Untitled (Tjintjintjin) 2006

Walangkura Napanangka was among the first women painters to join the Western Desert painting movement, participating in the historic Minyma Tjukurrpa (women’s lore) Canvas Project at Kintore/Haasts Bluff in 1994. Many of the women involved, including Napanangka, went on to paint with Papunya Tula, where their densely layered iconography brought an entirely new tactile sensibility to the movement that began with their Countrymen two decades earlier.

Untitled (Tjintjintjin) depicts the rockhole and cave site of Tjintjintjin, to the west of Walungurru (Kintore) in Western Australia. The symbols in this painting map out the area's geographical features, through which ancestor figure Kutungka Napanangka passed on her travels across the Gibson Desert during the creation time.