Tjumpo Tjapanangka

Painted for Warlayirti Artists, Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills), 2003 (Warlayirti Artists catalogue number 890/03)

Private Collection, acquired from the above

This painting is sold with a copy of the original Warlayirti Artists documentation with the descriptive notes that read:

"This painting depicts part of the Water Dreaming story, associated with Tjumpo's traditional country. This country is located south of Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert and centred around the vast salt lake Wilkinkarra (Lake McKay). The country depicted here is known a Marlboree, named after the tjurrnu or soakwater depicted in the lower corner of the painting. This soakwater is known a inta, or living water, as it always contains good water."

The network of line depict the vast underground water channel which feed into this tjurrnu. This painting also depicts the travel of the Wati Kutjarra (two goanna men), who travelled the country during the Tjukurrpa. The many campsites of the Wati Kutjarra are seen in this painting including the oval shape in the central section and the prominent hook shapes.

Cf. For another closely related example painted in the same year and of the same size, see Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia's Remote Aboriginal Communities: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Melbourne, 2008, p. 134 (illus.), and Beyond Sacred: Australian Aboriginal Art: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, edition II, Melbourne, 2011, p. 146 (illus.).