Tjamu Tjamu
Artist:
Bobby West Tjupurrula
(Indigenous Australian, born 1958)
Place made:Western Australia, Australia
General region:Oceania
Date: 2003
Medium: Acrylic on Belgian linen
Dimensions:
71 x 60 in. (180.3 x 152.4 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of the Lam Family
Object number: 2016.14.61
Copyright: © Bobby West Tjupurrula
Provenance: Sold through Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, to May Lam and Dr. Dorothy Lam; May Lam and Dr. Dorothy Lam, by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 2016
Label Text
These seemingly vibrating lines represent the artist’s country in the vicinity of Lake Gregory. In this area, there are miles and miles of expansive sand dunes interspersed with salt lakes, which are depicted here as concentrated white patches. As is common in a number of works in this exhibition, this painting refers to a stretch of land that ancestral beings (Tingari) traveled during the Dreaming.
Bobby West Tjupurrula’s father, Freddy West Tjakamarra (Pintupi, ca. 1935–1994), was one of the founding painters of the Western Desert painting movement at the Papunya Tula art center, and his sister Ningura Napurrula has two works also featured in this exhibition.
(Exhibition label, 2017)
Bobby West Tjupurrula’s father, Freddy West Tjakamarra (Pintupi, ca. 1935–1994), was one of the founding painters of the Western Desert painting movement at the Papunya Tula art center, and his sister Ningura Napurrula has two works also featured in this exhibition.
(Exhibition label, 2017)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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