About Tiwi Design
Tiwi Design is located at Nguiu on the south eastern corner of Bathurst Island. Nguiu has a population of approximately 1500. Bathurst Island has a land area of 2,200 square kilometres and is 80 kilometres north of Darwin in the Northern Territory, Australia.
Nguiu has an airport with regular daily flights and a barge delivery service docking at the landing once a week. A community boat takes passengers on a 5 minute trip across the Apsley Strait to Melville Island. The Apsley Strait averages 1.5 kilometres in width.
The Tiwi Design art complex is situated up from Tingata (the beach) on Apsley Strait. It comprises of a carver's shelter, pottery studio, screen printing studio, painting studio plus an administrative centre and retail gallery.
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History
Tiwi Design started from a small room underneath the Catholic Presbytery on Bathurst Island in 1968. Two young men, Bede Tungatalum and Giovanni Tipungwuti worked with the art teacher from the school, Madeline Clear, to produce wood block prints. This art form was introduced because of the natural link with traditional wood carving techniques.
By 1969 the artists started to transfer their designs onto silk screens. Printing textiles quickly became a major activity for the Tiwi Design artists. In 1970, a set of six linen place mats were awarded the Industrial Design Council of Australia's Good Design Award.
Old style carvings
In that same year, Bede Tungatalum and Giovanni Tipungwuti formed a partnership and Madeline Clear began to work full-time as Tiwi Design Art Adviser. Madeline promoted Tiwi Design on a television program Today Tonight and enquiries started to come in from far and wide.
By 1976, Tiwi Design had moved into the large new premises and started work on a wide range of art and craft. The partnership changed to an association in 1980 with the aim being to promote, preserve and enrich Tiwi culture.
Today the organisation is still operating with this aim in mind. There are approximately 100 artists working with Tiwi Design to create painting, wood sculptures, textiles, ceramics, pandanus weaving and printmaking.
Tiwi Design has become an intrinsic part of the Aboriginal art and craft industry in Australia. The organisation continues to support traditional and contemporary art practice, working with highly skilled artists to express their culture.
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Resident Artists
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Other names: Rrngipini aka Over
Date of birth: 6.9.64
Mother's country: Fourcroy
Father's country: Jamulumpi, Mantuyupwi
Skin group: Jilarti (brolga)
Dreaming/dance: Tartiwali (shark)
Media: Acrylic on canvas and paper, ochre (natural earth pigments) on bark, etching, screenprinting.
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Alan Kerinauia c.v.
Exhibitions
1989 The Sixth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, MAGNT, Darwin
1996 Artist in Residence exhibition, Batchelor College, Batchelor, Northern Territory.
1997 Tiwi Prints - a commemorative exhibition 1969-1997, Museum of Contemporary Art ,Sydney
1998 National Heritage Award Exhibition,Canberra
1999 Ngawayati, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art, Sydney
2000 Tiwi 2000, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2007 Nga Wuja Arungwapi Aug 10 -14 Tiwi Art Network, Darwin
2008 Paper and Bronze, new work from Tiwi Design, Helen Maxwell Gallery Canberra.
Responsibilities
2006-2008 Chairman Tiwi Design Aboriginal Corporation
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Other names: Ampuruwaiuah
Date of birth: 1952
Father's country: munupi
Skin group: Yarinapinila (red ochre)
Dreaming/dance: train dance
Media: ironwood carving, ochre painting on canvas, paper, etchings, limited edition prints
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BEDE TUNGATALUM C.V.
Exhibitions
1978 The Territorian Craft Acquisition Award, Crafts Association, NT
1984 The First National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, MAGNT, Darwin
1984 Aboriginal Art, an exhibition presented by Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Canberra
1985 The Second National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory,
1986 The Third Second National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory, Darwin
1987 Australian Aboriginal Views in Print and Poster, Print Council of Australia, travelling exhibition.
1987 The Fourth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory,
1988 Australian Aboriginal Graphics from the Collection of the Flinders University Art Museum.
1988 The Inspired Dream, Life as art in Aboriginal Australia, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
and touring Internationally
1989 On the Edge- Five contemporary Aboriginal Artists, AGWA, Perth.
1989 Prints by Seven Australian Aboriginal Artists, International Touring Exhibition, through Print Council and the
Department of Foreign Affairs and trade.
1989 Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
1989 The Sixth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory,
1990 Munupi Dreaming, Shades of Ochre, Darwin.
1990 The Seventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory,
1990 Balance 1990: views, visions, influences, QAG, Brisbane.
1992 Working in the Round, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide.
1992/93 New Tracks Old Land: An Exhibition of Contemporary Prints from Aboriginal Australia, touring Australia
and USA
1993 The Tenth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory,
Darwin.
1994 Malu Urul, National Maritime Museum, Sydney
1994 The Eleventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory,
Darwin.
1995 The Twelfth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory,
Darwin.
2000 Tiwi 2000, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2000 Fremantle Print Art Award, 1st Prize, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
2000 Telstra Indigenous Art Award, MAGNT, NT
2001 Islands in the Sun, National Gallery of Australia, ACT
2003 20th Telstra national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award
2004 Kick Arts Gallery, Munupi Editions
2006 Bangu Yilbara: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2006 Freestyle New Design for Living travelling exhibition, Object Gallery, Sydney, Museum of Victoria, Art
Gallery of South Australia, Milan 2008.
2006 Tamworth Textile Biennale, Tamworth Regional Gallery Travelling Exhibition.
2008 Papuranguwi Arikutumurnuwi, (good people) Bett Gallery Hobart 16Oct – 05 Nov 2008.
Bibliography
1989,Nothing to Celebrate? Australian Aboriginal Political Art and the Bicentennial, exhibition cat., Flinders University Museum
Butler, R., 1986, "From dreamtime to machine time," Imprint21(3-4), 7.
Caruana, W., 1987, Australian Aboriginal Art, a souvenir book of Aboriginal Art in the Australian National Gallery, Parkes, ACT.
Caruana, W., 1993, Aboriginal Art, Thames and Husdon, London.
Cochrane, G., 1992, The Crafts Movement in Australia: A History, NSW University Press, Kensington NSW.
O'Ferrall, M., 1989, On the Edge- Five Contemporary Aboriginal Artists, exhib. Cat, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
Perkins H. 'Beyond the Year of the Indigenous Peoples/ in Art and Australia 1993 Vol 31 No 1 p98-101
Samuals J and C Watson, 1987 Australian Aboriginal Views in print and poster, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne.
Smith ,H., 1990, Tiwi, the Life and art of Australia's Tiwi People, Angus and Robertson, Australia.
Watson, C., 1990, 'The Bicentenary and beyond: recent developments in Aboriginal Printmaking,' Special Double Issue Artlink 10 (1&2), 70-73.
West M.K.C.,(ed), 1988, The Inspired Dream, Life as Art in Aboriginal Australia, exhib. Cat., Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Department of the Chief Minister, Northern Territory of Australia, 1983,'Tiwi Design in Export Drive." Digest of Australia's Northern Territory, Special Self Government Issue, 1 July, 22-25.
Munupi Dreaming, exhib. Cat. Shades of Ochre Gallery, 1990, Darwin.
Munro, Keith. 2006, Bangu Yilbara: Works from the MCA Collection, , Peachy Print, Sydney
Parkes, Brian. (ed) Freestyle New Australian Design for Living, 2006 Exhibition publication, Imago Thailand.
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Other names: Karrijala
Date of birth: 17.5.57
Mother's country: Marlawu
Father's country: Imalu
Skin group: Jarpijapinga (march fly)
Dreaming/dance: Trick dance
Media: Ironwood carving, ochre (natural earth pigments) on bark, tunga.
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Art painting and wood carving is part of our identity. It is linked with our spiritual beliefs through our culture. These activities make the life of a Tiwi person more real... and this is important.
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Other names: Connie
Date of birth: 24.5.67
Mother's country: Pinyinapi
Father's country: Tupanagapi
Skin group: Wantarringa (sun)
Dreaming/dance: Trick dance
Media: Acrylic and ochre (natural earth pigments) on bark, canvas and tunga.
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Life be in it is my motto. I like doing painting, my Grandparents taught me to paint. I am proud to be Tiwi.
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Date of birth: 9.9.1969
Father's country: Mantiyupwi
Skin group: pandanas
Dreaming/dance: tartawali (shark dance)
Media: ironwood carving, ceramic and bronze sculpture, ochre painting
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Cyril James Kerinauia (aka CJ) C.V.
Exhibitions:
1999 Tiwi Turtiyangini Sutton Gallery, Ceramics exhibition, Melbourne
1999 The Sixteenth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT
1999 Ngawayati, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney (painting)
1999 Nginigawula Tiwi Turtiyangini, Framed Gallery, Darwin (ceramics)
2000 Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney (ceramics)
2000 Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Award (ironwood carving)
2000 17th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (ceramics)
2000 Across the Clarence Strait – Art of the Tiwi, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art Gallery, Cairns, QLD (ceramics)
2001 Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney (ironwood carvings)
2002 Yikwani: Contemporary Tiwi Ceramics National Gallery of Victoria touring exhibition. Exhibition held in Melbourne,
regional Victoria and Sydney
2004 Yikwani-Fire Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Tayikawapi Alcaston Gallery
2006 Kirripapurajuwi Ngini Ngawula Jilamara, Raft Art Space, Darwin
2006 Verge National Ceramics Conference Exhibition, One desert; One sea, Jugglers Art Space Brisbane
2006 Tiwi Bronze, William Mora, Melbourne
2006 Tiwi Art Network Exhibition, Darwin
2007 Sculpture and Object Functional Art, Indigenous Ceramics exhibition Jam Factory, Chicago
2008 Papuranguwi Arikutumurnuwi, (good people) Bett Gallery Hobart 16Oct – 05 Nov 2008
2008 From the Earth, survey of indigenous ceramics, Jam Factory, Adelaide, 13 Dec – 25 January 09
2009 Ochre Imprints,Tandanya, National Aboriginal Culture Institute, Adelaide SA, 9 Jan – 22 March.
Awards:
1999 Wandjuk Marika 3D Memorial Award for the ceramic sculpture titled Hunting Party in the Sixteenth National Aboriginal Art
Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, sculpture by the artist and S.V.R. Fernando.
Collections:
Linden Museum of Stuttgart, Germany
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
National Museum of Ethnography, Osaka, Japan
Art Gallery of South Australia
National Museum of Australia
Museum and Art gallery of the Northern Territory
Responsibilities
2003 Curator of Yikwanu traveling exhibition with national gallery of Victoria
2006 Delegate of Tiwi Islands land council
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Other names: Ampirrayipoyi aka Junkie
Date of birth: 26.10.63
Mother's country: Wangurru
Father's country: Jumulampa
Skin group: Takaringini (mullet)
Dreaming/dance: Tartawali (shark)
Media: Ochre and acrylic on canvas, paper and bark, ironwood sculpture, etching, lino printing.
"Watching the old carvers carving and painting got me interested in art and our culture. I went to the mainstream University in Darwin to learn more about art. I came back and am working at Tiwi Design. Here I am gaining more knowledge about my art and culture, especially about the Tiwi people that are around me.
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Date of birth: 1.02.1966
Skin group: Takaringini (mullet)
Dreaming/dance: tapala (boat)
Media: ochre painting on canvas, paper, bark
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Ita Tipungwuti C.V.
Artists Statement: "I like drawing makes me feel alright, telling stories like Kulama ceremony, Jirnani, Tapara, Mundungkala, like dancing, like funeral, hunting, my paintings tell stories".
Selected Group Exhibitions
"Juwurimi Maminikuwi Jilamara," (Strong Women Design), Short Street Gallery Broome, 1-30 March 2005.
"Big Country Exhibition," Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs. September 2005.
Tiwi Art Network at Sydney Aboriginal and Oceanic Art Fair, Fox Studios, Sydney 14-18 Sept 2005.
Indigenart Christmas show Perth, 17 October – 21 Dec 2005.
"Bush Christmas," Australia's Outback Gallery, Sydney 1-23rd December 2005.
Dreaming Festival painting demonstrations with ANKAAA Woodford, Queensland 21 – 23 rd June 2006.
"Big Country", Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs 18 Aug-15 October 2006.
"Three Places Coming Together,"Tiwi Art Network exhibition, Darwin 9-14 August 2006.
"All the Tiwi Mob," Tiwi Art Network, Short St Gallery, Broome. 23rd Sept – 30th October 2006.
"Colourful Designs at the End of the Wet Season," Framed Gallery, Darwin 11 April 2007.
"Ngiya miraninga, nirra ngintinganinga, ngiya miraninga," (I call her daughter, she calls me auntie. We call each other sister.)The Mossesson Galleries, Melbourne
15 July – 20th August 2007.
"Nga- Wuja Arungwapi"Looking to the Future," Emerging Artists, Tiwi Art Network Exhibition, Darwin. 10-14 August 2007.
SoMa Galleries Adelaide, Tiwi Art Network group exhibition. 1- 30 March 2008
New works on paper and bronze sculptures, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra 2nd -31st May 2008.
Tiwi Art Network Annual Telstra exhibition, Brownsmart Darwin 13th-16th August 2008.
Kulama Jilamara, Mossenson Gallery, Perth October, November 2008
Ochre Imprints, Tandanya, Adelaide 9th January – 22 March 2009
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Other names: Jeanie
Date of birth: c 1940
Mother's country: Marlawu
Father's country: Marlawu
Skin group: Japajapunga (march fly)
Dreaming/dance: Jarrangini (buffalo)
Media: Ochre painting (natural earth pigments) on canvas, paper and bark, wood sculpture.
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I love my painting. I love doing it. My husband, Declan Apuatimi, taught me to paint. The designs are ones he taught me - he said, 'One day you will be an artist - you will take my place.' Now I am doing that. Painting makes me alive.
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi c.v.
DOB 24th June,1940
Birthplace Pirlangimpi, Melville Island
Skin Group Japijapunga (March Fly)
Dance Buffalo
Art Centre Tiwi Design, Bathurst Island
Solo Exhibitions
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Seva Frangos Gallery, Perth, 18 May – 7 June 2008
Ngiya amintiya nginaringa, ngiya ngamaringa, (mother and daughter- Jean Baptiste Apuatimi and Maria Josette Orsto), Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery, 2 Danks St, Waterloo, 26 April – 17 May 2008.
Ngiya Yirtanga Pulukatu, (my name is female buffalo), Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, 12 October-10 November 2007
Makatingari, (It sounds like running water) Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney, 11 February- 4 March 2006.
Mirripaka (Salty Water) Raft Art Space, Darwin, 4 March-26 March 2005
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney, 10 June- 3 July 2004.
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney, 2003
Wangatunga jilamara, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, 1-23 November 2002
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney, 13 June- 6 July 2002
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney, 6-29 July 2001.
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2001
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney, 13 June- 6 July 2000
Paparluwi Jilamara, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 10 July- 4 August 1999.
Selected Group Exhibitions
Jilamara Milikapiti, Alcaston House Gallery, Melbourne, November 1991
Ngingingawula Jilamara kapi Purunguparri: Our Designs on Bark, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,
12 September-2 November 1992
The Body Tiwi: Aboriginal Art from Bathurst and Melville Islands, The University Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, 9-30 September 1993.
Nginingawaluwla Tiwi Jilamara (All our Designs: Silk-screening, Printmaking, Painting, Etching, Batik, Stoneware, Pottery and Carvings), Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 4-21 November 1993.
Power of the Land: Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 13 October -5 December 1994.
Art of the Tiwi from the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria, 14 July-24 August 1994;Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 22 September-6 November 1994; Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, 9 December 1994-22January 1995; Tandanya, Adelaide, 2 February-19 March 1995.
The Fourth National Indigenous Heritage Art Award - The Art of Place, Old Parliament House, Canberra, 1998.
15th Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin,19 September-21 November 1998.
16th Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin,1999.
Arukulunga Wunitaka Thelma, (Big Wind Thelma), Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, 5 August-18 September 1999.
Ngawayati, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney, 1999.
Nginingawula Tiwi Turtiyangini, Framed Gallery, Darwin, 1999.
Papaluwi Jilamara, works by Jean Baptiste Apuatimi and daughters Marie Josette Orsto and Carmelina
Puantulura, Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle, 2000.
Tiwi Dreaming,Taos, New Mexico, USA, 2000
Tiwi 2000, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT, 2000
17th Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the NorthernTerritory, Darwin, 30 September-26 November 2000.
Western Australian Art Fare, Fremantle Passenger Terminal, Perth, 2000.
Across the Clarence Strait – Art of the Tiwi, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns, QLD, 2001.
Islands in the Sun, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, 2001.
Taykwapi Tiwi, Raft Artspace, Darwin, 9 November- 30 November, 2001
Kiripuranji: Clever with our Hands: Contemporary Art from the Tiwi Islands, Artbank collection international touring exhibition- South Pacific, South East Asia, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Latin America, 22 July 2002-5 August 2006.
19th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 10 August-27 October 2002.
Wangatunga Jilamara, paintings and carvings by Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Marie Josette Orsto, Carmelina Puantulura, Natalie Puantulura, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra ACT, 1-23 November, 2002.
Tandanya Gallery, Adelaide SA, 2002/2003
Wangatunga Jilamara Raft Art Space, Darwin, 17 October- 1 November, 2003.
Tiwi Art network, Aboriginal and Oceanic Art Fair, Sydney, 17- 20 November 2005.
Right here, right now: recent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander acquisitions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2006.
22nd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Art Gallery and Museum of the Northern Territory, Darwin 12 August-23 November 2005.
Kirripapurajuwi Nginga Ngawula Jilimara, Raft Art Space, Darwin, 21 April- 13 May, 2006.
23rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Art Gallery and Museum of the Northern Territory, 2006.
Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA, 30 June-24 September 2006; Hood Museum of Art Hanover, USA, 7 October-10 December 2006.
Yirrajirrima murrakupuni ngawurraningimarri (Three places coming together) Tiwi Art Network, Telstra Award
Exhibition, Shop 1/13 Smith Street Mall, Darwin, 11 August- 16 August 2006.
Big Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs 18 August- 15 October 2006.
All the Tiwi Mob, Short St Gallery, Broome, 23 September- 28 October, 2006.
In the World: head, hand, heart,17thTamworth Fibre Textile Biennale, Tamworth Regional Gallery, 9 September-5 November 2006, Artspace Mackay, Mackay Queensland, 18 March-29 April 2007, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria, 13 July – 19 August 2007, Mosman Gallery, Mosman, 2 September-14 October 2007, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, 8 December – 10 February 2008, Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 20 June – 3 August 2008, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill, 29 August- 12 October 2008, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 31 October- 14 December 2008.
Freestyle New Australian Design for Living, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, 5 October- 4 February, 2006, Object Gallery,Sydney, 10 March- 13 May 2007, touring nationally and internationally.
Indigenous Memento of Australia, Brisbane, August 2006.
Culture Warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 13 October- 8 February,2007, Art Gallery South Australia, Adelaide, 20 June – 31 August 2008, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth 20 September – 23 November 2008, Art Gallery Queensland/ Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, March-May 2009.
Australian Print Workshop exhibition of Australian Printmakers at Australian Embassy of Washington, Nov-Dec 2007, Washington, USA
New Works from Tiwi Design (bronze and paper ) Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, 2– 31 May 2008
New Etchings and Lithographs by Jean Baptiste Apuatimi and Maria Josette Orsto, Nomad Gallery, Darwin July2008
Melbourne Art Fair – represented by Raft Art Space Darwin director Dallas Gold July 2008.
25th Silver Jubilee NATSIAA Telstra Award Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin 15th August 30th September 2008
Custodians: Country and Culture, Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne, Nomad Gallery, Darwin 23 August -20Sept 2008
Tiwi Art Network Annual Telstra Award Exhibition, Brownsmart 13th-16th August 2008
The Other Thing, Charles Darwin University Art Collection exhibition 10-26 September 2008
Art Gallery of Western Australia inaugural Indigenous Art Prize 29th October 2008
Ochre Imprints, Tandanya, National Aboriginal Culture Institute, Adelaide SA, 9 Jan – 22 March 2009
MAJOR COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Artbank, Sydney
Batchelor College, Northern Territory
Charles Darwin University, Darwin
IAN Berndt Private collection
Kelton Foundation, California, USA
Kluge-Ruhe collection USA
Macquarie Bank Collection, Sydney
Monash University, Perth
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Museum Victoria, Melbourne
National Australia Bank, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
Parliament House, Canberra
Sammlung Essl Museum, Austria
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle,USA
Wesfarmers Collection
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Art of the Tiwi, The Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1994
Bennett,J. `Ngingingawala Jilamara kapi purunguparri (Our Bark Paintings), Gallery Monthly Magazine of National Gallery Society of Victoria, September 1992.
Bennett, J. `Narrative and decoration in Tiwi Painting: Tiwi representations of Purukuparli Story.' Art Bulletin of Victoria no. 33, Melbourne, 1992, pp 39-47.
Clark,D. & Jenkins, S. (eds) Culture Warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, exhibition publication, 2007.
Nicholson, E. & Price, R. Dreaming their Way, Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Scala Publishers, London, 2006.
Parkes, B. Freestyle New Australian Design for Living, Object Gallery,Sydney 2006.
Perkins,H. & West,M.(eds) One Sun One Moon, Aboriginal Art in Australia. Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, 2007.
The Body Tiwi: Aboriginal Art from Bathurst and Melville Islands, exhibition catalogue, The University Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, 1993.
Thwaite, V. (ed) In the World: head, hand, heart 17th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial, Tamworth Regional Gallery, exhibition catalogue 2006.
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Other names: Jubilini aka Yell
Date of birth: c 1952
Mother's country: Wranku
Father's country: Fourcroy
Skin group: Wantarringa (sun)
Dreaming/dance: Kapala (boat)
Media: Ceramics, ironwood sculpture.
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I saw the old people carving, their designs looked great. I was keen to learn to keep our culture going. I hope that future generations will feel the same and keep the culture alive with their art. I feel really good when I am doing my art.
Jock Puautjimi C.V.
DOB 27.11.1962
Tiwi Name Pulawurrumayini (mullet)
Skin Group Wantarringa (sun)
Dance Tayamini (wild dingo)
Mothers Country Pularumpi, Melville Island
Fathers Country Port Hurd, Bathurst Island
Medium Ceramics, glass, painting, ironwood sculpture, etching, screen printing, linocut.
EDUCATION
1984 Certificate in Ceramics, Darwin Institute of Technology
1983 Certificate in Ceramics, Nepean Technical School, NSW
1979 Year 10, Xavier Boys College, Nguiu
EMPLOYMENT
1979 to present Tiwi Pottery, Nguiu, Bathurst Island. Jock also carves and paints and has been painting since his young school days. He is an accomplished artist in many mediums.
1993 Ceramics Instructor, Kormilda College, Darwin
1993 Artist in Residence, Bachelor College
Commissions:
1981 Danila Dilba Health Centre uniform design based on stone axe screenprinting design.
1999 Australia Post Stamp Commission
Exhibitions
2009 Ochre Imprints, Tandanya, Adelaide 9 Jan- 22 March 2009.
2008 Mamanta Mamanta Tandanya, Adelaide, 9 Jan - 1March 2009.
2007 Mamanta Mamanta (gradual friendship) Luna Ryan and Jock Puautjimi, Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre, Canberra. November 10 – Dec 16 2007.
2007 Shepparton Art Gallery Indigenous Ceramic prize exhibition December 2007-March 2008.
Highly Commended award.
2007 Jam Factory Contemporary Australian Exhibition, Sculpture and Object
Fair, Chicago USA, November 2007
2006 Two Countries; One desert ,One Sea, Tiwi Design and Ernabella Verge Australian
National Ceramic Conference, Brisbane
2005 Tayikawapi Ceramics Exhibition, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne.
2005 Southern Lights, Ausglass Exhibition at Glass Artist Society International Conference,
Adelaide, May 4-9 2005.
2004 Yikwani-Fire Tiwi Design ceramic exhibition Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Yikwani, National Gallery of Victoria touring exhibition.
Exhibition held in Melbourne, regional Victoria and Sydney.
2001 This Earth For Us, Commonwealth Institute touring exhibition of England and Scotland.
2001 Australian National Gallery, Print collection.
2000 Tiwi Dreaming, Taos, New Mexico.
2000 Tiwi 2000, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs.
1990 Solo Exhibition, Shades of Ochre, Darwin
1988 Pacific Arts Festival Townsville, pottery demonstration
1985 Pottery Exhibition, Perth
1984 Pottery demonstration at the Brisbane Festival
1981 Shades of Ochre, Darwin
1993 Batchelor College, Artist in Residence exhibition.
Collections:
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Queensland Art Gallery
Art Gallery of South Australia
FUAM
Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Victoria
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Date of birth: 1969
Father's country: Malawu, Bathurst Island
Skin group: Punguluwnila (stone)
Dreaming/dance: Tarrangigi (Buffalo)
Media: Ironwood carving,
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CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: John Martin Tipungwuti
BORN: 1969
REGION: Wururanku, Bathurst Island
DOMICILE:Nguiu, Bathurst Island
AGENCY: Tiwi Design Aboriginal Corporation
COUNTRY: Malawu
LANGUAGE: Tiwi
SKIN: Punguluwnila(Stone)
DANCE: Tarrangigi(Buffalo)
MEDIUMS: Ironwood carving, Ochres on canvas, bark and paper.
John Martin Tipungwuti was active at Jilamara Arts in the early years of the art centre before he moved to Bathurst Island. He returned to Milikapiti in 2003 and resumed his carving career with Jilamara. In 2007 John and his wife Brenda moved back to Bathurst Island again and John was instrumental in the Tiwi Design 2007 Australia Council carving project. John Martin has been selected for inclusion in new Object Gallery travelling exhibition in 2009 focussing on artists representation of animals.
John Martin is an active member of the arts centre along with his wife Brenda Tipungwuti. His mother is the elder Mary Magdalene Tipungwuti, and his older brother Pius Tipungwuti is also a respected carver. John Martin and Pius are the nephews of the highly acclaimed Tiwi carver Declan Apuatimi, their father Dermot Tipungwuti’s half-brother. Declan was Jean Baptiste Apuatimi’s husband.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1990 Munupi Dreaming, Shades of Ochre, Darwin.
1993 The Body Tiwi Aboriginal Art from Melville and Bathurst Islands, The University Gallery, University of Tasmania at Launceston.
1993 Nginingawula Tiwi Jilamara, All our Tiwi designs, Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
1995 Jilamara Kapi Yurruka Manimpurrua, ( Designs on Long Canvas and Pukumani Poles) Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne.
2003 Wai-ai amintiya Jinani – Mother and Son, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Mary Magdalene and Family, Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA
2005 A Family Affair, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Jilamara Carvers, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Casuarina Domain Sculpture Walk Competition, Tweed Heads, NSW
2006 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Darwin
2006 Ngawila jilamara: our design, Aboriginal & Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney
2006 Ratuwati amintiya ratuwati: Island to Island, Art Mob, Hobart
2007 Nga-wuja arungwapi, Tiwi Art Network exhibition, Darwin, 10-14 August 2007.
2008 Tiwi Art Network Annual Telstra Exhibition, Brownsmart, Darwin. 13th-16th Aug
2008 Papuranguwi Arikutumurnuwi, Bett Gallery, Hobart. 16 Oct - 05 November
2009 Ochre Imprints, Tandanya, Adelaide 6 Jan- 22 Mar
SELECTED BIBILIOGRAPHY:
1990, Munupi Dreaming, exhib. cat., Shades of Ochre Gallery, Darwin. (C) ~ 1993, The Body Tiwi Aboriginal Art from Melville and Bathurst Islands, exhib. cat., The University Gallery, University of Tasmania at Launceston. (C)
Barnes, Kathy, Kiripapurajuwi, published by Kathy Barnes (1999).
COLLECTIONS HELD:
National Gallery of Victoria,Melbourne.
National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
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Other names: Jubilini aka Yell
Date of birth: c 1952
Mother's country: Wranku
Father's country: Fourcroy
Skin group: Wantarringa (sun)
Dreaming/dance: Kapala (boat)
Media: Ceramics, ironwood sculpture.
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I saw the old people carving, their designs looked great. I was keen to learn to keep our culture going. I hope that future generations will feel the same and keep the culture alive with their art. I feel really good when I am doing my art.
John Patrick Kelantumama c.v.
Tiwi Name: Mangaluaiua
Skin Group Wantarningiwi (sun)
Dance Kapala (boat)
Country: Fourcroy
Art Centre Tiwi Design, Bathurst Island
Medium Mid-fired sculptural ceramics, ironwood carving
Artists Statement
I saw the old people doing their art, their designs looked great. I was keen to learn to keep our culture going. I hope that future generations will feel the same and keep the culture alive with their art. I feel really good when I am doing my art.I watched Eddie Purantatameri make a pot and I decided to make pots myself. I like the wheel, it makes me feel good when I do throwing on the wheel. It took me a month to teach myself how to use the kicking wheel. Some of my designs use traditional colours, red, black white and yellow or I just choose the colours I like before I do decoration.Sometimes I paint salt water crocodile design. I paint it because I like crocodile. On the coil vases and small thrown bowls I painted my body painting design (Jilamara) for my skin group. The old people showed me how to paint up like that for ceremony.
Selected Exhibitions:
1980 Tiwi Pottery - Bathurst Island. Potters Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney
1982 Tiwi Pottery from Bathurst Island, Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne
1985 The Second National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
1989 The Sixth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
1999 Tiwi Turtiyangini Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1999 The Sixteenth National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery
of the Northern Territory
1999 Ngawayati, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney
1999 Nginigawula Tiwi Turtiyangini, Framed Gallery, Darwin
2000 Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney
2000 17th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
2000 Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Award, Reconciliation Entry with Melbourne
artist, Brendan Hackett, Bonze sculpture ‘Moon Man” cast from Kelantumama’s ironwood carving.
2000 Across the Clarence Strait – Art of the Tiwi, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art Gallery, Carins
2000 Festival of Pacific Arts, New Caledonia
2001 Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2001 18TH Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art
Gallery of the Northern Territory
2002 YIKWANI’ National Gallery of Victoria touring ceramic sculpture exhibition,regional galleries Victoria and Sydney.
2002 19th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
2003 A Survey of Australian Indigenous Ceramics, Ceramic Art Gallery Paddington NSW
2003 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
2004 YIKWANI-FIRE Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2004 21st Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
2005 Tayikawapi Ceramics Exhibition, Alcaston gallery Melbourne.
2006 Two Countries; One desert ,One Sea, Verge National Ceramics Conference
Brisbane
2006 August, William Mora Galleries, Tiwi Design bronze exhibition
2006 Yirrajirrima murrakupuni ngawurraningimarri, TAN exhibition Darwin.
2006 Dec-Jan “Tiwi Contemporary Ceramics” Grafton Regional Gallery
2007 November, Sculpture and Object Functional Art Fair, Chicago Jam Factory
Contemporary Australian Exhibition
2008 The Lam Collection of Aboriginal Art, at University Texas San Antonia, curated by Scott Sherer, Jan 28-Mar 2 2008
2008 Shepparton Art Gallery Indigenous Ceramic prize exhibition,30Jan-March 2008
2008 Papuranguwi Arikutumurnuwi, Bett Gallery, Hobart 16 Oct – 05 Nov 2008
2008 Christmas show, Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne. 23 November - 24 December
2008 From the earth, Indigneous ceramics survey, Jam Factory, Adelaide 13 Dec – 25 Jan09
Collections
University of Texas San Antonia USA
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of South Australia
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
FUAM
Queensland Museum
Art Gallery of NSW
Powerhouse Museum
Macquarie University Art Gallery
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Grafton Regional Gallery
Charles Darwin University Collection
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Date of birth: 24.8.78
Mother's country: Oenpellie
Father's country: Jamulampi
Skin group: pandanas
Dreaming/dance: Tartiwali (shark)
Media: ochre on canvas, paper, bark
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Margaret Renee Kerinauia C.V.
Artist Statement
I learnt how to paint from the old people, they used toteach us at school. My grandfather, Jerry Kerinauia was an artist, we have the book at home.That's why I decided to become an artist, to carry on the family tradition.My mother's uncle is an artist too. His name is Yiwala. He is half Tiwi, half Kunwingku - like me.
Group Exhibitions
Ochre Imprints, Tandanya, Adelaide 6 Jan – 22 Mar 2009.
Papuranguwu Arikutumurnuwi, Bett Gallery, Hobart 16 Oct – 05 November 2008
Kulama Jilamara, Mossenson Galleries, Subiaco Perth. 6-29 October 2008
"Three countries together, all our good designs," Tiwi Art Network Exhibition , Brownsmart 13th-Aug 08
30 under 30, new generation of indigenous artists, Mossenson Gallery , Collingwood 14th April 2008
New Paintings from the Tiwi Islands, SoMa Galleries Adelaide,1st – 30th March 2008
Mamirnikuwi Yirrinkiripwaja Miyinga: (The women paint dots and lines) Margaret Renee Kerinauia, Marie Josette Orsto, Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Alison Kelly Gallery 17 Oct – 10 Nov 2007
Nga-Wuja Arungwapi, Tiwi Art Network exhibition, Darwin 10 -14th August 2007.
All the Tiwi Mob, Short Street Gallery , Broome 23 Sept – 20 October, 2006.
Colourful designs at the end of the wet season, Framed Gallery, Darwin 2nd -30th April 2007
Three places coming together, Tiwi Art Network exhibition, Darwin 10th-14th August 2006.
Big Country, Gallery Gondwana Alice Springs 18th Aug – 15th Oct 2006
Bush Christmas, Australia's Outback Gallery Darling Harbour 15th Dec – 21st Jan 2005
Strong women, Short Street Gallery Broome, 2005
Tiwi 2000 Gondwana Gallery, Alice Springs, 2000.
Tiwi Dreaming, Taos, New Mexico, 2000.
Collections Northern Territory Tourist Commission
Awards selected for TOGART contemporary art prize Darwin Convention Centre 19th June 2008
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Date of birth: 24.8.78
Mother's country: Oenpelli
Father's country: Jamulampi, Melville Island
Skin group: Pandanas
Dreaming/dance: Tartiwarli (shark dance)
Media: ochre painting on canvas, paper, bark baskets (tunga)
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Margaret Renee Kerinauia
Artist Statement
I learnt how to paint from the old people, they used toteach us at school. My grandfather, Jerry Kerinauia was an artist, we have the book at home.That’s why I decided to become an artist, to carry on the family tradition.My mother’s uncle is an artist too. His name is Yiwala. He is half Tiwi, half Kunwingku - like me.
Group Exhibitions
“Three countries together, all our good designs,” Tiwi Art Network Exhibition , Brownsmart 13th-Aug 08
30 under 30, new generation of indigenous artists, Mossenson Gallery , Collingwood 14th April 2008
New Paintings from the Tiwi Islands, SoMa Galleries Adelaide,1st – 30th March 2008
Mamirnikuwi Yirrinkiripwaja Miyinga: (The women paint dots and lines) Margaret Renee Kerinauia, Marie Josette Orsto, Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Alison Kelly Gallery 17 Oct – 10 Nov 2007
Nga-Wuja Arungwapi, Tiwi Art Network exhibition, Darwin 10 -14th August 2007.
All the Tiwi Mob, Short Street Gallery , Broome 23 Sept – 20 October, 2006.
Colourful designs at the end of the wet season, Framed Gallery, Darwin 2nd -30th April 2007
Three places coming together, Tiwi Art Network exhibition, Darwin 10th-14th August 2006.
Big Country, Gallery Gondwana Alice Springs 18th Aug – 15th Oct 2006
Bush Christmas, Australia’s Outback Gallery Darling Harbour 15th Dec – 21st Jan 2005
Strong women, Short Street Gallery Broome, 2005
Tiwi 2000 Gondwana Gallery, Alice Springs, 2000.
Tiwi Dreaming, Taos, New Mexico, 2000.
Collections Northern Territory Tourist Commission
Awards finalist for TOGART contemporary art prize Darwin Convention Centre 19th June 2008
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Other names: Parpitayiyu aka Mangie
Date of birth: 30.10.62
Mother's country: Marlawu
Father's country: Imalu
Skin group: Jarpijapinga (march fly)
Dreaming/dance: Trick dance
Media: Acrylic and ochre (natural earth pigments) on canvas and paper, batik, etching, lino printing, woodblock, wood sculpture, lithography.
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I find more life in doing art work. My father, Declan Apuatimi, taught me to paint and carve. I am happy that I became an artist. My designs are growing stronger. I am always building up a new design in my head - sometimes I combine old Tiwi designs with my new ones.
Maria Josette Orsto (nee Apuatimi) C.V.
D.O.B. 30-10-62
Place of Birth Pularumpi,Melville Island
Mothers Country Wangurruwu (Marluwu),Bathurst Island
Fathers Country Imalu, Melville Island
Clan (skin group) Japajapunga (march fly)
Dance Trick Dance
Residence Tiwi Design, Nguiu Bathurst Island
brief history
Josette started painting as a young girl, taught by her father, Declan Apuatimi. In his later years ,she participated in and completed much of his work. Josette is a prolific carver, painter, batik and print artist. Josette lives in Nguiu, Bathurst Island and was one of the first female artists to become an official member of Tiwi Design. Marie Josette Orsto was the first Tiwi woman to hold a solo exhibition.
Solo Exhibitions
May 1990 aGOG,(Australian Girls own Gallery) Canberra
July 1991 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
Ngiya amintiya nginaringa, ngiya ngamaringa (me and my mother, me and my daughter) Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney 26 April – 17 May 2008.
Maria Josette Orsto solo exhibition, Birrung Gallery, Sydney 26th June -27st July 2008
Maria Josette Orsto solo exhibition, Seva Frangos Art, Perth 6 – 24 Dec 2008
Group Exhibitions & Art Awards
1990 Shades of Ochre,Darwin
10th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, MAGNT, NT
Etching and Lithograph workshop, Canberra School of Art
1991 Studio One,Canberra
The third Eye; Edinburgh
Hogarth Galleries,Sydney
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi,Melbourne
Munupi Dreaming;NSW touring print exhibition
Aboriginal Womens Art; Art Gallery of NSW.
Flash Pictures; Australian National Gallery,
Canberra Art Framing Gallery
1992 A .N. U.Drill Hall Gallery,Canberra
National Aboriginal Heritage Art Awards,Canberra
Savode Gallery ,Brisbane
Alliance Francaise,Canberra
Australian Embassy,Paris
Munupi Dreaming,Victorian Touring print exbition
National Aboriginal Art Awards
Munupi Prints;24hr Art,Darwin
1993 Mamunukuwi Jilarmara, tiwi womens art, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National Gallery,Canberra
1994 Tiwi art Tradition &Change'Tandanya, Adelaide
Girls Own Territory,Darwin Performing Arts Centre,N.T.
Community Aid Abroad Exhibition,Hobart Tasmania.
1997 Museum of Contempory Art,Tiwi art Exhibiton
1998 15th Heritage art award, Canberra
MAGNT Telstra Art Award.
1999 Ngawayati, Coo-ee Exhibiton
2000 Papaluwi Jilarmara,Fremantle art centre W.A.
2000 Taos, New Mexico
2000 5th National Heritage Art Award, Old Parliament House, ACT
2000 Tiwi 2000, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs.
2001 New Works From Bathurst IslandGallery Gondwanna, Alice Springs
2002 Kiripuranji, National Art bank, Travelling Exhibition- touring Australian Embassies on four continents.
2002 Wangatunga Jilamara, Family show-Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2002 Awuna Mantawi, Tiwi Art Network Show, Adelaide
2002 Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra ACT
2002/2003 Tandanya Gallery, Adelaide SA
2003 Nungi-Mi, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi Melbourne
2003 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
2003 Wangatunga Jilamara Raft Artspace, Darwin
2004 Big Country, Group show Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2005 Tiwi Design on paper, Indigenart, Perth
2006 Kiripapurajuwi Ngini Ngawula Jilamara, Raft Art Space, Darwin
2006 Yirrajirrima murrakupuni ngawurraningimarri, TAN exhibition Darwin.
2007 Colourful Designs for the End of the Wet Season, Framed Gallery Darwin
2007 Nga- Wuja Arungwapi, Tiwi Art Network Exhibition 10- 14 August, Smith Street, Darwin
2007 Mamirnikuwi yirrinkiripwaja Miyinga, 17October – 10th November, Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Tiwi Islands Art, Soma Galleries, Adelaide, 1-31st March
2008 Jean Baptiste Apuatimi and Marie Josette Orsto, Aboriginal and Pacific Arts, Sydney 24 April – 17th May
2008 New prints from Maria Josette Orsto and Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Nomad Gallery, Parap 3rd - 31st July
2008 Tiwi Art Network annual Telstra Award exhibition, Brownsmart, Darwin 13-16 Aug
2008 Papuranguwi Arikutumurnuwi, painting and carving from Tiwi Design, 16 Oct – 05 Nov
2009 Ochre Imprints, Tandanya, National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide. 9 Jan – 22 March
Collections:
Art Gallery of Queensland / Modern Art
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Australian Embassy Paris
Australian Museum
Charles Darwin University Collection
Darwin Airport painting and ironwood pole installation
FUAM
Islands in the Sun, National Gallery of Australia, ACT
Kelton Foundation, USA
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Museum Victoria
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Print Collection
National Gallery of Victoria, batik, bark and painting
Queensland University of Technology
Queensland Museum
Robert Holmes a Court Collection Perth
Seattle Art Museum
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Other names: Tapampilimeiu
Date of birth: c 1945
Mother's country: Jamulumpi
Father's country: Tarricumbi
Skin group: Jilarti (Jabiru)
Dreaming/dance: Pika (horse)
Media: Ochre (natural earth pigments) on bark, paper and canvas, tunga and etching.
"When I first came to be an artist I went to see the elders doing their art. They encouraged me - especially my grandmother and also Declan Apuatimi. I was thinking hard about art. I am really happy to be an artist.
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Other names: Putatama
Date of birth: 30.12.
Mother's country: Tarracumbie
Father's country: Port Hurd
Skin group: Jilarti (Jabiru)
Dreaming/dance: Tayamini (wild dingo)
Media: Ceramics.
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I watched Eddie, Bosco and John Patrick doing pottery and I learnt from them. Making pots has been good to me. It is important that I am Tiwi and that I enjoy doing my good art.
Mark Virgil Puautjimi C.V
DOB 1964
Tiwi Name Mulapmayua
Skin Group Jilaringni (Brolga)
Dance Dingo
Art Centre Tiwi Design, Bathurst Island
Medium Mid-fired sculptural ceramics, ironwood carving
Brief History
Mark worked at the Tiwi Design pottery studio from 1983 to 1988 as the apprentice and technician,making the clay
and glaze materials which were sourced and milled from Bathurst Island. Mark rejoined the studio in 1999 and
became trainee Manager with John Patrick Kelantumama.
Artists Statement
I watched Eddie, Bocso and John Patrick doing pottery and I learnt from them.
Making pots has been good to me. It is important that I am Tiwi and that I enjoy doing my good art work.
Exhibitions
1999 Tiwi Turtiyangini, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1999 The Sixteenth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
1999 Nginigawula Tiwi Turtiyangini, Framed Gallery, Darwin
2000 Across the Clarence Strait - Art of the Tiwi, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art Gallery, Cairns.
2001 Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2001
2001 18th Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
2002 Yikwani, National Gallery of Victoria touring exhibition, Melbourne, regional Victoria and Sydney
2003 Colour and The Shape, In conjunction with Fathoming Contemporary Sculpture, Thornquest Gallery, QLD
2004 19THAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 2005 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition ANG
2003 Survey of Australian Indigenous Ceramics, Ceramic Art Gallery Paddington
2004 Yikwani-Fire Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Tayikawapi Ceramics Exhibition, Alcaston Gallery Melbourne.
2006 Two Countries; One desert ,One Sea, Verge National Ceramics Conference, Jugglers Art Space Brisbane
2007 Nga- Wuja Arungwapi” Tiwi Art network exhibition Darwin 10th-14th August
2007 SOFA Chicago Jam Factory Indigenous Ceramic exhibition USA November 4th- 9th
Finalist Shepparton Indigenous Ceramic Prize, Shepparton Regional gallery, Shepparton 11th Dec 2007- 24th January 2008.
2008 From the Earth, Jam Factory, Survey of Indigenous Ceramics. 13 Dec - 25 January 2009
Collections
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
National Museum of Ethnography,Osaka, Japan
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Art Gallery of South Australia
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Date of birth: 27.06.1966
Mother's country: Melville Island
Father's country: Wurruranku, Bathurst Island
Skin group: stone
Dreaming/dance: pig
Media: Master Screen Printer
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Osmond Kantilla - Master Screen Printer
DOB 27.06.1966
Skin Stone
Dance Pig
Country Wurruranku
Workshops
2005 Screen printing workshop with Colin Holt restoring and repairing old screens.
2002 Screen printing workshop at Tiwi Design with Natalie Kitzelman creating new designs and fabric lengths. Cataloguing screen prints and product development
2001 Two week workshop at Tiwi Design with Stewart Russell from Spacecraft, Victoria printing & sewing fabric lengths for London exhibition
2000 2x2 week workshops at Tiwi Design with Russell experimenting with new dyes and fabrics and producing new textile products.
1999 Screen printing Workshop at Tiwi Design with Andrea McNamara and Natalie Kitzelman
1998 Screen printing workshop at Tiwi Design with McNamara developing new fabric lengths
1998 Screen printing workshop at Kununurra, N. T.
1996 Kaltja/Business, Cultural conference, Darwin.
1995 Printmaking Workshop at the Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
1995 Etching Workshop, Northern Territory University, one week
1986 Artist In Residence, Redback Graphics, Sydney, three months
Exhibitions
2002 Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Cooperative ‘Material Thing’ Fabric and Textile Exhibition, Sydney
2000 London Printworks Trust, exhibition ‘Tiwi Textiles – Translating Tradition’ representing new works on cloth and introducing ‘old and lost’ designs and a new design by Osmond Kantilla
1999 Framed Gallery, Darwin, Collection of screen printing
2002 19th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, NT
In the World: head, hand, heart,17thTamworth Fibre Textile Biennale, Tamworth Regional Gallery, 9 September-5 November 2006, Artspace Mackay, Mackay Queensland, 18 March-29 April 2007, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria, 13 July – 19 August 2007, Mosman Gallery, Mosman, 2 September-14 October 2007, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, 8 December – 10 February 2008, Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 20 June – 3 August 2008, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill, 29 August- 12 October 2008, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 31 October- 14 December 2008.
Freestyle New Australian Design for Living, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, 5 October- 4 February, 2006, Object Gallery,Sydney, 10 March- 13 May 2007, touring nationally and internationally to Milan in May 08
Tiwi Textile Art exhibition Territory Craft, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, August 13th – September 2008.
Interstate and Overseas Travel
2001 London, U.K. for exhibition, ‘Tiwi Textiles -Translating Traditions’
2000 Melbourne, Australia, visiting the NGV to locate ‘lost’ designs and develop new designs.
1997 Dance performance at The Festival of the Dreaming, Sydney.
1986 Sydney, Artist in Residence, Redback Graphics.
Awards
2005 Memento Awards, Indigenous Memento of Australia. Winner for Yilinga & Muputi printed silk sarong.
2004 Memento Awards, Indigenous Memento of Australia. Runner up in printed fabric.
2002 Freemantle Print Awards. 2nd Prize awarded for Textile piece; Rust pigment on various fabrics, assembled and stretched.
2000 Australia Council grant in presentation and promotion of Tiwi Textiles – Translating tradition. Work-shopped with Stewart Russell from Spacecraft, Melbourne and exhibited at London Printworks Trust
Collections
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
University of Woollongong, NSW
Art Gallery of South Australia
Queensland University of Technology
Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory
Object Gallery, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia
National Museum, Canberra
Publications
Parkes, B. Freestyle New Australian Design for Living, Object Gallery,Sydney 2006.
Thwaite, V. (ed) In the World: head, hand, heart 17th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial, Tamworth Regional Gallery, exhibition catalogue 2006.
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Date of birth: 3.4.1957
Father's country: Wururanku
Skin group: Takaringini (scaly mullet)
Dreaming/dance: pika (horse)
Media: ironwood carving, ochre painting
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CURRICULUM VITAE: ROMOLO TIPILOURA
BORN: 3/4/1957
REGION: Bathurst Island, Northern Territory
DOMICILE: Nguiu
AGENCY: Tiwi Design
COUNTRY: Wururanku
LANGUAGE: TIWI
SKIN GROUP: TAKARINGINI (SCALY MULLET)
DANCE: PIKA (HORSE)
Romolo Tipiloura returned to Tiwi Design in January 2006 with his wife and fellow carver Immaculata Tipiloura, concentrating on his carving. Romolo painted and carved for Jilamara Arts and Craft Association from October 2003 to December 2005. Prior to joining Jilamara Romolo lived at Nguiu on Bathurst Island where he worked in many different capacities to satisfy his desire for education and skills development.
Romelo draws upon his cultural heritage to carve figures from the Creation Story and traditional Pukumani Poles designed with what he describes as "old style design". In 2006 he developed a more contemporary piece called the footy man that drew on the traditional story of Taparra the moon man to celebrate the current passion for football. His large traditional ceremonial pole with the full moon on top was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia in 2006.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2003 Let's Keep Our Art Strong: Recent works from the Jilamara Artists, Raft Artspace, Darwin
2004 Milikapiti Turtiyanginari: Milikapiti Ochre, RAFT Artspace, Darwin
2004 Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, represented by Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Yirrarra – Kulama amintiya Pukumani, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2006 The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Victoria
2006 Jilamara Carvers, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Ngawila jilamara: Our Design, Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney
2006 Nginingaji ngawula kurrupuranji jilamara (Our beautiful design), Raft Art Space Darwin
2006 Tiwi Art Network Three Places Coming Together, NATSIAA Exhibition
2007 Colourful designs at the end of the Wet Season," Framed Gallery, Darwin.
2007 Tiwi Art Network 'nga winga arungwapi' Telstra Natsiaa exhibition Darwin
2007 TELSTRA NATSIAA Art AWARD, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin
2007 Parcours des Mondes, Galerie Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris
2007 Tiwi Design Painting and Carving exhibition, The Mossensson Galleries, Collingwood, Victoria
2008 Annual Tiwi Art Network Telstra Exhibition, Brownsmart, Darwin
2008 Papuranguwi Arikutumurnuwi, Bett Gallery Hobart, 16 Oct - 05 November
2009 Ochre Imprints, Tandanya, Adelaide. 9 Jan - 22 Mar
Collections
Large ironwood Tutini acquired by National Gallery of Australia in December 2006.
Charles Darwin University collected large tutini and Taparra figure carving (from Telstra 2007) for installing in the new university building in 2008.
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Date of birth: 2.08.1979
Skin group: Jamulampi
Dreaming/dance: Crocodile
Media: ochre on canvas, paper, bark
"
Roslyn Orsto C.V.
Artists Statement: "When I was seventeen my sister in law (Marie Josette Orsto) taught me to paint. I like to do painting and I feel good it's exciting, I like canvas and shells, my paintings tell stories."
2002/2003 Woodford Folk Festival
March 2005 "Juwurimi Maminikuwi Jilamara," (Strong Women Design), Short Street gallery Broome.
Dec 2005 "Bush Christmas," Australia's Outback Gallery, Sydney
Oct 2005 "Tiwi Design mixed media,"Indigenart, Perth
August 2006 "Big Country", Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
August 2006 "Three Places Coming Together,"Tiwi Art Network, Natsiaa exhibition, Darwin
April 2007 "Colourful Designs at the End of the Wet Season," Framed Gallery, Darwin.
July 2007 "Ngiya miraninga, nirra ngintinganinga, ngiya miraninga," (I call her daughter, she calls me auntie. We call
each other sister.) The Mossesson Galleries, Melbourne.
August 2007 "Nga- Wuja Arungwapi"Looking to the Future," Emerging Artists, Tiwi Art Network Exhibition,
Darwin.
1 March – 30 March 2008 SoMa Galleries Adelaide, Tiwi Art Network group exhibition.
14 April- 26th May 2008, 30 under 30 exhibition of emerging artists, The Mossenson Galleries Collingwood Vic
and Perth W.A
2008 Kulama Jilamara, Mossenson Galleries, Perth 6 - 29 October
2009 Ochre Imprints, Tandanya 9 Jan - 22 March
Collections
Art Gallery of Queensland
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Other names: Tiger
Date of birth: 5.4.65
Mother's country: Port Hurd
Father's country: Taracumbie
Skin group: Miyaituwiyi (pandanus)
Dreaming/dance: Pika (horse)
Media: Batik, acrylic and ochre (natural earth pigments) painting, wood sculpture, woodblock, etching, lino printing.
"I like my work as an artist. I have travelled a lot doing my art. I went to Perth, Brisbane and the Cook Islands to do batik. I also went to Sydney to dance at the Festival of the Dreaming. My culture is special to me and I am strong with my culture.
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Albertus Tipiloura
Bede Tungutalum
Blanche Puruntatameri
Bonavanture Timaepatua
C J Kerinauia
Claudette Poantimilui
Greg Jules Orsto
John Vianny Babui
Juanita Tipiloura
Judy Munkara
Lorraine Babui
Mary Concepta Kantilla
Mary Jo Kantilla
Natalie Puauntulura
Natalie Tungatalum
Osmond Kantilla
Pascal Tipungwuti
Ruth Kerinauia
Sabo Tipiloura
Stanley Puautjimi
Sylvester Fernando
Thomas Munkanome
Timothy Womatakimmi - Bookkeeper
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