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This body of work emerged from my return to my bush property following the recent Victorian fires. Rather than depicting the visible aftermath of fire, I found myself drawn to something less obvious – the feeling that the land had changed in ways that were difficult to articulate…… Continue reading
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152 x 121 cm
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183 x 244 cm
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90 x 90 cm
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183 x 243 cm
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122 x 91 cm
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152 x 91 cm
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Acrylic on Canvas
83 x 63 cm Framed
A$7,500 Buy NowBorn c 1964
Region Central and Western Desert
Thomas Tjapaltjarri (born c.1964) is a Pintupi artist from the Gibson Desert in Western Australia. He is one of the renowned “Pintupi Nine” – a family group who lived a traditional nomadic life in the Western Desert until making first contact with Western society after arriving at Kiwirrkurra in 1984.
Soon after settling in the community, Thomas began painting, drawing on the cultural knowledge and ancestral stories he had inherited while living on Country. His work forms part of the rich tradition of Western Desert art, expressing a profound connection to Pintupi law, ceremony and landscape.
His paintings explore the ancestral narratives of the Pintupi people, with a particular focus on the Tingari Cycle – a series of creation stories that trace the journeys of ancestral beings across Country. Inspired by ceremonial body painting, his compositions feature restrained palettes of black, white and ochre, alongside finely rendered dot work and simplified geometric forms. This distinctive style reflects the visual traditions shared by many Pintupi artists while expressing his own enduring connection to Country and culture.
Today, Thomas Tjapaltjarri’s paintings are held in significant public and private collections in Australia and internationally, and he is recognised as an important contemporary artist of the Western Desert tradition.
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