Context (CMS Context)
In Tiwi myth, the physical world was created by Imunga, the Sun-Woman, who assumed the shape of a turtle, walked the earth, leaving her daughters at various places close to water, forming rivers and creeks and the Tiwi Islands along her way. From her daughters the Tiwi people were born. This important group of works emerges from a unique 1999 project. Three of the most accomplished Tiwi artists were hosted by the South Australian Museum, which holds the highly significant collections of the anthropologist Charles Mountford (1890-1976), author of a classic study, The Tiwi: Art, Myth and Ceremony (1958), which had been available as a point of reference and stimulus to the artists and the community, in photocopied form. Following this research visit, which entailed many surprises - some artefact types in the collection no longer being familiar to the community or the artists - Pedro Wonaeamirri, Maryanne Mungatopi and Janice Murray went on to Melbourne and worked for 8 days with senior printmaker Martin King and others to produce this series of large-scale etchings, some like this directly representative of the objects they had seen in the museum collection in Adelaide, others more broadly inspired by the encounter.
Event Date 12/8/2013
Author: Remke van der Velden

Context (CMS Context)
Drawn on the plate by Mungatopi (1966-2003), from Tiwi, Australia and printed in an edition of 30 plus proofs, by APW Senior Printer Martin King at APW, Melbourne, 2000.
Event Date 12/8/2013
Author: Remke van der Velden

Context (CMS Context)
Presented by The Art Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. An acquisition project to build a collection of modern and contemporary work on paper from Australia, Canada and South Africa was undertaken over 2011-13 with the support of a grant under The Art Fund's RENEW programme. The collection was developed with the expert advice and generous assistance of Annie Coombes and Norman Vorano in relation to South African and Inuit artists respectively. Khadija Carroll, Anita Herle and Diana Wood Conroy also contributed to the selection process. Obtained from Australian Print Workshop, 210 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, 3065, Australia. Acquired on 30 July 2013. Arrived on 8/8/2013.
Event Date 12/8/2013
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Etching by Maryanne Mungatopi, titled 'Sun Woman', 2000. Edition number 6/30. Original limited edition work on paper, signed by the artist. Etching printed in 1 colour, from one copper plate. Condition: Good.
Event Date 12/8/2013
Author: maa