Featuring stunning new fabrics from Jilamara Arts and Crafts, including designs on linen by Michelle Woody, Raelene Kerinauia, Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri, Kaye Brown, Dymphna Kerinaiua, Dino Wilson, Pauletta Kerinaiua and Timothy Cook. View works on the textile gallery View the Jilamara print collection Recent works on paper by Anne McMaster. Anne is an artist now based […]
Featuring stunning new fabrics from Jilamara Arts and Crafts, including designs on linen by Michelle Woody, Raelene Kerinauia, Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri, Kaye Brown, Dymphna Kerinaiua, Dino Wilson, Pauletta Kerinaiua and Timothy Cook.
View works on the textile gallery
View the Jilamara print collection
Recent works on paper by Anne McMaster. Anne is an artist now based in Darwin after many years living on the Tiwi Islands. Her explorations with printmaking and watercolour mediums have led her to investigate the coastal aesthetics of mangroves, coral, tide lines and sea faring objects.
View works on the online gallery Nomad Art is proud to present Keeping Place, Tiwi Art from Ngaruwanajirri Inc, featuring new etchings by Alfonso Puautjimi, Jane Tipuamantumirri, Lorna Kantilla, Lillian Kerinaiua, Alexandrina Kantilla and Ken Wayne Kantilla. This was the first experience for these artists in creating multi plate colour etchings. The print […]
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Nomad Art is proud to present Keeping Place, Tiwi Art from Ngaruwanajirri Inc, featuring new etchings by Alfonso Puautjimi, Jane Tipuamantumirri, Lorna Kantilla, Lillian Kerinaiua, Alexandrina Kantilla and Ken Wayne Kantilla.
This was the first experience for these artists in creating multi plate colour etchings. The print workshop was held inside the wonderful airy workspace called ‘Keeping Place’ at Wurrumiyanga. The artists were assisted by Master printer Basil Hall in April 2021 and the workshop funded by Arts NT.
These artists mostly portray secular aspects of Tiwi life, ranging from quirky images of houses, cars, planes, and bicycles, to fish and magpie geese but also Jilamara (ceremonial designs). The exhibition also includes works on paper, carvings and silk scarves which shows their diversity of skill and design.
Ngaruwanajirri artists are encouraged to explore their individuality and freedom of expression, fostering skills, innovation and sense of belonging. Under a beautiful painted roof of the Keeping Place, artists draw, paint and sculpt. The artists are inspired by their culture and surroundings. As with most Tiwi art the predominant colours used are natural ochres. White and yellow are collected from two beaches on Bathurst Island and burning the yellow ochre over a fire produces a third colour, red.
Ngaruwanajirri (meaning helping one another in Tiwi) was established in 1994 as a cooperative to support Tiwi artists with disabilities and to provide employment for people at Wurrumiyanga.
This new body of etchings is by Stewart Hoosan, Marjorie Keighran, Jack Green, Nancy McDinny from Waralungku Artists in Borroloola, a remote community on the McArthur River in the Northern Territory in the the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is set in an arresting landscape of rocky hills, cattle-grazed scrub, billabongs, and wide horizons. Waralungku artists continue to produce […]
This new body of etchings is by Stewart Hoosan, Marjorie Keighran, Jack Green, Nancy McDinny from Waralungku Artists in Borroloola, a remote community on the McArthur River in the Northern Territory in the the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is set in an arresting landscape of rocky hills, cattle-grazed scrub, billabongs, and wide horizons.
Waralungku artists continue to produce exciting contemporary art. They have a unique voice and style. Borroloola artists depict the life, history and political issues of the region, as well as the distinctive beauty of the surrounding landscape, flora and fauna. The images are layered with a sense of past histories and continuing connections.
This series of etchings was produced during a workshop with Darwin printmaker Jaqueline Gribbin at Borroloola in 2020.