“Completed just two years after Lungkarta began creating small works on board, Tingarri Ceremony at Ilingawurngawurrnga is highly representative of the dramatic development of Lungkarta’s practice. Access to relatively large substrates and new materials of the Papunya artists in their desire to experiment with new visual forms.

 Created during a time of intense ritual activity, this large masterful work depicts a camp of cultural novices as they prepare for ceremony. The billowing half circles reveal seated men as they gather to decorate the backs of ceremonial performers.

Tingarri ceremonies and designs are associated with the travels of a group of ancestral post-initiates and their instructors. The songs, dances and stories that record the travels and activity of Tingarri ancestors continues to inform the ceremonial lives of Pintupi men today.” (Vanessa Merlino and Luke Scholes, 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, 2023, p. 54)