. There were two water serpents living in the rockhole one older women and one young boy. The women had come from Broome all the way to Tjining. The two water serpents started fighting. The older women hit the young boy and killed him. The women serpent is still here in the water.
Mr Hogan is the owner of Tjining, an important rockhole in the east of Spinifex country that is part of a powerful Wanampi (Water Snake) story that comes through and runs to Waluwalutjara. At Tjining, shown in the painting as both a camp and a rockhole, lives an especially powerful Wanampi. This Wanampi travels through Tjawarl-Tjawarl and ends up in Kayanyii and is pursued by those who feel capable of ‘taking’ his magic. Spinifex people well know that this Wanampi is too strong for that and thus he remains a powerful and active snake in that place.
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