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Aboriginal Artist, Bede Tungutalum first learned designing and printing
in school at Bathurst Island. In 1970, after he finished school,
he began a screen printing business called Tiwi Designs with several
other young Tiwi partners. Tiwi Designs continues to grow, producing
mainly screen printed designs on fabric and is one of the most successful
Aboriginal Art enterprises.
Bede draws on his Tiwi artistic traditions to produce his prints:
“It is good to show the other Australians that we can produce beautiful
works of art, using white mans techniques but doing Aboriginal way
of art."
"What I do at Tiwi Designs is printing and designing. I also do
carving which I enjoy doing most. Now I’m on to canvas painting.
I put a lot of work into this. It’s good to see that other young
Tiwi men are doing carving and canvas painting and also printing
at Tiwi Designs. I hope that Tiwi designs will keep it up in the
future, the good work of art.”
collections
Artbank, Sydney.
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
Campbelltown City Art Gallery.v Central Collection, Australian National
University, Canberra.
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide.
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
Museum of Victoria, Melbourne.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney.
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
University of Queensland, Anthropology Museum, St Lucia.
exhibitions
Group exhibitions
1978 The Territorian Craft Acquisition Award, Crafts Association,
NT.
1984 The First National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum
and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
1984 Aboriginal Art, an Exhibition Presented by the Australian Institute
of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
1985 The Second National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum
and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
1986, The Third National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum
and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
1987 Australian Aboriginal Views in Print and Poster, Print Council
of Australia, travelling exhibition.
1987 The Fourth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum
and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
1988 Australian Aboriginal Graphics from the Collection of the Flinders
University Art Museum.
1988 The Inspired Dream, Life as art in Aboriginal Australia, Museum
and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and touring internationally.
1989 On the edge - five contemporary Aboriginal artists, AGWA, Perth.
1989 Prints by Seven Australian Aboriginal Artists, international
touring exhibition, through Print Council and Department of Foreign
Affairs & Trade.
1989 Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery
of Australia, Canberra.
1989 The Sixth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum
and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
1990 Munupi Dreaming, Shades of Ochre, Darwin.
1990 The Seventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum
and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
1990 Balance 1990: views, visions, influences, QAG, Brisbane.
1992, Working in the Round, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide.
1992/3 New Tracks Old Land: An Exhibition of Contemporary Prints
from Aboriginal Australia, touring USA and Australia.
1993 Ten years of acquisitions, from ANU collection, Drill Hall
Gallery ACT.
1993 The Tenth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum
and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
1994 Malu Urul, National Maritime Museum, Sydney.
1994 The Eleventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum
and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
1995 The Twelfth National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery
of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
bibliography
1989, Nothing to Celebrate? Australian Aboriginal Political Art
and the Bicentennial, exhib. cat., Flinders University Art Museum.
(C)
Butler, R., 1986, ‘From dreamtime to machine time,’ Imprint 21(3-4),
7. (C)
Caruana, W., 1987, Australian Aboriginal Art, a Souvenir Book of
Aboriginal Art in the Australian National Gallery, Australian National
Gallery, Parkes, Australian Capital Territory. (C)
Caruana, W., 1993, Aboriginal Art, Thames and Hudson, London. (C)
Cochrane, G., 1992, The Crafts Movement in Australia: a History,
New South Wales University Press, Kensington, New South Wales. (C)
O’Ferrall, M., 1989, On the Edge - Five Contemporary Aboriginal
Artists, exhib. cat., Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
Perkins H. ‘Beyond the Year of Indigenous Peoples’ in Art and Australia
1993 Vol 31 No 1 p 98-101.
Samuels, J and C. Watson, 1987, Australian Aboriginal views in print
and poster, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne.
Smith, H., 1990, Tiwi, the life and art of Australia’s Tiwi people,
Angus & Robertson, Australia.
Watson, C., 1990, ‘The Bicentenary and beyond: recent developments
in Aboriginal printmaking,’ Special Double Issue Artlink 10(1&2),
70-73. (C)
West, M.K.C., (ed.), 1988, The Inspired Dream, Life as art in Aboriginal
Australia, exhib. cat., Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Department of the Chief Minister, Northern Territory of Australia,
1983, ‘Tiwi Design in Export Drive,’ Digest of Australia’s Northern
Territory, Special Self Government Issue, 1 July, 22-25. (C)
1990, Munupi Dreaming, exhib. cat., Shades of Ochre Gallery, Darwin.
(C)
Aboriginal Art Prints Home
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region
Bathurst and Melville Islands
state
NT
community
Bathurst Island - Nguiu
born
1952
language
Tiwi
outstation
Murnupi
art centre
Tiwi Design
medium
Carved and painted wooden sculpture, linocut textile prints, etchings, carving, limited edition prints
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