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, […]
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 >>
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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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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 […]
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
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 […]
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
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 >>
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 […]
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 >>