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Pedro Wonaeamirri speaks and performs in Venice during the Biennale!

This year Pedro has been a Mordant Family BLAK C.O.R.E Fellow through the University of Melbourne’s Museums and Collections Department. As part of the fellowship Pedro travelled to Venice to speak with Jilamara manager Will Heathcote at the Indigenous…

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Johnathon World Peace Bush commissioned for My Country exhibition at the NGV!

Johnathon World Peace Bush has been commissioned to produce one of his biggest projects to date for the Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions, opening at NGV Australia this March. For the project he was mentored by senior artist Pedro Wonaeamirr…

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Johnathon World Peace Bush at The Armory Show: New York’s Art Fair

This September Johnathon World Peace Bush is showing a suite of new works at The Armory Show: New York’s Art Fair at the Javits Center, New York City. Johnathon will be showing with Melbourne based gallery THIS IS NO FANTASY alongside Kokatha and Nukun…

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Johnathon World Peace Bush and Jilamara Crew Travel for Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks!

Johnathon Bush, Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri and Jilamara Coordinator Will Heathcote travelled to Sydney for the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair this September. This was Johnathon’s first major showing with his new gallery THIS IS NO FANTASY and it was gr…

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Columbiere Tipungwuti featured in Art Collector!

Columbiere Tipungwuti featured in the 2022 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair edition of Art Collector! Get in quick this August at the art fair or Jilamara’s concurrent Hilton Double Tree Exhibition (Darwin Festival Program), to secure one of his few unique J…

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Four Jilamara Artists selected for National Works on Paper!

Congratulations to Michelle Woody Minnapinni, Columbiere Tipungwuti, Pedro Wonaeamirri and Timothy Cook for being selected as finalists in the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery’s National Works on Paper announced this month AUG 2022. Using locally…

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Timothy Cook: Recipient of the National Arts and Disability Award

Congratulations Timothy for being awarded the Australia Council’s Arts and Disability Award from an Established Artist. This award acknowledges Timothy’s huge contribution to the national arts as a person who has worked for many years as part of Jilama…

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Dino Wilson Award of Excellence at the National Emerging Art Prize!

Congratulations to both Dino Wilson and Michelle Woody Minnapinni for being selected as finalists in the National Emerging Art Prize 2021 at Michael Reid Gallery in Sydney!   A special shout out to Dino for taking home the Award of Excellence! Ple…

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Jilamara Buffalo Hunt Story on ICTV!

Jilamara Arts and Crafts recently produced a 2 great news stories in Tiwi language for ICTV. The stories show Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri and a few other Jilamara members collecting stringybark and ironwood for carving as well as going on a Buffalo hu…

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Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri on Going Places with Ernie Dingo!

Senior Jilamara carver and artist Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri is featured on a recent episode of Ernie Dingo’s Going Places on SBS featuring the Tiwi Islands! The show presents him exhibiting his amazing skills at collectioning ironwood and ochres fro…

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NORTH: Tiwi Strong Women Collection

The Tiwi Strong Women’s Collection is a collaboration between non-profit enterprise NORTH & Jilamara, Munupi & Ngaruwanajirri Art Centres. Jilamara artists Dymphna Kerinauia, Kaye Brown, Michelle Woody’s screen printed designs feature in this c…

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Jilamara are recruiting a new Manager & Arts Coordinator!

Located 100 kms north of Darwin in the picturesque seaside community of Milikapiti on Melville Island, Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association is an indigenous owned, non-profit arts organisation surrounded by beautiful beaches and bushland. Jilamara is a…

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Backroads on Iview

Check out Backroads on ABC iview to learn more about the Tiwi Islands and see a snippet of Jilamara! “Reported with warm-hearted curiosity by triple J newsreader Brooke Boney, this episode of the ABC’s ongoing exploration of Australia’s remote or littl…

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Kaye Brown Nominated 2018 NATSIAA Awards!

This year, a very special piece Kaye Brown’s artwork has been selected as a finalist in the NATSIAA awards!

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Pedro Addresses the Vatican in Rome

The Australia Catalogue in the Vatican Museums was launched in Rome on May 28th & Pedro attended as a representative of Jilamara.

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Jilamara Screen Printing is Back!

The Jilamara screen printing workshop is back in action after 2 VERY productive weeks of creativity, thanks to Timothy Growcott & funding assistance from the ABA.

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Tiwi Art feature: Together We Fly

We were SO excited to see Jilamara artists & Tiwi mob from across the Island featured in Air North’s Together We Fly April/May issue.

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