To celebrate NAIDOC week come and see us at the National Indigenous Art Fair this weekend at Circular Quay on Gadagal Country!

🖤💛❤️ Shop ethical, authentic First Nations art
🎶 Experience live music, dance, and cultural performances
🎨 Join exclusive workshops with remote Indigenous artists
🍲 Explore bushfood, handmade goods, and more

Come celebrate culture, creativity, and community by the harbour.

📍 Sydney Overseas Passenger Terminal, The Rocks
📅 [10am-5pm Sat & 10am- 4pm Sun]

#NIAF2025 #IndigenousArtFair #SupportFirstNationsArtists #BlakDesign #CulturalCelebration #TheRocksSydney #jilamaraartsandcrafts #tiwiart

For those lucky enough to be in Darwin this weekend please join us for a publication launch, artist talks and Yoyi (dance) this afternoon at Midpul Gallery in Charles Darwin University’s new city campus!

The exhibition Yipairraya arnuwujaputi / Tide going out, tide coming in ... celebrates the 35 year history of Jilamara Arts and the Muluwurri Museum as it developed from Adult Education in the mid 1980s to a thriving art centre and cultural hub of Milikapiti. The exhibition is comprised of both new and historical works loaned from the art centres collection and CDU — including recent gifts from Anne Marchement who helped establish the museum and incorporate the art centre in 1988.

In partnership with Charles Darwin University this project has been a great professional development opportunity for both artists and art staff at Jilamara as we all worked towards realising the exhibition and publishing a catalogue ✨✨

4:45pm
Gallery talk with Anne Marchment and Michelle Pulatuwayu Woody,
Early days of Jilamara Arts and Crafts and the Muluwurri Mueum Collection
Midpul Art Gallery at CDU in partnership with Jilamara Arts and Crafts
54 Cavenagh Street, Darwin

5:30pm
Exhibition party and Catalogue launch: Yipairraya arnuwujaputi / Tide going out, tide coming in ...
Midpul Art Gallery at CDU in partnership with Jilamara Arts and Crafts
54 Cavenagh Street, Darwin

@midpulartgallery @charlesdarwinuniversity
#jilamaraartsandcrafts #muluwurrimuseum #tiwiart #milikapiti

If you happen to be in Sydney this weekend and are passionate about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art make sure you make visit Jilamara’s current exhibition at the University of New South Wales Galleries ✨✨✨

Parlingarri Amintiya Ningani Awungarri: Old and New at Jilamara Arts spans all six gallery spaces at the University and celebrates a cross-section of the incredible art work that has emerged from the small community of Milikapiti during Jilamara’s 35year history. It includes both new and histroical works loaned from a variety of collections including the Muluwurri Museum housed at the art centre.

The exhibition is curated by @inventaire in partnership with the team at Jilamara and we thank the whole team @unswgalleries for making this ambitious project possible!

University of New South Wales Galleries
Cnr Oxford St and Greens Rd, Paddington NSW 2021
Exhibition Open: 24 May — 10 August Wednesday — Sundays

#jilamaraartsandcrafts #tiwiart #unswgalleries #milikapiti #tiwiislands

This Saturday Jilamara launches a new publication for the current exhibition at the Midpul Gallery in CDU’s new city campus. With artists talks and performance this launch is part of a huge weekend of art events around the opening of the NATSIA finalist exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery of the NT ✨

Join us for an amazing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual arts and performing arts celebration!

Saturday 21st June 2025 - Monday 26th January 2026 10:00am - 4:00pm
Exhibition: 2025 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT)
19 Conacher Street, The Gardens

Saturday 21st June

10:00am
Exhibition Opening: Cassaria Hogan Young and Carol Young
Laundry Gallery, 1/1 Vickers St, Parap

10:30am
Exhibition Opening: Warlukurlangu Artists - Rising Stars
Pop up @ Parap, Outstation Gallery
8 Parap Place, Parap

11:00am
Artist Talk with Gary Lee and friends, Queer Territory exhibition
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA)
Vimy Lane, Parap

12:30pm
Exhibition Opening: Nyangulya Katie Nalgood - Paja Jirrgu Wanti (Big Mob of Birds) and the opening of the new Waterfront Gallery Space
Outstation Gallery
Shop E4A (Next to Surf, Dive & Ski) Wharf 1
Darwin Waterfront

4:00pm
Garrmalang retrospective: Our Elders - Curated one on one conversations
Studio Theatre, Darwin Entertainment Centre
93 Mitchell Street, Darwin

4:45pm
Gallery talk with Anne Marchment and Michelle Pulatuwayu Woody,
Early days of Jilamara Arts and Crafts and the Muluwurri Mueum Collection
Midpul Art Gallery at CDU in partnership with Jilamara Arts and Crafts
54 Cavenagh Street, Darwin

5:30pm
Exhibition party and Catalogue launch: Yipairraya arnuwujaputi / Tide going out, tide coming in ...
Midpul Art Gallery at CDU in partnership with Jilamara Arts and Crafts
54 Cavenagh Street, Darwin

5:30pm
Exhibition Opening: Garrmalang Photographic Retrospective
The Gallery
Darwin Entertainment Centre
93 Mitchell Street, Darwin
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7:30pm
Garrmalang Festival event:
Dan Sultan with the Darwin
Symphony Orchestra Quintet
The Playhouse
Darwin Entertainment Centre
93 Mitchell Street, Darwin
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Locally produced Jilamara fabrics and garment designs starring at Barunga Festival on the weekend as part of UNEARTHED 2025✨✨✨

Big shout out to the amazing Jilamara models DK and Columbiere Tipungwuti — as well as Cassie Putuntatameri @cassie.black_ for putting this great festival show together!

These garments are made locally in Milikapiti by the team at Jilamara Arts with Art Centre Manager and sewing guru Hannah Raisin @hannahraisin_art using fabrics hand screen-printed at the art centre by local staff.

Stay tuned as this community-based fashion project has also been shortlisted for NIFA 2025 — Community Collaboration Award @indigenousfashionprojects

Photography: @daveblakephoto

@barungafest
#columbieretipungwuti #jilamaraarts #cassiepuruntatameri #barungafestival #tiwiart #indigenousfashion

Jilamara’s Walter Brooks and an amazing group of future art centre leaders have been part of this years ANKA Artsworker Extension Program! Today they have been in Melbourne working at the University and visiting the Potter Museum — tomorrow they present public presentations at the Grimwade Centre. Friends in Melbourne please see details below…✨✨✨

💥 One day to go // MELBOURNE, 12th June💥

Opening new pathways: employment and leadership in remote Aboriginal art and culture centres

What does leadership look like in a remote Aboriginal art and culture centre?

What role do Aboriginal art and culture centres play in keeping culture strong and communities connected?

ANKA in partnership with the University of Melbourne Grimwade Centre invites you to a public event in Melbourne. You’ll hear directly from cultural leaders who work at the heart of Aboriginal art and culture centres in remote Northern Australia.

Presenters will address their roles, daily life and leadership in their communities and how they are sustaining and growing culture today.

🟠 Event details

Melbourne
📅 TOMORROW | 🕠 5:30–7:00 pm
📍 University of Melbourne, Fritz Loewe Theatre

📧 RSVP: awepprogram@anka.org.au – let us know if you can attend. All welcome!

We had a great couple days in Naarm for the Weekend Conversations program of 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art at the Potter Museum of Art!

Following their inclusion in this incredible exhibition, Johnathon World Peace Bush and Pedro Wonaeamirri spoke with Judith Ryan on Tiwi Art over the years on Saturday. This was followed up with an great discussion on Sunday between Johnathon, Gordon Hookey and Brian Robinson on humour, playfulness and hard truths in their work ✨✨✨

Curated by Professor Marcia Langton AO, Senior Curator Judith Ryan AM and Associate Curator Shanysa McConville this incredible exhibition includes more than 400 works celebrating the brilliance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art while confronting the dark heart of Australia’s colonial history.

@pottermuseum @unimelb
#65000yearsashorthistoryofaustralianart #pedrowonaeamirri #johnathonworldpeacebush #judithryan #gordonhookey #brianrobinson #tiwiart #pottermuseumofart #unimelb

Congratulations Walter Brooks on being selected as a finalist in this year’s Rigg Design Prize at the National Gallery of Victoria. Stayed tuned for an exceptional inter-generational project that will be featured in the exhibition in September! Congratulations mantani ✨✨✨

National Gallery of Victoria • @ngvmelbourne
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The Rigg Design Prize 2025, Australia’s most prestigious accolade for contemporary design, opens 19 September at NGV Australia.

Marking its 10th edition, this landmark Prize brings into focus 35 outstanding Australian designers under the age of 35, working across ceramics, glass, furniture, woodwork, metalwork, textiles, lighting, and contemporary jewellery

Experience the free exhibition, Rigg Design Prize 2025 – Next in Design: 35 under 35 and celebrate the creative excellence of Australia’s early career designers and makers.

With thanks to Major Partner @deakinuniversity and Major Supporter Cicely & Colin Rigg Bequest managed by Equity Trustees.

@ngvmelbourne
#walterbrooks #jilamaraarts #riggdesignprize2025 #ngv #tiwiart

We all had an amazing time at the opening of Parlingarri Amintiya Ningani Awungarra: Old and New at Jilamara Arts — UNSW Galleries in Sydney on Saturday ✨✨✨

After an amazing group artist talk Pedro Wonaeamirri, Arthurina Moreen, Columbiere Tipungwuti, Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri and Janice Murray Pungautiji treated audiences to a Tiwi Yoyi to celebrate the incredible exhibition spanning over three decades across all the spaces in the university’s gallery!

This was Arthurina’s first time singing for Jilamara dancers, go Rina you’re a star!!

@unswgalleries

#rinamoreen #pedrowonaeamirri #columbieretipungwuti #patrickfreddypuruntatameri #janicemurraypungautiji #jilamaraartsandcrafts #tiwiart #milikapiti #yoyi #unswgalleries

Ahead of artists talks at tomorrow’s opening of Parlingarri Amintiya Ningani Awungarra: Old and New at Jilamara Arts @unswgalleries, Pedro Wonaeamirri and the team had the opportunity to deliver an artist talk and workshop as part of the Djamu Program at the Art Gallery of New South Wales yesterday.

It was a great opportunity to share stories about the incredible collection of ochre painted ironwood tutini poles in the gallery’s collection commissioned in 1958 and made by artists and family in Milikapiti — one of the first examples of a commission of its nature where the project was framed as an art commission over an anthropological one. It has been great for Pedro and Patrick Freddy to revisit the works in person after their recent exhibition of 20 tutini poles earlier this year at Art Basel Honk Kong ✨✨✨

@agnsw
#jilamaraartsandcrafts #tiwiart #tutini #pukumaniceremony #pedrowonaeamirri

Last week Jilamara’s head screen-printer Raylene Miller had an amazing time with the team @printshopnt refreshing skills, sharing knowledge and reinstating this great design by Johnathon World Peace Bush✨✨✨

Printshop • @printshopnt
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Last week we had screen-printer Raylene White from @jilamaraartsandcrafts come in + work alongside the team to refresh her screen exposure skills, so she can keep printing her tees back home on the Tiwi Islands and teach the other printers best practice for screen preparation!

Last week we celebrated the opening of “Yipapirraya arnuwujaputi… Tide going out, tide coming in” at the Midpul Art Gallery in Charles Darwin University’s new city campus.

Organised in partnership with Jilamara Arts and CDU and co-curated by Michelle Pulatuwayu Woody Minnapinni and Joanna Barrkman, this exhibition celebrates the 30 + year history of Jilamara as an arts and culture centre in Milikapiti.

With a range of works from both current and past Jilamara artists the exhibition tracks the origins of Jilamara as an Adult Education Centre specialising in textile arts in the mid 1980s, the development of the Muluwurri Museum collection and incorporation as a Tiwi governed arts centre in the late 80s through to the thriving arts and culture centre it has become today.

For the first time CDU is displaying recent Tiwi acquisitions from Anne and Laurie Marchement’s private collection, historical loans from Jilamara’s Muluwurri Museum as well as new works from the art centre.

In partnership with the University and gallery team this project has also been a great chance for Jilamara staff and artists to build professional development opportunities around developing and realising institutional exhibitions, handling loans and producing a publication ✨✨✨

Now open until July 12th at Midpul Gallery in Charles Darwin University’s Cavenagh St campus there will be a publication launch on Saturday June 21st!

@midpulartgallery @charlesdarwinuniversity
#jilamaraartsandcrafts #tiwiart #midpulgallery #darwin #milikapiti

We are all over moon in the small community of Milikapiti today at the announcement of an exceptional selection of Jilamara artists in this year’s NATSIA Awards!

Congratulations to Pedro Wonaeamirri, Kaye Brown and this year a particular shout out to Barbara Puruntatameri for being a first time finalist and Johnathon World Peace Bush for a very special collaboration with his mother Doriana Bush. You are all super stars ✨ ✨✨✨

We are so excited to see all the finalists amazing art work @mag_nt next month for the opening of the exhibition and to be at the iconic Darwin award announcement night on the gallery lawns on the evening of August 8th!

@mag_nt
#pedrowonaeamirri #kayebrown #barbarapuruntatameri #johnathonworldpeacebush #dorianabush #jilamaraartsandcrafts #tiwiart #natsiaa2025 #telstraawards #natsiaa #museumandartgalleryofthenorthernterritory

Jilamara’s Barbara Puruntatameri on show in great company with some amazing works on stringybark at this year’s Rising Stars exhibition currently open at Darwin’s Waterfront ✨✨✨

Outstation Gallery • @outstation_gallery
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Rising Stars Part 1 is open!

Rising Stars is our annual showcase of extraordinary up-and-coming Aboriginal artists, extending from the Tiwi Islands to the APY lands. This dynamic group exhibition has always been a highlight of Outstation’s art calendar, but this year it is so much more! Not only does it celebrate 17 incredible artists, but it also marks the merging of Paul Johnstone Gallery and Outstation– and is so grand and glorious that it is on show across two incredible locations.

Rising Stars Part 1 is on now at a pop-up space near the Waterfront Lagoon, next to Surf Dive and Ski - if you reach the Oyster Bar you’ve gone too far. This temporary space will feature a range of exhibitions over the coming months while work continues on our permanent gallery by the water, and right now it is alive with breathtaking barks and powerful spirits.

Visit Rising Stars Part 1 and see on the walls the beautiful patterned ochre work of Barbara Puruntatameri from @jilamaraartsandcrafts as well as stunning @bukuartnow barks from Gapaya Munuŋgurr and Merrkiyawuy Munuŋgurr, and from @maningridaarts , a number of fabulous Lucy Yarawanga’s Bawaliba spirits. It’s also worth visiting just to meet the Devil Spirits by @warmunart artist Peter Thomas. They are dark and delightful.

#risingstars #onnow #darwinwaterfront #popup #risingstarspartone #ochreonbark #spirits #outstation #aboriginalart #northernterritory

Michelle Pulatuwayu Woody Minnapinni just announced as a recipient of Kluge-Ruhe Artist Residency at the University of Virginia in 2026 — congratulations mantanga, well deserved ✨✨✨

Congratulations to all the recipients of this program over the next 2 years, we cannot wait to see what great things come of this round of residencies!

Kluge Ruhe • @klugeruhe
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We are pleased to announce the recipients of Creative Australia’s artist residencies for 2025-26 and 2026-27. After a very competitive open call, residencies were awarded to Robert Fielding (@robertfielding_) , Michelle Woody (@michellewoodyminnapinni , Sonja Carmichael (@sonniecarmichael) and Jenna Lee (@jenna.mlee).

Awardees were selected by a committee made up of alumni of Kluge-Ruhe’s artist residency program. “They, better than anyone else, understand the unique opportunities available to artists through engaging with the University of Virginia and the local community,” explained Kluge-Ruhe director Margo Smith.

Margo Smith steps down as director of Kluge-Ruhe on May 19, although she will remain at UVA in an advisory capacity to assist with onboarding her successor until the end of June. To honor her 27 years of service at Kluge-Ruhe, the museum has established a special gift fund. At Smith’s request, contributions to this fund will support Kluge-Ruhe’s artist residency program. “The artist residency program is one of the most remarkable things Kluge-Ruhe does,” said Smith, “and it’s where the magic happens.”

🔗To make a donation in honor of Margo Smith, follow the link in our bio.

Image 1: Michelle Pulatuwayu Woody Minnapinni with Marriwiyi (pandanus skirt) and earth pigment painting Nguyu Murrakupupuni (my Country). Wulirankuwu Country, image courtesy of the artist and Jilamara Arts. Photo: Will Heathcote @willheathcote_art

Image 2: Margo Smith Introducing Barbara Moore and Sharon Adamson during their residency at Kluge-Ruhe, 2019. Photograph by Tom Cogill.

@uva @uvaarts @creative.australia @mimili_maku_arts @jilamaraartsandcrafts

#klugeruhe #klugeruheaboriginalartcollection

What an amazing week @artbasel Hong Kong celebrating Pedro Wonaeamirri and Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri’s exceptional install for the Encounters section of the fair curated by @alexieglass !

The art across the fair was of course incredible, but we also had such a full week of conversations, friends, events and celebrations ✨✨✨

Highlights included a great artist talk for Art Basel Conversations between Encounters curator Alexie Glass, artist Pedro Wonaeamirri and Jilamara manager Will Heathcote last Sunday, Vernissage previews and curatorial floor tours through the week, the balcony at the China Bar for the TATE Cocktail Reception and of course all the great roast duck!

It was a great week and opportunity to share some insights into Pedro and Patrick’s exceptional collection of 20 Tiwi ironwood Tutini poles on an international stage! Well deserved recognition for an amazing work Mamanta! Many thanks to everyone who came together to make this happen ✨✨✨

@stationgalleryaustralia @alexieglass @willheathcote_art
#artbaselhongkong2025 #pedrowonaeamirri #patrickfreddypuruntatameri #jilamaraartsandcrafts #tutini #tiwiart #hongkong

So great to be in Hong Kong for Art Basel this year and for Pedro Wonaeamirri and Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri’s exceptional work to be featured as a highlight amount so much other amazing work ✨✨✨

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📸 #ArtBaselHongKong: As the fair ends its second preview day, discover highlights shot by Art Basel’s official photographers ✨
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📸 #ArtBaselHongKong: As the fair ends it’s second preview day, discover highlights shot by Art Basel’s official photographers ✨

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Credits:
Image 1: View of a work by Lu Yang, presented by de Sarthe in the Encounters sector. © Art Basel

Art Basel’s official show photographers in Hong Kong are Ali Ghorbani, Sunny Hon, Isaac Lawrence, Daniel Murray, and Mike Pickles. The show’s photo editors are Jayne and Alan.