At the time there was no phone available at Milikapiti on Melville Island where Enraeld was living. As an elder, he became the leader of the Tikalaru people in south-west Bathurst Island and is seen in The works were all collected by Dorothy Bennett on her visits to Melville Island in the 1950s and were According to the accompanying documentation, when Dorothy Bennett would visit the island it was a mystery have heard as there were no phones, yet he was always waiting by the jetty when she arrived on the island

Indigenous art accumulated by Adrian and Anne Newstead while working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander as Adrian Newstead was instrumental in initiating this medium amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Footsteps Opening: Thursday 14 December, 6-8pm The minute I was flying over the ocean heading to the islands Joshua Bonson is a three-time finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art

Family Tradition, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide • The 2nd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Spirits from an Empty Land, Riverside Studios, London 2000 • 17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander co-operation with Aboriginal Art Gallery Baehr, Speyer) 2001 • 18th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander verhalen vertellen, Zwolle 2000, ISBN 9040095078 • The Eighteenth National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander

and exhibition coordinator, his first work with Aboriginal communities was with the Tiwi on Bathurst Island he has enjoyed close relationships with artists from the Kimberley region and Western Torres Strait Islands

ChapmanNancy Nancy Nyanjlpayi Chapman Nancy Nyanjlpayi Chapman Hi my name is Shirley I was Born on Bathurst Island Since then I grow up older and at the age of 16 years and I went to school called s.t.s on Bathurst Island.That

Kitty Kantilla 1928 - 2003 Kitty Kantilla was born c1928 at Yimpinari, on the eastern side of Melville Island The mission settlement located on the eastern coast of Bathurst Island some 100 kilometres across the number of other countrywomen, created a tiny outstation in her mother’s country at Paru, on Melville Island The Paru women sold their work through this facility on Bathurst Island until, by the early 1990’s, most This was the first Pukumani (mortuary) ceremony, and tells how death first came to the Tiwi Islands.

Puruntatameri I, Jacqueline Puruntatameri, was born in Darwin and grew up at Pirlingampi on Melville Island

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra. Joondalup Art Award, Joondalup, Western Australia; Finalist Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Joondalup Art Award, Joondalup, Western Australia 2001 - Finalist, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

as Warnayaka Art Centre in Lajamanu, Warlukurlangu Artists in Yuendumu, Ngaruwanajirri on Bathurst Island

as Warnayaka Art Centre in Lajamanu, Warlukurlangu Artists in Yuendumu, Ngaruwanajirri on Bathurst Island

Dots , Art Mob, Hobart, TAS SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1987 – 4th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Perth Musee La Grange, Switzerland AWARDS 1987 – Finalist, 4th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award 1989 – Winner, 6th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award 1993 – Northern