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Title: Tunga
Artist: Jean Baptiste Apuatimi (dec)
Region: Tiwi Islands
Art Centre: Tiwi Design
Medium: Etching
Collection: I Am Tiwi
Dimensions: 60cm x 45cm
Edition Size: 50
Price ($AUD): $ 880

Artwork Story

Part of an important folio of ten limited edition prints by renowned Tiwi artist Jean Baptiste Apuatimi. This body of work embodies the iconic imagery produced by this important Australian artist for whom painting is an act of engagement in a culture and tradition linking the past with the present and nurturing the future.

I am Tiwi is presented in an archival boxed folio $8,800

‘Tunga is basket, when they go out and get crab, mussels and palm in the water, they carry tunga on the back with long stick.

Drawn on the plates by the artist at Tiwi Designs, Bathurst Island and printed in an edition of 50 by APW Senior Printer Martin King at Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, 2009.

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