Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Rocky Outcrops at Ungarla
Jap 019921 | acrylic on linen | 122 x 61 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies
Jap 019922 | acrylic on linen | 112 x 61 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies
Jap 019939 | acrylic on linen | 122 x 122 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies
Jap 019967 | acrylic on linen | 46 x 46 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies / Diptych
Jap 019960 | acrylic on linen | 62 x 61 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies
Jap 019940 | acrylic on linen | 122 x 122 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies
Jap 019938 | acrylic on linen | 122 x 91 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies / Diptych
Jap 019924 | acrylic on linen | 198 x 122 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Rockholes and Malliera
Jap 019945 | acrylic on linen | 152 x 76 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Rocky Outcrops at Ungarla
Jap 019923 | acrylic on linen | 198 x 61 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Untitled
Jap 019926 | acrylic on linen | 153 x 51 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Tingari Cycle
Jap 019946 | acrylic on linen | 198 x 61 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Snake Dreaming
Jap 019913 | acrylic on linen | 76 x 104 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies
Jap 019965 | acrylic on linen | 41 x 41 cm
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Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Rockholes at Ungarla
Jap 019934 | acrylic on linen | 130 x 122 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Rockholes at Ungarla
Jap 019943 | acrylic on linen | 91 x 91 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies
Jap 019929 | acrylic on linen | 61 x 61 cm
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Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Tingari Cycle
Jap 019918 | acrylic on linen | 91 x 91 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies
Jap 019931 | acrylic on linen | 152 x 122 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Tingari Cycle
Jap 019932 | acrylic on linen | 152 x 112 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies
Jap 019952 | acrylic on linen | 61 x 31 cm
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Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies
Jap 019933 | acrylic on linen | 198 x 122 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies
Jap 019955 | acrylic on linen | 41 x 41 cm
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Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies
Jap 019949 | acrylic on linen | 61 x 31 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Tingari Cycle
Jap 019958 | acrylic on linen | 60 x 30 CM
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies
Jap 019953 | acrylic on linen | 41 x 41 cm
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Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies / Triptych
Jap 019969 | acrylic on linen | 123 x 41 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri | Malliera Ceremonies
Jap 019944 | acrylic on linen | 152 x 31 cm
Dr George Tjapaltjarri (c1930- 2017) was born in country south west of Jupiter Well in the Gibson Desert of Western Australia. He is one of Australia’s most distinguished Aboriginal artists, and was one of the elders right at the beginning when a group of elders paintned the boards at Papunya in the early 1970s.
His family language group was Pintupi/Luritja. The family first made contact with white settlements when they walked out from the desert in 1964.
Dr George was a traditional Aboriginal medicine man, a Ngangkari or Clever Man, and has worked with Kintore and Tjukurla medical clinics. His paintings reflect Tingari stories from his traditional country at Karrinwara, west of Kintore and Kilingya west of Jupiter Well. The artworks by Dr George possess a wonderful rawness and boldness, conveying his strong continuous association with traditional country and its ceremonies and body painting rituals. His subjects are the Tingari Cycle and Snake Dreaming.