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Tiwi Island Artists - Pedro Wonaeamirri see the Artists prints Browse Tiwi Islands Prints
Born in 1974, aboriginal artist, Pedro Wonamerri is one of the younger, practising Tiwi artists. He paints on paper and canvas and makes Pukumani carvings and figures. The Pukamani ceremony is the traditional Tiwi burial ceremony, one of the cornerstones of the Tiwi’s traditional belief. Also a traditional dancer he first performed a Tiwi ceremonial dance in public in 1981 when he was only five years old, for the opening of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin. During his secondary education his favourite subject was traditional dance. His country is Goose Creek, where he hunts magpie geese; and his skin or kinship group is pandanus. He is owner of the magpie goose dance. “Art work is very important for me. I use traditional ochres on canvas, paper, barks, tunga bags and ironwood sculptures. The tools I use for painting are traditional wooden combs made from bloodwood or ironwood timber - sometimes I use a brush. The images I paint are from Pukamani body designs used in ceremonies”. He has exhibited in many group shows since 1992 and his work is included in installations at the Museum of Victoria, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the National Maritime Museum, Sydney. In 1996 he was awarded an Australia Council Fellowship. subjects and themes Miyartini (pandanus), Magpie Goose collections Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney > Museum of Victoria, Melbourne. Myer Gatner Collection, USA. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney. exhibitions Group exhibitions 1992 NgingingawulaJilamara Kapi Yurruka Manimpurrua(Designs on Long Canvas and Pukamani Poles) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. 1993 The Body Tiwi Aboriginal Art from Melville and Bathurst Islands, The University Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston. 1993 Time and Tide, Adelaide Festival Centre Foyer, Adelaide & Touring 1994 11th NATSI, Museum & Art Gallery of NT, Darwin. 1995 Jilamara Kapi Yurruka Manimpurrua(Designs on Long Canvas and Pukamani Poles) Alcaston House, Melbourne. 1995 12th National Aboriginal Art Award NTMG Darwin. 1996 Tiwi People from Melville Island,Anima Gallery Adelaide. 1996 Masterpieces from Milikapiti, Savode Gallery Brisbane. 1997 Old Patterns Framed Gallery Darwin NT. 1997 ‘ First Persons Plural’ Betty Ryner Gallery Chicago USA. 1997 Old Tiwi Alcaston House, Melbourne. 1997 Small Designs -Jewellery and Paintings, Savode Gallery Brisbane. 1997 Keeper of the Mimi Spirit, The October Gallery, London. 1998 Gli Aborigeni Australiani Una Storia Forty Thousand Ani. Castello Sforenco, Milandeao Sale Viscontee, Italy. 1998 The Old and the New, Gallery Gondawana Alice Springs. 1998 ‘Parlini Jilamara Kapi Urruka Tarpurrlini Amintiya’ (Old Designs on Long Canvas and Paper) Mossenson Gallery Subiaco . 1998 Gatner- Myer Collection, California Palace of the Legion of Honour San Francisco USA. 1999 The Work of the Tiwi, Framed Gallery Darwin. 1999 Living here and Now: Art & Politics The Perspecta, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. 2000 Beyond the Pale Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide. bibliography Bennett, J., 1992, ‘Ngingingawala Jilamara kapi purunguparri (Our Bark Paintings),’ Gallery Monthly Magazine of the National Gallery Society of Victoria, September. 1993, The Body Tiwi Aboriginal Art from Melville and Bathurst Islands, exhib. cat., The University Gallery, University of Tasmania at Launceston. (C) 1994, Art of the Tiwi from the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, exhib. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. (C) Isaacs J. 1999 Spirit Country Hardie Grant Books, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. McCulloch S, Contemporary Aboriginal Art: a guide to the rebirth of an ancient culture. Allen & Unwin 1999. Aboriginal Art Prints Home	region Melville Island state NT community Milikapiti born 1973 language Tiwi outstation Goose Creek, Melville Island art centre Jilamara Arts & Crafts medium Ochres on paper, ochres on canvas, ochres on bark, limited edition prints

DENNIS NONA CURRENT SOLO EXHIBITION

Sesserae: New Works by Dennis Nona

Paris, London, Sydney, Brisbane

Dennis Nona is widely acknowledged as one of, if not the most, important living Torres Strait Islander artist.

This exhibition of installations, limited edition linocuts, etchings and cast bronze sculptures showcases the artist's most recent work.

PARIS
The Australian Embassy
6 April - 8 June, 2006

LONDON
Rebecca Hossack Gallery
35 Windmill Street,
LONDON (Dates TBA)

SYDNEY
31 Lamrock Avenue
BONDI BEACH, NSW
30 March - 16 April, 2006

BRISBANE
Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art
BRISBANE, QLD
3 June - 10 July 2005

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