Bambatu was married to Dini Campbell Tjampitjinpa (now deceased), a well-known and accomplished artist who painted the traditional dreamtime stories of the Tingarri. Bambatu worked closely with Dini as his assistant, and it was during this time she learned how to paint. After Dini's passing, Bambatu continued to paint the ceremonial journey's of her ancestral women. Her "Kungka Tjukurrpa" paintings depict the journey paths travelled from Wirrulunga, east of Kirwirrkurra, from Kintore to Mount Leibig and the Papunya regions. At each location, the women would stop, dance and sing the cycle of each sacred site. In Bambatu's paintings, the concentric circles represent waterholes, and the parallel dotted lines represent the path travelled.
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