Fred Ward

Lurrun is a rockhole north of Patjarr Community in the Gibson Desert. Tingarri groups of men and women, travelling in the same direction east, but in separate groups stopped at this site before travelling to Wirrintjunku, another water place. Then they continued towards Tjukurla, where many people were gathering. Tingarri: Song cycle depicting the route of dreamtime people who travelled from the sea near Port Hedland to the northern part of the central desert. It also refers to the route and to the dreamtime people who followed that route (source: Ngaanyatjarra to English Dictionary: IAD Press). This painting was first exhibited at Desert Mob 2008 as catalogue number KAY06 at the Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs. It was subsequently bought by Art Mob and exhibited in one of the earliest exhibitions of far Western Desert art in “Papulankutja & Patjarr Paintings” at Art Mob in April 2009, followed by “Art Mob’s Canning Stock Route Show” in September 2010 and “Emma’s Choice 2010” in August 2010.