WILLY TJUGURRAYI

Language:   Pintupi
Region:   Papunya/Kintore (Northern Territory)
Date of Birth:  c1930

Content: Willy is renowned for painting stories from the Tingari Dreaming Song Cycle and the land around Haast’s Bluff, Lake Mackay and Lake McDonald.  Some of the Tingari stories are depicted by concentric circles linked by parallel lines with the spaces between them filled with bright colours.  Willy also paints wavy lines across a canvas filled with dots which represent the sandhills and a fierce hailstorm that killed ancestral Tingari men during the Dreamtime.

Selected Collections:

• Art Gallery of NSW
• Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
• The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA
• Artbank, Sydney

Selected Exhibitions:

• 2004 Papunya Tula Artists
• 2004 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne