Mulyatingki Marney | National Museum of Australia

Portrait of Mulyatingki Marney. - click to view larger image

born about 1941, Manyjilyjarra language group, Karimarra skin group, Punmu community, Martumili Artists

Mulyatingki was born at Nyinyiri near the Canning Stock Route and grew up in Karlamilyi. The first time her family saw white people there, they hid in a cave until nightfall.

In 1966 she and her family walked into Balfour Downs station. They were one of the last families to leave the desert.

In 1982 Mulyatingki relocated to Punmu, where she now lives with her sisters, Ngarnjapayi Nancy and May Chapman. Their brother is Bidyadanga artist Jawarta Donald Moko.

A textured acrylic painting on canvas with lots of ovals with dotted edges in the top half of the painting and four vertical stripe filled shapes in the lower half. Most of the ovals are burgundy with a light pink or green-beige edge on a burgundy background. However at the centre right edge there are ovals in green, brown, and pink with a yellow dotted background. Amongst the ovals are several oblong, semicircle and curved shapes in burgundy with white dotted edges. The shapes at the bottom of the painting have dotted vertical stripes in orange, red, yellow, green, beige, white, burgundy and lavender. At the right edge there are two paint marks that look like dog paw prints in black and white. - click to view larger image — *Pangkapini, Minyipuru*

A multicoloured dot painting on canvas with a brown-white circle just above the centre. The circle is surrounded by vertical dotted lines in white, red, orange, green, yellow, grey, blue, green and black, which bend slightly at the right side of the painting. - click to view larger image — *Lowulowuku Yinta*

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Jawarta Donald Moko

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Ngurrara: The Great Sandy Desert Canvas

Warlpiri Drawings

Warakurna

Yidaki: Didjeridu and the Sound of Australia

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