Tjintu

Artist: Ronnie Allen
Community: Kaltukatjara (Docker River)
Acrylic on Canvas
82.0 X 121.0cm
2007

This Tjukurpa is for a place called Walka and relates to Ronnie’s traditional ancestral country around Kaltukatjara (Docker River) in the south west of the Northern Territory. It is a heavily coded reference to sacred and restricted men’s Law: Watiku Tjukurpa. ‘Tjintu is the sun which he has painted in one corner.

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