Untitled, 2006, Martin Tjampitjinpa
Acrylic on canvas, 61cm x 55cm
Provenance: Mossgreen, Melbourne.
The son of the founding member of Papunya Tula Artists Uta Uta Tjangala, Martin Tjampitjinpa painted sites of significance and sections of the Tingari song cycle which were also regularly depicted in his father's paintings, such as Muyinga, Ngurrapulangu and Umari. His paintings are rare histories from another generation. Tjampitjinpa did not paint prolifically. His irregular contortions of concentric squares and circles sit poised in defiance of the flat surface of the canvas, echoing the deep, irregular incisions once made on stone and on the patterned contours of wood (1).