Tingari Dreaming Nancy-napanangka--gibson-tag Art Gallery of South Australia

Art Gallery of South Australia

The bush leaf grows in a swamp near sandhills close to the Utopia region

with the Tingari men

Each brushstroke reflects not only the beauty of her country but also the stories and traditions passed down through generations

a remote Aboriginal community located 290 km from Alice Springs in the NT of Australia

Tingari Dreaming Nancy-napanangka--gibson-tag Art Gallery of South AustraliaWalala is well known for his paintings of the Tingari Cycle. The Tingari Cycle, an important Dreaming for the Pintupi Aboriginal people, is a series of sacred and mythological song cycles which describe the epic journey of the Ancestors in the Dreamtime (Tjukurrpa) as they travelled through the land creating particular sites and teaching Aboriginal law. In 1996, encouraged by his brother Warlimpirrnga, Walala developed his own unique and boldIly