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 Mary-Anne Mungatopi
Tiwi Language Group
Milikapiti, Melville Island,
Mary Anne Mungatopi comes from Karslake country on Melville Island, the larger of the two Tiwi Islands situated off the coast of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Her work depicts the body designs used in the Pukamani ceremony, the traditional Tiwi burial ceremony, one of the cornerstones of the Tiwi’s traditional belief.
Her art is also closely linked to stories of Purrukuparli, the Tiwi mythological ancestor and is characterised by a geometric structure of lines and dots, with every line and marking having an important meaning. These geometric patterns, common to most Tiwi art, often depict sites of stories of mythological significance involving ancestors who were changed into animals or birds. Each Tiwi artist has their own individual interpretation of the designs.
Since 1995 she has shown her work in group exhibitions in Australia, Europe and the USA.
Subjects and Themes
Fire and Crocodile
Collections
Fremantle City Council Collection, Western Australia
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Victoria
Toowoomba City Council Collection
Queensland University of Technology Art Collection
National Gallery of Australia
Group Exhibitions
1995 Jilamara Kapi Yurruka Manimpurrua (Designs on Long Canvas and Pukumani Poles), Alcaston House Gallery, Melbourne
1995 12th NATSIAA, MAGNT Darwin.
1996 Tiwi People from Melville Island, Anima Gallery Adelaide
1996 Masterpieces from Milikapiti Savode Gallery, Brisbane
1996 Etchings & Lino blocks from Melville Island, Australian Print Workshop Brunswick, Vic
1996 ACAFA No5 Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings Melbourne, Victoria
1996 Journey of the Birds, Raintree Fine Arts Galleries, Darwin
1997 Old Patterns, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
1997 Mamirnikuwi - Mob of Women, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Old Tiwi, Alcaston House Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Small Designs - Jewellery and Paintings, Savode Gallery, Brisbane
1997 Keeper of the Mimi Spirit, The October Gallery, London
1997 Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence, Italy.
1998 Gli Aborigeni Australiani Una Storia Forty Thousand Ani, Castello Sforenco, Milandeao Sale Viscontee, Italy
1997 Kartukuni Amintiya Jurra (Ironwood and Paper), Hogarth Gallery, Paddington, NSW
1998 The Old and the New, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT.
1998- 2000 One Thousand Journeys, Tin Sheds Gallery, Uni, NSW, Sydney & touring exhibition
1998 15th NATSIAA, MAGNT Darwin.
1998 The 23rd Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, WA
1998 Proof Positive: A Selection of Prints from the Archive of the Australian Print Workshop, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart City Council
1998 The Monaro, Show touring Northern Territory exhibition
1998- 2000 Armbands NT, Touring Exhibition
1998 The Cask - an Aussie Icon, Victoria Health Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria
1998 Group exhibition, Alcaston House, Melbourne Victoria
1998 Jilamara Mossenson Gallery, Subiaco WA
1998 Gantner - Myer Collection, California Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Fransisco USA to tour
1999 All About Art, Alcaston House Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Tiwi on Wood, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
1999 New Paintings from Milikapiti, Redback Gallery, Brisbane
1999 Impressions, Australian Print Workshop
1999 The Work of the Tiwi, Framed Gallery, Darwin
1999 Arukulunga Wunitak Thelma - Cyclone Thelma, Australian Print Workshop Melbourne
1999 – 2000 Claiming Title:Australian Aboriginal Artists and the Land, Carleton & St., Olaf Colleges, USA
Wriston Art Centre, Lawrence University, Appleton , Samuel Dorsky Museum USA (touring)
2000 This Earth for Us, Commonwealth Institute, London
2000 People in a Landscape, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2000 From Mythology to the Present, Wuerzburg, Germany
2000 Mountford Bark Collection Etchings, The Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Commissions
1996 Pukumani pole, to private collector: Thomas Vroom, Netherlands
1996 Australian print Workshop. Corporate Christmas Gift.
2000 Equestrian Event Works on Site, Sydney Olympics.
Bibliography
Bennett, J. Ngingingawala Jilamara kapi purunguparri (Our Bark Paintings), Gallery Monthly Magazine of the National Gallery Society of Victoria, September 1992
Bennett, J. Narrative and Decoration in Tiwi painting: Tiwi representations of the Purukuparli Story, Art Bulletin of Victoria 33, 39-47. 1993
The Body Tiwi Aboriginal Art from Melville and Bathurst Islands, exhib. cat., The University Gallery, University of Tasmania at Launceston, 1993
Art of the Tiwi from the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, catalogue, NGV Melbourne 1994
People in a Landscape, (catalogue) Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Medium
Ochres on paper, canvas, bark and iron wood carvings, printmaking and jewellery design
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