Tingari Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen Janmarda (bush onions)

Janmarda (bush onions)

Using only two or three colours on a background field of connected dots which

in the Northern Territory

and to bind cuts

Australian National Gallery

Tingari Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen Janmarda (bush onions)Walala 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