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Wingu Tingima (c.1920–2010)
"Kungkarrakalpa"
110x203cm - 2006
Acrylic on linen
Aboriginal art
Provenance:
Certificate of authenticity from arts centre
Biography
Wingu Tingima (c.1920–2010) was an elder woman of the Pitjantjatjara people from the Great Victoria Desert, a vast area in southern Central Australia.
She grew up in a semi-nomadic tradition near her birthplace, Nyumun, close to the rock hole of Kuru Ala, in what is now Western Australia.
Wingu described herself as a bush girl who had no contact with Europeans until her family, driven by severe drought and atomic testing in the region, moved to the Ernabella mission. There, Wingu lived and worked, spinning and weaving wool.
It was at Ernabella that she met Eileen Yaritja Stevens, who became her lifelong friend and fellow painter.
When the community of Irrunytju was established in the 1980s, Wingu returned to live closer to her ancestral country.
At that time, she was in her seventies, but quickly became one of the most prominent artists of Irrunytju Arts (established in 2001). As her friend Eileen had settled in Nyapari, Wingu lived between the two communities and also painted for Tjungu Palya Artists. The two families were close and were connected by a marriage between two of their children.
Theme:
The rock hole of Kuru Ala (Wingu’s birthplace) is a sacred site for the Seven Sisters, Kungkarrakalpa, and is central to many of Wingu’s paintings. Kungkarrakalpa is a multilayered epic of pursuit and creation.
During the Dreaming, the Sisters were fleeing from the old man Wati Nyliru, a sorcerer (Ngankurri) who knew how to change things and deceive them. They rested near the rock hole while he stealthily transformed himself into a living tree.
When the Sisters tasted the fruit, they sensed something was strange. They suspected it was the sorcerer and continued their escape. Eventually, they flew into the sky to get away from him and became the Pleiades constellation, while he slithered like a snake.
The story has many layers, each carrying specific spiritual meanings that are embedded in the work, giving it a compelling immediacy. Her Kungkarrakalpa paintings were selected as finalists for the NATSIA Awards in 2003, 2006, and 2008.
Wingu, reserved and thoughtful, spoke in a rhythmic, almost oracular voice, while Eileen, exuberant and effusive, often seemed larger than life (Nicholas Rothwell). Their success allowed them to become financial pillars of their families, and they passed on their artistic skills to several of their grandchildren.
Wingu’s works are now held in international and Australian galleries as well as many private collections.
She was often included in historic exhibitions such as “I Have a Dream,” a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. held in New York in 2009, one year before her death.
She was regarded as a master of color, instinctively knowing how to create effects through layering and texture that made her work comparable to the depth and beauty of a star-filled desert sky.
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