Ronnie Tjampitjimpa

Ronnie Tjampintjinpa was one of the founding members of Papunya Tula’s first group of Aboriginal painters. He belongs to the style of artists originally from Kintore. This pictorial style favours a very austere geometry bordering on abstraction. Here, Ronnie Tjampintjinpa depicts the dreams and stories of the Tingari, which he has inherited from his ancestors. The Tingari are the Great Ancestors of the Dreamtime, who moved to the Australian continent and created the sacred sites protected by the Aborigines. He paints the sacred site of Pilkinya, where an old Tingari man comes to rest in the Dreamtime.