This painting depicts the claypans of the water soakage area of Kirrimalunya on the Country of the artist's father which is to the north of Kiwurrkura in Western Australia. There was water  in this area and it was used by the Tingari Men as they travelled through the area, headed to Kaakuratintja (Lake McDonald) where Tingari rituals were held. The lines in the painting are representative of the sand dunes and the colour blocked area, water soakages.

The Tingari Men were ancestral beings who travelled over the Western Desert forming the land and creating rituals. They were followed by initiated novices who were taught laws and ceremonies and also followed by women and children . The travels of the Tingari are recounted in a multitude of song cycles but most knowledge and business of the Tingari remain in a highly secretive domain, privy only to senior men of the appropriate level of society and cannot be disclosed or recounted.

Along travels of the Tingari, ceremonies were held, adventures and adversity were experienced, often resulting in the creation of various sites and topographical features. The more public songs and stories provide valuable instruction for survival and navigating the desert, gathering and preparing of bush foods.

AWARDS
2004 - The Wynne Landscape Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales

COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Victoria

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Museum of Victoria, Melbourne

Art Gallery of South Australia                             

Artbank    

Groninger Museum, Groningen

Robert Holmes à Court Collection, Perth

Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin

Kaplan Levi Collection, Seattle, USA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 George Ward Tjungurrayi, Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery, Sydney
2005 George Ward Tjungurrayi, Clarence Gallery, London
1998 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1997 Utopia Art, Sydney, Sydney

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Pintupi Masters - Enduring Dreamings, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Matches 6: Three clusters, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
Pintupi Artists of the Western Desert, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA
2017 Community VIII, Utopia Art Sydney
2015 Community VII, Utopia Art, Sydney
Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
Wynners, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2013 Community V, Utopia Art Sydney
2012 Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Community IV: Celebrating Forty Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney
Unique Perspectives: Papunya Tula Artists and the Alice Springs Community, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
2011 40 years of Papunya Tula Art, Utopia Art, Sydney
Papunya Tula Artists, Community III, Utopia Art, Sydney
2010 Ngurra Kutju Ngurrara, Belonging To One Country, RedDot Gallery, Singapore
2009 Community, The Heart of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney
2008 David Larwill and the Western Desert Artists, Stephan Weiss Studio, New York
Aboriginal Art 2008, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2007 Papunya Tula, Short Street Gallery, Broome
Big Paintings by Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney
Turning 20, Utopia Art, Sydney
Aboriginal Art 2007, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
Master Work From Papunya Tula, Birrung Gallery, Sydney
Pintupi Art 2007, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide
Pintupi Mixed Exhibition, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
2006 Chefs d’oeuvres - Maîtres du Désert, Galerie DAD, Mantes La Jolie, France Pintupi Dreamtime, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore A Particular Collection, Utopia Art, Sydney Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Western Desert Satellites, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Right Here, Right Now: Recent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Acquisitions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Papunya Tula Artists 2006, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Across the Board, Utopia Art, Sydney
Pintupi, Hamiltons Gallery, London
Bits and Pieces, Utopia Art, Sydney
Aboriginal Art 2006, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2006 Papunya Tula Artists - Recent Paintings, Harriet Place, Darwin
Paintings by Papunya Tula Artists, Suzanne O'Connell Gallery, Brisbane
2005 Aboriginal Vision in Contemporary Australian Art, Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle, Collection of Margaret Levi & Robert Kaplan New Works From The Western Desert, Indigenart, Perth Pintupi Show, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney
Strongly and Stately, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
New Ideas 2005, Utopia Art, Sydney
Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Pintupi Art 2005, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide
Aboriginal Art 2005, Scott Livesey Gallery, Melbourne
Papunya Tula - New Paintings From The Kintore Kiwirrkurra Region, John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour
2004 Papunya Tula - Selected Paintings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
Depth of Field - Anamorphosis, Utopia Art, Sydney
Pintupi Art 2004, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide
Works from Kintore and Kiwirrkurra, Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne
All About Papunya, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
Talking About Abstraction, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Sydney
Aboriginal Art 2004, Scott Livesey Gallery, Melbourne
Ma Yung/ Pass It On, Framed Gallery, Darwin
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
Papunya Tula Artists 2004, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
2003 Papunya Tula Artists - A Gift from the Desert, Utopia Art, Sydney Papunya Tula Selected Paintings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
Ab Op II, Utopia Art, Sydney The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
Kintore-Kiwirrkurra, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Pintupi Art From The Western Desert, Indigenart, Perth
Masterpieces of the Western Desert, Gavin Graham Gallery, London
2002 Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
2001 Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Kintore and Kiwirrkurra, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
2000
Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art of the Aborigines, Leverkusen, Germany Pintupi Men, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs 1999 Aboriginal Art, IHK, Wurzburg, Germany
1998 The Desert Mob Show, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs
1997
Geschichtenbilder, Aboriginal Art Galerie Buhr, Speyer, Germany
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1996
Nangara, The Australian Aboriginal Art Exhibition, Brugge
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1995
Dreamings - Tjukurrpa, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Germany 1991 Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs, Australia
1990 Friendly Country - Friendly People, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
1990 The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, Canada