Wingu Tingima

Wingu Tingima was a revered senior Anangu artist whose life and practice remained deeply bound to her birthplace of Nyumum, near Kuru Ala, one of the most significant sites of the Seven Sisters (Kungkarrakalpa) Tjukurrpa. The stories and teachings of this epic ancestral drama shaped her worldview from childhood, guided by the women who instructed her in law, ceremony, carving, and the intricate skills of spinning hair for ceremonial regalia. After her family travelled to Ernabella Mission, Tingima worked with Ernabella Arts, adapting traditional fibre practices into the centre’s early craft programs.

Following the death of her husband, she returned west to be closer to her Country, later helping to form Irrunytju Arts and eventually Tjungu Palya in Nyapari. Tingima’s paintings carry an unmistakable sense of terrain and ceremony: warm tonal fields, rhythmic linear structures and dense constellations of dots that evoke both inma body designs and the enduring presence of her ancestral lands.

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