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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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!

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.

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.

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.