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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

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Posted @withregram • @ausindigenousfashion Start

Posted @withregram • @ausindigenousfashion Starting the year in spectacular style!

This silk dress from @albertinicouture is a one off featuring Murranga print by artist Dino Wilson of @jilamaraartsandcrafts

#aboriginaltextiles #aboriginalartist #firstnations #fashioncollaboration #australianartist #australianfashion #curatedinsta

Posted @withregram • @52artists52actions ‘This

Posted @withregram • @52artists52actions ‘This is my Country – Maniyampi, Paluwiyanga, Andranganoo, Goose Creek. It is freshwater country, wetlands. [There are] many birds and aviary here. There are brolga and magpie goose that we hunt for food’ – Pedro Wonaeamirri, Jilamara Arts

“이 곳 구스 크릭의 안드랑가누 팔루위양가 미니얌피는 나의 컨트리입니다. 이곳은 신선한 물이 흐르는 습지입니다. 여러 새의 서식지가 있고, 우리가 양식으로 삼는 브롤가 새와 까치 거위도 서식하고 있습니다.” – 페드로 워내미리, 질라마라 아트

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#pedrowonaeaemirri
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#tiwiislands
#goosecreek
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This week Jilamara Arts takes over the @52artists5

This week Jilamara Arts takes over the @52artists52actions handle to celebrate the amazing exhibition #unlearningaustralia @seoulmuseumofart . The three artists from Jilamara in the exhibition in South Korea Pedro Wondaeamirri, Timothy Cook and Johnathon Bush are all from the same Country on the Tiwi Islands, Paluwiyanga/Andranganoo (Goose Creek)….. this week they share a small insight into this incredible place.

Posted @withregram • @52artists52actions Tiwi people get their Country and their Dance from their father’s family and their Tribe from their mother’s side.

티위족 사람들은 부계 가족과 모계 부족의 컨트리와 춤을 이어받습니다.

The Tiwi Islands are comprised of many Countries and sub-regions to which many different family groups belong. ‘경로를 재탐색합니다
UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA’ artists Timothy Cook, Pedro Wonaeamirri and Johnathon World Peace Bush all belong to Paluwiyanga, Andranganoo in the east of Melville Island.

티위 제도는 다양한 가족 집단이 속한 여러 컨트리와 하위 지역으로 구성되어 있다. 《경로를 재탐색합니다 UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA》 참여 작가인 티모시 쿡과 페드로 워내미리, 조너선 월드 피스 부시는 모두 멜빌 섬 동쪽에 위치한 안드랑가누 팔루위양가에서 활동 중이다.

Posted @withregram • @michaelreidberlin ≡ 2021

Posted @withregram • @michaelreidberlin ≡ 2021 Highlight ≡

From the Tiwi Islands, all the way to Berlin, we were thrilled to present a suite of paintings from Tiwi artist TIMOTHY COOK in Berlin earlier this year.

All jilamara (design) are originally drawn from the body painting which accompanies 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.

We look forward to sharing more from the Tiwi Islands, one of the most northern parts of Australia, in 2022

#2021highlight @jilamaraartsandcrafts #timothycook #jilamaraartsandcrafts #tiwiart #ochrepainting #weareglobal #michaelreidberlin

It is the last day to see Dino Wilson’s latest e

It is the last day to see Dino Wilson’s latest exhibition @vivienandersongallery in Melbourne! Here are some of the amazing new paintings he has on show and a shot of the last time we saw them in the Jilamara gallery on the Tiwis before they all moved south.

“Warnarringa Jilamara: painting under the Tiwi sun” — all locally sourced natural ochres on linen.

“This painting is Warnarringa — that is the sun in Tiwi. In Tiwi the red ochre is yellow that we burn on the fire — it is the colour of the sun. Murtankala is our creation story — that old lady came up when it was all dark and she made light with yikwani (fire) and it became the sun.” Dino Wilson

Congratulations on another amazing exhibition Dino!

#dinowilson #jilamaraartsandcrafts #vivienandersongallery #tiwiart #naturalochres

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We always love seeing where the amazing art made h

We always love seeing where the amazing art made here in Milikapiti ends up, particularly this very special ochre painting by Dino Wilson. Thanks for sharing John Wardle Architects, looks amazing and can’t wait to see the space come together!

Posted @withregram • @johnwardlearchitects Our Collingwood studio looks a little different at the moment. While many office workers have returned to their workplaces, we're awaiting the completion of some exciting renovations. One new arrival has made its way to our studio however – an extraordinary painting by Dino Wilson titled Ngiya Murrakupupuni. Dino Wilson is an emerging artist at Jilamara Arts and Craft Association on Melville Island, Tiwi where he began painting in 2017.⁠
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John visited Jilamara earlier this year. He met several local artists and other practice friends we've developed longstanding relationships with. It's a beautiful place, so it's wonderful to have a piece of Tiwi in our studio.⁠
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We've also spent the past 18 months working on our Reconciliation Action Plan. So the painting is a vivid reminder of how important it is to connect to Country and First Nations people.⁠
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More of Wilson's masterful paintings can be seen in his exhibition 'Warnarringa Jilamara - Painting under the Tiwi sun' at the Vivien Anderson Gallery in St Kilda. The exhibition runs until 18th December.⁠
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@jilamaraartsandcrafts @vivienandersongallery

Posted @withregram • @nationalgalleryaus Congrat

Posted @withregram • @nationalgalleryaus Congratulations to Timothy Cook, Tiwi people, as the recipient of the Established Artist award at the @auscouncilarts 2021 National Arts and Disability Awards!

Timothy is one of the Tiwi Islands’ most decorated living artists. His contributions to art making on the islands is reaffirmed by his national and international successes as a painter and spokesperson for Tiwi people. Timothy’s work is represented in the National Collection and currently two of his paintings are featured in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art galleries here on level 1.

Coming up through the Ngawa Mantawi (Our Friends Together) disability support program established at @jilamaraartsandcrafts in the 1990s, Timothy has fulfilled the ambitions of the original program in establishing a significant contemporary art career through working at the centre. He continues to redefine the limitless possibilities of working as a professional artist with support needs, carving a pathway for future generations of young Tiwi and First Nations people with and without special needs.

“Japarra is the moon – it also means Moonman. He is important to the Tiwi people, they know. Japalinga means stars.
I like painting for culture way – Kulama – that means painting culture. We teach culture. Kulama also mean yam – they eat that one, they get it from the ground and eat it. Kulama is ceremony where they yoi [dance].
I paint Japarra, Kulama and Japalinga.
I will take a painting to heaven so my mother will recognise me.” – Timothy Cook

[Timothy Cook, Tiwi people, Kulama, 2012, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, Purchased 2013. © Timothy Cook/Copyright Agency.]

Congratulations Timothy Cook for just being announ

Congratulations Timothy Cook for just being announced the recipient of Australia Council’s Arts and Disability Award for an Established Artist!

This award is such a welcomed acknowledgment of Timothy’s amazing contribution to the arts for over the last two decades. Timothy is such a celebrated member of Ngawa Mantawi — a program at Jilamara Arts and Crafts established in the 1990s to support people with diverse needs to live and work as artists in Milikapiti close to family and Country. Timothy continues to be a role model in the small local community for his internationally recognised artwork.

Congratulations to the other award recipients — Georgia Scott and Eliza Hull!

These awards are such a great celebration of diversity in the arts sector, congratulations to everyone involved!

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#artsanddisabilityawards #timothycook #jilamaraartsandcrafts #tiwiart #milikapiti

There is a great write up in the latest edition of

There is a great write up in the latest edition of Art Collector on Dino Wilson’s current exhibition at Vivien Anderson Gallery!

Posted @withregram • @artcollectormagazine "Dino Wilson’s explosive shapes and ochre colours portray the essence and the histories of the coming of the Tiwi sun," writes Louise Martin-Chew in Art Collector's current issue.

Wilson's exhibition 'Warnarringa Jilamara – Painting under the Tiwi sun' opened this week at @vivienandersongallery, Naarm/Melbourne. The artist's work evokes, in his own words, “Warnarringa – the sun in Tiwi. That wulimaka (old lady) Murntankala, brought warnarringa to the Tiwi Islands parl- ingarri (creation times). She made fire when everything was all dark and brought sun to the Tiwi Islands – that is our story.”

A 2021 Telstra NATSIAA finalist and recent recipient of the Award of Excellence in the National Emerging Art Prize, Wilson's work has been in high demand in recent years. Jilamara coordinator Will Heathcote @willheathcote_art recalls, “As his show was hung in Melbourne last year, people walked in off the street in St Kilda, people not involved in the Indigenous art market, to buy the work.”

See 'Warnarringa Jilamara – Painting under the Tiwi sun' at @vivienandersongallery, Melbourne, and pick up a copy of the magazine to read more.

With restrictions easing in Victoria, why not head

With restrictions easing in Victoria, why not head out and see this incredible exhibition in person!! We are unable to be there at this time, but Dino Wilson has put together another amazing show of new paintings for those in Victoria….go Dino you absolute star 💫💫💫

Posted @withregram • @vivienandersongallery Dino Wilson’s salute to the Tiwi Sun is up and ready to view!☀️☀️☀️☀️
We welcome you to join us for the opening tomorrow, sadly Dino is unable to join us due to strict border closures between Northern Territory and Victoria, but we will ensure he shares in your enthusiasm for this powerful body of work OPENING WEDNESDAY 17 NOVEMBER - DINO WILSON: WARNARRINGA JILAMARA - PAINTING UNDER THE TIWI SUN, in association with Jilamara Arts and Crafts. Refreshments provided.

Please note, visitors will be required to check-in on arrival and show proof of full vaccination or medical exemption before entering the gallery. Masks are required for visitors aged 12 years and older.

Congratulations Dino Wilson! Posted @withregram

Congratulations Dino Wilson!

Posted @withregram • @nationalemergingartprize Congratulations to NEAP 2021 Award of Excellence DINO WILSON for his stunning piece 'Warntarringa (Sun)'.

All works are available for purchase from midday today at www.nationalemergingartprize.com.au.

The finalists exhibition will be open for viewing from the 6th - 20th:
Where: 105 Kippax Street, Surry Hills
Opening Hours: Wednesday - Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am to 3pm.

@nationalemergingartprize #nationalemergingartprize #artprize #australianartist #australianceramics

Thanks everyone for another great zoom meeting for

Thanks everyone for another great zoom meeting for the ANKA AGM — connecting across the Tiwis from the Kutuwulumi Gallery here at Jilamara Arts and Crafts.

Pedro Wonaeamirri and Brook Andrew having a yarn a

Pedro Wonaeamirri and Brook Andrew having a yarn across continents for Enquiry Week at Gropius Bau in Berlin! Saturday night for us here, but an early morning start for all in Germany.

They are talking about Jilamara artist led collaborative film project YOYI, Tiwi ceremonial ornaments, the Pukumani ceremony and a whole range of fascinating insights in indigenous art, culture and representation

#brookandrew #pedrowonaeamirri #jilamaraartsandcrafts #gropiusbau

Congratulations Dino Wilson for taking home the Aw

Congratulations Dino Wilson for taking home the Award of Excellence at the National Emerging Art Prize — announced last night! A big congratulations to award recipients Andrea Sinclair and Patricia Smart and all the other finalists in the exhibition.

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Posted @withregram • @michaelreidart @amber_creswell_bell

Last night I had the great pleasure of presenting at the inaugural National Emerging Art Prize finalists’ exhibition.

I’m thrilled to announce the overall winner for painting went to Andrea Sinclair for her work ‘Flossie.’

The award of excellence went to Dino Wilson for his work ‘Warntarringa (Sun)’.

And the overall winner for ceramics was Patricia Smart for her work ‘Biodiversity’.

With 1500 entries submitted, and such a high caliber of talent- the selection process was very challenging! A huge congratulations to these 3 exceptional artists for taking out the main prizes.

All the finalist works will go on sale today (Saturday) 6th November at midday at www.nationalemergingartprize.com.au.

The exhibition will be open to view in person Wednesday to Friday (10-5) and Saturday (10-3) from tomorrow until 20th November.

The gallery is located at:

Standard House
Mezzanine Level
105 Kippax Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010

@nationalemergingartprize @morgans.australia @michaelreid.northernbeaches

Jilamara artists are part of a major installation

Jilamara artists are part of a major installation of locally sourced natural Tiwi ochres on paper currently on show @agsa.adelaide for @tarnanthi! If you are in Adelaide and have the chance, it is a great cross-section of artists working across the Tiwi Islands…

Using natural earth pigments on 640gsm cold pressed archers paper is a long standing practice at art centres on the islands and to celebrate Jilamara has had a range of historical works available online through Tarnanthi Online Art Fair and now on the Jilamara Arts and Crafts website….please visit www.jilamara.com to view these amazing works…

#jilamaraartsandcrafts #agsa #tarnanthi #tiwiart #ochresonpaper

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