National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne VIC 1998 - 15th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Collection, Gallerie Australis, Adelaide SA 2001 - 15th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander

prize in the General Painting section of the of the 22nd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

his mother’s country, the area surrounding four pyramidal hills, the Four Arches, some 45 kilometers inland The following year he won the National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Heritage Commission Art

He was born on a distant island and traveled to the Kimberley as a cyclone. As he moved on inland he created places of ‘living water’ (permanent water sources) and visited other

Ground Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth, WA. 2009 - : 26th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists, Hogarth Galleries, NSW; Australian Heritage Commission National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Namadbara, Nobadbara Paddy Compass Namatbara began painting at the Methodist mission at Minjilang (Croker Island These artists found that the Methodist mission on Croker Island allowed them a greater degree of artistic

It won the 16th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, for works on paper.

The interest of the art world had turned to the Tiwi Islands. Though the Tiwi were historically unwelcoming towards visitors to their islands, much evidence of trade

Artists: Carol Puruntatameri & Alison Puruntatameri Presented in collaboration with Munupi Arts, Tiwi Islands

Gallery of NSW, Sydney 2014 Franchesca Cubillo and Wally Caruana (eds) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Aboriginal Art, an Exhibition Presented by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Artists: Carol Puruntatameri & Alison Puruntatameri Presented in collaboration with Munupi Arts, Tiwi Islands