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Ta Teut Amarasi – Awakening: Contemporary textiles and prints based on the traditions of Amarasi, West Timor

Ta Teut Amarasi – Awakening is visual arts exhibition of traditional Indonesian hand woven textiles and contemporary prints on hand-made paper and is part of the at Darwin Festival 2008. The exhibition is the outcome of an ongoing artistic collaboration between Darwin artists and Sanggar Uim Nima, an Indonesian weaving collective.   In 2007, Darwin artists, […]


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  • Image: Leon Stainer and Yohannes Yulianna during the workshop in Baun, West Timor
  • Zarid Baksuni Kaun Tup Hitu (Sleeping Snake) 
rice chin colle’ on hahnamulle 17X17cm 2008
  • Robert Koroh Simbol Raja Kerajaan Amarasi Rasi Koroh (Seal of the Raja of the Amarasi Kingdom) 
rice Chin colle’ on hahnamulle 17X17cm 2008
  • Dina Nahak Kaun Tup Hitu (Sleeping Snake) tais mutin (Man’s cloth wrap)cotton and natural dyes detail 2008

Ta Teut Amarasi – Awakening: Contemporary textiles and prints based on the traditions of Amarasi, West Timor

15 August - 31 August 2008

Ta Teut Amarasi – Awakening is visual arts exhibition of traditional Indonesian hand woven textiles and contemporary prints on hand-made paper and is part of the at Darwin Festival 2008. The exhibition is the outcome of an ongoing artistic collaboration between Darwin artists and Sanggar Uim Nima, an Indonesian weaving collective.

 

In 2007, Darwin artists, Winsome Jobling and Leon Stainer, travelled to Baun, Amarasi, in West Timor to introduce fine art print and paper-making techniques to Sanggar Uim Nima. Local plant crops including grasses and banana trees were utilised for papermaking, while the community learnt print-making techniques including linocut and copper engraving.

 

From the workshops a series of limited edition prints has been produced. These prints, which employ motifs and imagery used in Sanggar Uim Nima’s textile work, will be exhibited as part of Ta Teut Amarasi – Awakening along with a range of the community’s traditional textiles.

 

This project is part of the Asialink Eastern Indonesia – Northern Territory Partnership Program, funded by The Ford Foundation, Jakarta and Arts NT, and produced in partnership with Yayasan Kelola, Charles Darwin University and Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and Nomad Art Productions.

 

Read the essay by Angus Cameron 2008>> Ta Teut Amarasi – Awakening: Contemporary textiles and prints based on the traditions of Amarasi, West Timor.

View the Ta Teut Amarasi collection on the Online Gallery >>

Galuku 2008

In Galuku 2008, artists from the renowned Buku Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre in Yirrkala present a new body of etchings and Larrakitj (Ceremonial poles). The new works pay homage to their ancestors and the historic visit to Yirrkala by anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt in 1947. The Galuku (Palm Tree) Gallery is one of the […]


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  • Image: Nyangangu Marawili drawing the art work for her print
  • Laklak (2) Nguliny Ganambarr Mangatharra Maratanga (Makassan Boat)
etching 25 x 50 cm ©Buku Larrnggay Mulka 2008
  • Nyangangu Marawili Gapu Mungurru (Clouds and Sea) 
etching 50 x 25cm copyright Buku Larrnggay Mulka 2008

Galuku 2008

15 August - 31 August 2008
The Galuku Gallery on show at the Botanic Gardens Darwin, Darwin Festival 15–31 August 2008. Open evenings 6–10 pm.

In Galuku 2008, artists from the renowned Buku Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre in Yirrkala present a new body of etchings and Larrakitj (Ceremonial poles). The new works pay homage to their ancestors and the historic visit to Yirrkala by anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt in 1947.

The Galuku (Palm Tree) Gallery is one of the highlights of the Darwin Festival as the Botanic Gardens are transformed into a magical night-time gallery with no walls.

Read more about the background to the prints >>

View the Galuku 08 collection on the Online Gallery >>

Custodians: Country and Culture

Custodians: Country and Culture is a boxed set of 10 limited edition prints by ten outstanding Indigenous Australian artists: – Lofty Bardayal Nadjamerrek – Dorothy Napangardi – Gawirrin Gumana – Gulumbu Yunupingu – Janangoo Butcher Cherel – Jean Baptiste Apuatimi – Judy Napangardi Watson – Kathleen Petyarre – Lena Nyadbi – Regina Wilson. Each artist reflects […]


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  • Janangoo Butcher, Cherel Girndi, etching and screenprint 50 x 39cm, ©2008
  • Gawirrin, Gumana Baraltja, etching 50 x 39cm, ©2008
  • Gawirrin Gumana working on the etching at Buku Larrnggay Mulka

Custodians: Country and Culture

11 August -

Custodians: Country and Culture is a boxed set of 10 limited edition prints by ten outstanding Indigenous Australian artists:

– Lofty Bardayal Nadjamerrek

– Dorothy Napangardi

– Gawirrin Gumana

– Gulumbu Yunupingu

– Janangoo Butcher Cherel

– Jean Baptiste Apuatimi

– Judy Napangardi Watson

– Kathleen Petyarre

– Lena Nyadbi

– Regina Wilson.

Each artist reflects upon the nature of their custodial role within their own society; whether as a custodian of a particular image, story, area of country or in a wider ceremonial context. The works were created in collaboration with Basil Hall and his team of specialist printmakers in 2008. Custodians includes a variety of print mediums including etching and silkscreen.

 

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Jean Baptiste Apuatimi and Maria Josette Orsto new prints and paintings.

In 2007 Jean Baptiste Apuatimi (dec) and her daughter Maria Josette Orsto from Tiwi Design on Bathurst Island, began a new series of etchings and lithographs with master printer Martin King at the Australian Print Workshop in Melbourne. This exhibition features Jean Baptiste Apuatimi’s etchings of her jikapayinga (fresh water crocodile design) and lithographs by […]


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  • Image: Jean Baptiste Apuatimi (dec)
  • Jean Baptiste Apuatimi (dec) Jikapayinga etching 
©Tiwi Design 2008
  • Maria Josette Orsto Miyinga jilamara lithograph 
© Tiwi Design 2008

Jean Baptiste Apuatimi and Maria Josette Orsto new prints and paintings.

07 July - 08 August 2008
On exhibition at Nomad Art from 7 July - 8 August 2008

In 2007 Jean Baptiste Apuatimi (dec) and her daughter Maria Josette Orsto from Tiwi Design on Bathurst Island, began a new series of etchings and lithographs with master printer Martin King at the Australian Print Workshop in Melbourne.

This exhibition features Jean Baptiste Apuatimi’s etchings of her jikapayinga (fresh water crocodile design) and lithographs by Maria Josette Orsto of jilamara body painting designs using the traditional ironwood comb

 

View Tiwi artwork on the online gallery >>

Nyapanyapa Yunupingu – prints, carvings & barks:

Nyapanyapa is quite remarkable. She is perhaps the artist of the region most remote from the market she creates for. In this sense her art is really quite pure for it is without any consideration or desire to understand what happens beyond point of sale to her art centre. Through an increasing interest in her […]


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  • Image: Nyapanyapa working at Buku-Larrnggay Mulka ©2008
  • Garrangali the Crocodiles Nest, natural pigments on bark, 101x38 cm, © Buku-Larrnggay Mulka 2008
  • Baru ga Miyapunu (Crocodile and Sea Turtle), natural pigments on bark, 101x38 cm, © Buku-Larrnggay Mulka 2008
  • Gunytjulu, screenprint © Buku-Larrnggay Mulka 2008

Nyapanyapa Yunupingu – prints, carvings & barks:

01 June - 30 June 2008
Nomad Art from 1-30 June 2008 and 6 June - 4 July 2009

Nyapanyapa is quite remarkable. She is perhaps the artist of the region most remote from the market she creates for. In this sense her art is really quite pure for it is without any consideration or desire to understand what happens beyond point of sale to her art centre. Through an increasing interest in her work these things may change.

She is a widow, a wife of the late Djapu clan leader Djirrin Mununggurr. She is a ceremonial woman and a battler without material possession. She is a classificatory sister to star artist Gulumbu and traveled once to Adelaide for the 2005 Festival with her kin for a critically acclaimed crying performance in honour of her deceased sister and senior artist Gaymala.

Nyapanyapa’s prints, especially her whacky and boldly coloured screen prints have been a hit for 10 years. Many of her editions have been in many exhibitions around the world. She started to paint on bark in 2007.

Nyapanyapa’s work has been more valued for the spontaneity and texture of her hand. She expresses her capacity to live in the moment in the freeness of her mark making. There is no calculation or even regard for the audience in her renditions. Their final appearance is almost random. They are an expression of the movements of her hand as they happen to have taken place on that particular day.

In 2008 Nyapanyapa attracted critical acclaim when she won the Wandjuk Marika 3D Memorial Award at the annual Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. This installation of video and print reflected on an incident from the 1970’s when Nyapanyapa was badly gored by a buffalo.

Image: Nyapanyapa working at Buku-Larrnggay Mulka ©2008

View Nyapanyapa Yunupingu artwork on the online gallery >>

Recent prints from Warmun Arts (May 2008)

Twenty new etchings reflect the vibrant ochres of the artists of Warmun, Western Australia. In all, 12 Warmun artists collaborated with Monique Auricchio at Basil Hall Editions. Blandina Barney has painted Gumbubayin, the river heading across her father Gordon Barney’s country towards a hill called Gulungurren. In the Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) the crocodile and the goanna […]


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  • Image: Dayiwul Jimbirla Ngarrangkarni by Lena Nyadbi, part of a new collection of etchings from Warmun Arts in Western Australia reflecting the vibrant ochre colours and the artist’s cultural associations with the Kimberly landscape.

Recent prints from Warmun Arts (May 2008)

05 May - 30 May 2008
Warmun prints are on show at Nomad Art from 5-30 May

Twenty new etchings reflect the vibrant ochres of the artists of Warmun, Western Australia. In all, 12 Warmun artists collaborated with Monique Auricchio at Basil Hall Editions.

Blandina Barney has painted Gumbubayin, the river heading across her father Gordon Barney’s country towards a hill called Gulungurren. In the Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) the crocodile and the goanna swapped their teeth in this country.

Other artists featured in the collection include Evelyn Malgil, Gabriel Nodea, Katie Cox, Lena Nyadbi, Mabel Juli, Madigan Thomas, Marietta Bray, Marissa Kingsley, Sade Carrington, Seanne Peters, Shirley Purdie and Marika Patrick.

View the Warmun artwork on the online gallery >> 

Recent prints from Warlukurlangu Artists (April 2008)

Paddy Japaljarri Sims from Yuendumu in collaboration with Basil Hall has completed a folio of 4 etchings to mark the artists 90th year. The prints show the traditional practices associated with burning off areas of spinifex country. The fires are lit around the central circular motifs that depict mulju (water soakages) so that Liwirringki (burrowing […]


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  • Image: Paddy Japaljarri Sims at Yuendumu working on the etching plates published to mark his 90th year.
  • Warlu Jukurrpa (Fire Dreaming), etching Image size 19 x 14 cms © Warlukurlangu Artists 2007.
  • Warlu Jukurrpa (Fire Dreaming) by Paddy Japaljarri Sims © Warlukurlangu Artists 2007
  • The folio containing the four etchings.

Recent prints from Warlukurlangu Artists (April 2008)

01 April - 30 April 2008

Paddy Japaljarri Sims from Yuendumu in collaboration with Basil Hall has completed a folio of 4 etchings to mark the artists 90th year.

The prints show the traditional practices associated with burning off areas of spinifex country. The fires are lit around the central circular motifs that depict mulju (water soakages) so that Liwirringki (burrowing skinks) and other lizards and small mammals are flushed out of their burrows and hiding places. The circular motifs represent mulju and curvy lines are used to represent Warlu (fire) and flames spreading out in the area. This Dreaming is specifically associated with hunting Liwirringki and is celebrated with a corroborree, on the same ground burnt by the fire.

 

View the Warlukurlangu Artists artwork on the online gallery >>

Basil Hall Editions (BHE) Collectors’ Folio series III (March 2008)

This folio is a compilation of etchings and a linocut featuring six prominent Indigenous artists including Dennis Nona (winner of the 2007 Telstra Art Award), Dhuwarrwarr Marika, Janice Murray, Lena Nyadbi, Lofty Nadjamerrek and Shorty Robertson. This is the latest in the highly sought after BHE Collectors series, which are packaged in a unique A4 […]


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Basil Hall Editions (BHE) Collectors’ Folio series III (March 2008)

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This folio is a compilation of etchings and a linocut featuring six prominent Indigenous artists including Dennis Nona (winner of the 2007 Telstra Art Award), Dhuwarrwarr Marika, Janice Murray, Lena Nyadbi, Lofty Nadjamerrek and Shorty Robertson.

This is the latest in the highly sought after BHE Collectors series, which are packaged in a unique A4 sized presentation folio.

 

View the Basil Hall Editions (BHE) Collectors’ Folio series III artwork >>