These new works on paper by Jimmy Tjapangarti Tchooga, a Warlpiri/Ngarti man from Wirrimanu (Balgo) in the Tanami Desert, grow directly from the artist’s engagement with the Birrundudu Drawings – 810 crayon drawings made in 1945 by sixteen Aboriginal men on a remote NT cattle station; hidden, until recently, for eighty years.
Working as a cultural adviser on the project, the artist was moved to create his own suite of drawings tracing the songline journey of the Luurnpa, the Kingfisher ancestor of the Wirrimanu region.
Outstation Gallery
22 May to 6 June 2026
Northern Territory
Jimmy Tjapangarti Tchooga, Waringarri & Luurnpa Drawing Series (detail), 2024, oil pastel on paper, 76.2 × 50.8cm / Courtesy the artist and Outstation Gallery, Northern Territory
