Minyma Tingari 2001 by Ningura Napurrula, 41x41cm Cat 6645NN

"Minyma Tingari 2001" by Ningura Napurrula is one of two complementary paintings that depict an important cultural narrative. This artwork features two large black ovals symbolising a dancing board. Women, represented by U-shapes, are depicted dancing in a ceremony for Water Dreaming. The rockholes on her ancestral country, Wirrulnga, east of Kiwirrkurra, are illustrated as roundels, with soft yellow ochre colors representing the ochre worn on the breasts and shoulders during the ceremony.

Her talent was further recognised with a site-specific commission for the ceiling of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, and her artwork featured on Australian postage stamps in 2003. She was also named one of the 50 Most Collectable artists by Australian Art Collector Magazine in 2007 and 2008. The Tingari Cycle, a secret and sacred aspect of her work, involves ancestral travels and rituals that shaped the land, preserved in song cycles essential to Pintupi cultural teachings.