Raymond Maxwell Tjampitjinpa

Kaakurutintjinya

2020

In the Tjukurrpa, a large group of ancestral men known as the Tingarri ancestors camped at Kaakurutintjinya (Lake Macdonald) before traveling east. This place is connected to a Tjukurrpa narrative involving a quoll, a small brown marsupial with white spots.

Language Group: Pintupi
Date: Born 1955

Raymond Maxwell Tjampitjinpa was born at Haast Bluff and is the son of George (Maxwell) Tjangala, an early shareholder of Papunya Tula Artists. In Raymond’s early life, he assisted his father with paintings. He later began experimenting with painting in 1985 and started painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1999.

RAYMOND MAXWELL TJAMPITJINPA, Kaakurutintjinya, 2020

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas. 24 × 21 5/8 in. (61 × 55 cm). Commissioned by Richard Klingler and Jane Slatter for Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu | Past and Present Together.

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