Tingari Cycle, 2005 by Barney Campbell Tjakamarra 91x61cm 9667BC

Tingari Cycle, 2005 by Barney Campbell Tjakamarra

The paintings by Barney Campbell possess a maze of sinuous lines. Such iconography is profoundly reminiscent of ceremonial body designs and traditional ground drawings. The most common subject depicted in Barney’s paintings is that of the Tingari Cycle. Since events associated with the Tingari Cycle are of a secret and sacred nature few details are given.

Barney Campbell Tjakamarra is of the Ngaanyatjarra and Pintupi language group, born circa 1928 at Kaylilwarra south Warbuton in the Gibson Desert of Western Australia.