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Nginaki awa jilamara art centre ngawa nganuwaluwa ngiramini ngini Tiwi jilamara.

This is our art centre and culture place.
Here we teach our young ones culture
to keep it strong

Painting jilamara with pwoja

Jilamara History

Jilamara Arts tayikwapi.

Jilamara Arts is a place for everyone.

Anwungarra ngaparnurrmi nirruwaripa awungarra amintiya learn nirrami ngini ngawa culture amintinya art.

Come and learn about our culture and understand our art.

Timothy Cook at work in his studio.

CULTURE MAN PEDRO WONAEAMIRRI: talking stories

@jilamaraartsandcrafts

Posted @withregram • @michaelreidberlin ABC Radi

Posted @withregram • @michaelreidberlin ABC Radio Darwin interview featuring our current exhibition from TIMOTHY COOK up on ArtTube now. Listen to the whole thing through the link in our bio 🔗

Jilamara Arts Centre on the Tiwi Islands and our art gallery, Michael Reid Berlin, couldn't be further apart and despite restrictions being faced in every corner of the globe, the artworks of Tiwi artist TIMOTHY COOK made it to Berlin and are now on view in a solo exhibition.

Tamara Howie is a Territorian (from the NT) currently living in Berlin, a journalist & arts writer who made the leap from Australia to Germany shortly before COVID hit in early 2020. In this interview with @abcdarwin radio, @tamara_howie sat down with Berlin Gallery Manager, Lily Fenwicke to discuss how the exhibition came to be and how art by Indigenous Australian artists is being received & understood in a European context.

Thank you to Tamara, the team at ABC Radio Darwin, and to Timothy Cook and the staff at Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association on Melville Island.

@jilamaraartsandcrafts #timothycook #jilamaraartsandcrafts #tiwiart #abcdarwin #abcradio #weareglobal #michaelreidberlin

On through this month at Japingka Gallery in Frema

On through this month at Japingka Gallery in Fremantle....a great group exhibition by a selection of emerging and established artists working at Jilamara Arts

Posted @withregram • @japingka_ Jilamara Arts, ochre paintings on canvas, through April at Japingka
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Our thoughts are with everyone in Germany through

Our thoughts are with everyone in Germany through challenging times, we hope Timothy’s amazing new paintings are bringing some joy to those in Berlin.

Posted @withregram • @michaelreidberlin 'Jilamara', 2020
by TIMOTHY COOK
natural ochres on linen
90 x 90 cm
Catalogue No: 479-20

All jilamara (design) are originally drawn from the body painting which accompanied the pukumani (funeral) and kulama (initiation/yam) ceremonies. An individual design and aesthetic is highly valued by Tiwi artists and is representative of their personal interpretation of the traditional Tiwi design or jilamara.

@jilamaraartsandcrafts #timothycook #jilamaraartsandcrafts #tiwiart #ochrepainting #weareglobal #michaelreidberlin

Making tunga (Tiwi bark bags) in the Murrunungumir

Making tunga (Tiwi bark bags) in the Murrunungumirri Carvers Shed at Jilamara Arts and passing this great knowledge onto younger artists

#pedrowonaeamirri #wallybrooks #jilamaraartsandcrafts #tiwiart

Thanks for the awesome new steel Tutini stands @el

Thanks for the awesome new steel Tutini stands @ellenasayers_fab !! They are great new addition to the Kutuwulumi Gallery here at Jilamara Arts in Milikapiti...

Yingarti pakitiringa (a big wet season) has meant

Yingarti pakitiringa (a big wet season) has meant a longer that usual time for preparing Stringybark for painting and making tunga (Tiwi bark baskets) at Jilamara Arts!

#jilamaraartsandcrafts #patrickfreddypuruntatameri #pedrowonaeamirri #tiwiart #barkcollecting

An amazing new work by Timothy Cook on show now @m

An amazing new work by Timothy Cook on show now @michaelreidberlin !!

‘Kulama', 2020
by TIMOTHY COOK
natural ochres on linen
90 x 90cm
Catalogue No: 483-20

Posted @withregram • @michaelreidberlin

The Kulama Ceremony is performed in the late wet season (March-April) when a ring appears around the moon. Kulama is a traditional initiation for young men which coincides with the harvest of a certain wild yam species. Elders of both sexes sing and dance for three days welcoming the boys into adulthood. The boy is then renamed with his true man’s name.

@jilamaraartsandcrafts #timothycook #jilamaraartsandcrafts #tiwiart #ochrepainting #weareglobal #michaelreidberlin

Great Jilamara Arts group exhibition at Japingka G

Great Jilamara Arts group exhibition at Japingka Gallery in WA...wish we could all be there!

Posted @withregram • @japingka_ Jilamara artists from Tiwi Islands exhibiting ochre paintings at Japingka Gallery this weekend
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Now open in Berlin — Timothy Cook’s new exhibi

Now open in Berlin — Timothy Cook’s new exhibition at Michael Reid Gallery!

Posted @withregram • @michaelreidart Timothy Cook Now Open in Berlin

Michael Reid Berlin is now the only Australian based art gallery with an operating art space that remains open internationally. We remain committed to exhibiting the very best of Australian art overseas. Thank you Timothy Cook for working with my colleagues, to uphold this tradition. #michaelreidberlin #australianart #australianartist @artcollectormagazine @vaultartmagazine @_artshub

After a big wet and another year and we are back o

After a big wet and another year and we are back over at Wurrumiyanga on Bathurst Island for the Tiwi Grand Final. Go Imulu, our fellow Melville team from Pirlangimpi!!

It will be a great day out tomorrow, Sunday 21st. Jilamara Arts and Munupi will be set up in the school Gym on main st, Ngaruwanajirri have an amazing space near Forrestry and there’s always Tiwi Design near the barge landing. We will be set up early so plenty of great Tiwi art so see before the game kicks off at 2pm!

📸 number 6 — isn’t home always appealing from a distance: a rainbow over Paru on Melville Island from the shore of the big smoke Wurrumiyanga

#tiwifootyfinal #jilamaraartsandcrafts #munupiarts #tiwiart

Pedro Wonaeamirri painting Jilamara (Tiwi body pai

Pedro Wonaeamirri painting Jilamara (Tiwi body paint design) on Timothy Cook for yoyi (dance) at Timrambu, Melville Island.... details below for Tim’s exciting upcoming exhibition @michaelreidberlin !

Posted @withregram • @michaelreidberlin TIMOTHY COOK
at Michael Reid Berlin
19 March - 1 May 2021

Commencing this week, a solo exhibition from renowned Tiwi artist Timothy Cook. Our VIP Preview catalogue will be distributed on Wednesday. Be sure not to miss out.

REGISTER INTEREST: galleryassistant@michaelreid.com.au

Image courtesy of the artist and Jilamara Arts and Crafts.
Photo: Will Heathcote

@jilamaraartsandcrafts #timothycook #jilamaraartsandcrafts #tiwiart #ochrepainting #weareglobal #michaelreidberlin

So pleased to see this exhibition coming together!

So pleased to see this exhibition coming together! Timothy Cook at Michael Reid Gallery in Berlin. We of course won’t be there, but for those that can there will be some absolutely stunning works on show, like this one pictured with Timothy on the beach at Milikapiti with Mananowmi (Timothy’s country) in the distant background...

Posted @withregram • @michaelreidberlin COMING NEXT WEEK:
Timothy Cook
at Michael Reid Berlin
19 March - 17 April 2021

We are so pleased to be presenting an exhibition of works from renowned Tiwi artist Timothy Cook this month.

REGISTER INTEREST in the preview catalogue going out early this week: galleryassistant@michaelreid.com.ai

Image courtesy of the artist and Jilamara Arts and Crafts.
Photo: Will Heathcote

@jilamaraartsandcrafts #timothycook #jilamaraartsandcrafts #tiwiart #ochrepainting #weareglobal #michaelreidberlin

Opening today in Fremantle a Jilamara Arts group e

Opening today in Fremantle a Jilamara Arts group exhibition @japingka_ ! You can have a look online as well at japingkaaboriginalart.com. A great selection of 18 jilamara artists — both young and senior on display. Thanks for the images Japingka 📸

#jilamaraartsandcrafts #tiwiart #japingkagallery

It is the last weekend to catch the TIWI exhibitio

It is the last weekend to catch the TIWI exhibition at the NGV! It is a shame that after years of work from everyone @jilamaraartsandcrafts and other Tiwi art centres that we all could not travel to see the show in person, but great to see it shared by so many that can....thanks for the great images Brook!

Posted @withregram • @brook_andrew_artist ❤️🖤✨#TIWI celebrates the unique art and culture of the Tiwi people of Melville and Bathurst Islands and explores the dynamic trajectory of Tiwi art across time and across media, from 1911 to now. TIWI comprises 153 works rigorously selected from the NGV collection, supplemented by 130 loans of rare historical objects and contemporary works drawn from Australian public and private collections.

TIWI focuses on art, which is just one part of a performative tableau of oral, visual and dance culture that embraces Tiwi identity. The original inhabitants of Melville and Bathurst Islands, the Tiwi, have been separated from mainland Aboriginal peoples and from murrintawi (white people) for much of their history. Evidence of Tiwi ingenuity, brought about in part by their geographical position, is found in their language, customary ceremonies, material culture, kinship system, and sexual politics. The two principal cultural events for the Tiwi are the pukumani (mourning) and kulama (coming of age) ceremonies, both of which are unrestricted in relation to age and gender.

Tiwi art is intimately connected with song and dance and with jilamara, the idiosyncratic body painting designs with which performers celebrate kulama and conceal their identity from mapurtiti (spirits of the deceased) for pukumani ceremonies. The spirit of each work resides in the Tiwi notion of individual creativity, expressed through turtiyanginari (colour), patterns of marlipinyini (lines), kurluwukari (circles) and pwanga (dots), and the randomness of the decoration. For Tiwi people, to sing is to dance is to paint. A painted design on any surface has deep associations with singing and dancing and elements of Tiwi language and culture that are non-verbal.

It is the last weekend to see the TIWI exhibition

It is the last weekend to see the TIWI exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria! So many great works also viewable online with a virtual tour.

The exhibition not only showcases historical Tiwi art but also contemporary work by many @jilamaraartsandcrafts artists such as #pedrowonaeamirri #timothycook #michellewoodyminnapinni #kayebrown #johnathonworldpeacebush #conradtipungwuti — all featured in this short taken from the virtual tour!

Posted @withregram • @ngvmelbourne Explore TIWI, the largest exhibition of Tiwi art ever presented, in person or online with our new virtual exhibition tour.

With works that range from 1911 to 2020, the exhibition highlights the work of great Tiwi historical and contemporary artists and explores Tiwi art across time and media.

Follow the link in bio to visit the TIWI virtual tour or head to The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square to see the exhibition in person.

#NGVEveryDay #NGVTIWI

Thanks for sharing your visit to the TIWI exhibiti

Thanks for sharing your visit to the TIWI exhibition @ngvmelbourne Travis Curtain. It is great to see as everyone here @jilamaraartsandcrafts wish we could have travelled to see it in person after years of preparation...

It is the last week to see an amazing collection of Tiwi art, from parlingarri (past) and ningani (today)!

Posted @withregram • @calypso_werewolf The old and the new, together in TIWI @ngvmelbourne a truly remarkable exhibition and the final exhibition curated by Judith Ryan AM with the NGV, after 44 years 💛 @jilamaraartsandcrafts @munupiarts

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