Columbiere is a personality on the Tiwi Islands who is hard to miss. Although coming to art making later in life, he is quickly establishing himself as a painter that draws on old stories and designs to create new and exciting work. He travels between the island communities regularly and everyone knows when he’s in…

Freda was born around 1928 in the bush on her own country Mirrikawuyanga on Melville Island.  Catholic Missionaries raised Freda after she was taken from her parents. She did not know her age and may even have been born later than 1923. She remembered being at Pirlangimpi on Melville Island during the Second World War and hiding…

Linus Warlapinni worked with the Conservation Commission for many years in Parks and Wildlife. On his retirement from the Commission he became a plant operator with the Council, driving large machinery building and maintaining roads and airstrips on Melville Island. When he needed to spend more time caring for his family, he decided to draw…