group of drawings made at the request of ethnologist Norman B Tindale during his expedition to Bentinck Island Gabori painted meaningful sites, on Bentinck Island associated with tidal movement, seasonal change, thought of as a memory walk, and a mapping of the physical and social memory of her long life on Bentinck Island Djon Mundine, The Road to Bentinck Island: Sally Gabori, in The Corrigan Collection of Paintings by Sally

group of drawings made at the request of ethnologist Norman B Tindale during his expedition to Bentinck Island Gabori painted meaningful sites, on Bentinck Island associated with tidal movement, seasonal change, thought of as a memory walk, and a mapping of the physical and social memory of her long life on Bentinck Island Djon Mundine, The Road to Bentinck Island: Sally Gabori, in The Corrigan Collection of Paintings by Sally

ThaidaySenio Senior, Ken Thaiday Senior, Ken Thaiday 1950 During the traditional practice of Torres Strait Islander As a youngster on his home island of Erub (Darnley Island), Thaiday lived the traditional life, fishing The islands are situated off the northern tip of tropical Queensland and midway between other lands and Thaiday moved to Cairns as a teenager, as part of a general islander shift to the mainland in search Here he became a founding member of the Darnley Island Dance Troupe.

She was first on the islands decades ago looking at the artworks being made there. When the exploitation of the islands got under way, it went swiftly. In 1911 the Catholic church dispatched a mission to the south coastline of Bathurst Island. But the islanders were equally struck by the influences that were impinging on them. So was born a “neo-traditionalist” current on the islands.

2023 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair & the Telstra National indigenous & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards Aug 7, 2023 2023 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair & the Telstra National indigenous & Torres Strait Islander traveling to the 2023 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair & the Telstra National indigenous & Torres Strait Islander

Carol Puruntatameri < Back Carol Puruntatameri Carol Puruntatameri 1959 - REGION | Yapalika (Melville Island ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS Carol Puruntatameri was born in 1959 on Wurrumiyanga (Bathurst Island ) and later moved to Pirlangimpi on Melville Island, her father’s country, where she developed a profound Illena Tounta Art Centre, Athens , Greece 2014WE ARE TIWI, Munupi Artists from Melville Island. Tiwi Art Network Annual Exhibition, Darwin, NT 2011‘Munupi Artists of Melville Island’.

Wilson at the Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin, NT. 2003 - 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Northern Territory, Darwin. 2002 Art Mob, Hobart. 2001 - Telstra 18th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin. 1999 - 16th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. 1996 - Rebecca Awards: 1999 - Winner Open Painting Award, 16th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award

BrownFlora Flora Nakamarra Brown Flora Nakamarra Brown Thecla Puruntatameri was born at Nguiu, Bathurst Island (Wurrumyianga) in 1971, and grew up on Melville Island at Garden Point (Pirlangimpi). participated in print making workshops in Canberra(1998), the Pacific Arts Festival Raratonga, Cook Islands

Puruntatameri < Back Alison (Jojo) Puruntatameri Alison (Jojo) Puruntatameri 1984 - REGION | Yapalika (Melville Island Jarrikalani (Turtle) ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS Alison was born in Pirlangimpi on Melville Island He knew all the old songs and remembered visits by the Maccassans to the Tiwi Islands when he was a boy (Turtle) Alison Puruntatameri is a leading Tiwi artist based in Pirlangimpi on Yermalner (Melville Island Hilton Double Tree Hilton, August 2018 2018One island one side. • Yati Ratuwati Yatuwati • Art Aborigène

KNOWN - OENPELLI (DILLY HANDBAG) SOLD AU$850.00 ARTIST ONCE KNOWN - SET OF 4 ARM BANDS FROM BATHURST ISLAND KNOWN - PANDANUS WOVEN BASKET OENPELLI SOLD AU$1,200.00 ARTIST ONCE KNOWN - WEVEN BASKET FROM ELCHO ISLAND

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both a crucial support and a necessary reflection of the shifting histories and fortunes of his remote island quality also made an impression on collectors from the earliest times of European involvement on the island Groote Islanders painted and decorated the inside walls of their bark huts, and because of trade and Tindale was followed by Frederick Rose from 1938, with the assistance of a white resident of the island Gray was an entrepreneurial type who sought to encourage local Groote Islanders in bark painting as a