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Birthdate: ca. 1950
Language Group: Pintupi
Kenny Williams Tjampitjinpa, son of the artist Naata Nungurrayi and younger brother of the artist Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, was born near Kiwirrkura. The family lived at first a nomadic existence in the region of Wilkinkarra and was brought in 1963 to Papunya by a government patrol, as part of a government program to put Aborigines in reservations. Later Kenny Williams Tjampitjinpa moved to Balgo on the northern edge of the Great Sandy Desert, where he lived near other Pintupi people who had also returned to the area. Much later, he returned to Papunya and in 1981 moved again north to Walungurru. Nowadays he lives together with his brother at Ininti. It was in 1988, while at Papunya, that he joined the artists cooperative Papunya Tula Artists and was for a time their spokesperson and leader.
Paintings
(No. 117) (Sold)Untitled, 1998
Acrylic on linen, 91 x 61 cm
This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole and spring water site of Wala Wala, just west of the Kiwirrkura community. In mythological times a group of Pili Pili (Eagle-Hawk) hunted here, catching a kangaroo and carrying it south. This story forms part of the Tingari Cycle. Since events associated with the Tingari Cycle are of a secret nature, no further detail was given. The Tingari are figures out of the tjukurrpa who travelled over vast stretches of the country, performing rituals and creating and shaping particular sites. The Tingari men were usually accompanied by novices and followed by Tingari women. Their travels and adventures are preserved in a number of song cycles which form part of the teachings of post-initiation youths as well as providing explanations for contemporary customs. (Copyright of image remains by Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd, PO Box 282, Cammeray, NSW 2062, Australia)
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