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Untitled This painting depicts the artist’s Country, where she and her sisters and fellow artists May Wokka Chapman and Nyanjilpayi Nancy Chapman lived and camped as children. Mulyatingki and her family walked extensively through this area with their extended family during pujiman (traditional, desert-dwelling) times.

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Minyipuru (Jakulyukulyu, Seven Sisters) The term Jukurrpa is often translated in English as the ‘dreaming’, or ‘dreamtime’. It refers generally to the period in which the world was created by ancestral beings, who assumed both human and nonhuman forms. These beings shaped what had been a formless landscape; creating waters, Read more…

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Untitled This work portrays an area known to the artist, painted here from memory. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) era one’s survival depended on their intimate knowledge of the location of resources; thus physical elements of Country, such as sources of kapi (water), tali (sandhills), and different varieties of Read more…

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