REGINA WILSON - SYAW - FISH NET
REGINA WILSON
SYAW - FISH NET, 0.2006
157 x 198 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Canvas
PROVENANCE
Peppimenarti, NT
Gifted to the current owner by the artist and her husbandPrivate Collection, NSW
STORY
The subject matter of Reginaā€™s works is based around the practice of weaving fibre art ā€“ skills she inherited from her grandmother and mother. Regina Pilawuk Wilson was born in 1948 in the Daly River region of the Northern Territory. In 1973, together with her husband,Harold Wilson, she founded the Peppimenarti community as a permanent settlement. The location of the community is an important dreaming site situated amid wetlands and floodplains at the centre of the Daly River Aboriginal Reserve, 300 kilometres south-west of Darwin.