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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Nancy Chapman & Mulyatingki Marney, Untitled, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Nancy Chapman & Mulyatingki Marney, Untitled, 2021

Nancy Chapman & Mulyatingki Marney

Untitled, 2021
acrylic on linen
182 x 121 cm
21-138
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Mulyatingki Marney is the sister of fellow artists Donald Moko (dec.), May Wokka (Mayiwalku) Chapman and Nancy Nyanjilpayi Chapman. She was born at Nyinyari, near the Canning Stock Route. Her...
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Mulyatingki Marney is the sister of fellow artists Donald Moko (dec.), May Wokka (Mayiwalku) Chapman and Nancy Nyanjilpayi Chapman. She was born at Nyinyari, near the Canning Stock Route. Her country encompasses the Punmu, Kunawarritji and Karlamilyi River regions. Mulyatingki walked extensively through this area with her family as a young girl. Following the death of her parents, the sisters continued to travel in the desert alone, though at times they would meet and travel with other family groups.

When her family saw white people for the first time, they hid from them in a cave until nighƞall. With the construction of the Canning Stock Route in 1910, they increasingly came into contact with European and Martu drovers travelling along the Route. Finally, following an extreme and prolonged drought, Mulyatingki’s family walked into Balfour Downs Station, where they were collected by mission staff and taken to Jigalong Mission. They were one of the last families to leave the desert. In 1982, after living for many years at Jigalong Mission, Mulyatingki returned to her homelands with the Return to Country movement. Today, Mulyatingki continues to live in Punmu Community with her sister Nyanjilpayi.
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