Works from Ngaruwanajirri Past and Present
Alfonso Puautjimi
Landscape with Grey Plane
Natural Ochre on Saunders Paper, 57.5 x 38 cm
#APU1267-21
Present:
New work from artists at Ngaruwanajirri.
Bathurst Island and Melville Islands are known as the Tiwi Islands and are located about 60 kilometres north of Darwin. Wurrumiyanga (formerly known as Nguiu) is situated on Bathurst Island, the smaller of the two islands, and is the main township with a population of approximately 1,500 people. This makes it the largest township on Bathurst Island.
All the Indigenous artists working at Ngaruwanajirri are Tiwi and the word ‘ngaruwanajirri’ is Tiwi for ‘helping one another’.
Their work has been included in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards and features in many private and public collections, including the Batchelor Institute, Parliament House in Canberra, Artbank, Charles Darwin University Collection and the Lam Collection University of San Antonio Texas USA.
Landscape with Yellow Plane
Natural Ochre on Saunders Paper, 58 x 38 cm
#APU1271-21
Alfonso PuautjimiAlfonso Puautjimi:
Alfonso Puautjimi (1969- ) is an established artist who has worked at Ngaruwanajirri Inc. for over 20 years, having started painting with the group in 1997. He is one of the many artists there with a distinctive and individual style of expression, and whose painting has moved from strength to strength over the past decade.
The subject matter of his stylistically individual ochre paintings is drawn from his every day environment: including figures in the painting studio, houses, planes, cars and bicycles. Alfonso uses broad brush strokes, generous paint application and applies black lines over large areas of rich colour. His paintwork has a strong textural effect, making these unique works strong and dynamic.
Alfonso’s works have been exhibited and collected across Australia for over two decades.
Alfonso Puautjimi
Landscape with Red Plane
Natural Ochre on Saunders Paper, 57.5 x 38 cm
#APU1306-22
Alfonso Puautjimi
Three Bikes
Natural Ochre on Saunders Paper, 38 x 57 cm
#APU1473-23
Alfonso Puautjimi
Landscape with Yellow Bus
Natural Ochre on Saunders Paper, 58 x 38 cm
#APU1314-22
Alfonso Puautjimi
Landscape with White Plane
Natural Ochre on Saunders Paper, 57 x 38 cm
#APU1386-22
Alfonso Puautjimi
Lanscape with Green Plane
Natural Ochre on Saunders Paper, 57 x 38 cm
#APU1387-22
Alfonso Puautjimi
Nine Houses
Natural Ochre on Saunders Paper, 57 x 38 cm
#APU1391-22
Landscape with Orange Plane
Natural Ochre on Saunders Paper, 57 x 38.5 cm
#APU1454-23
Alfonso Puautjimi
Jilamara
Natural Ochre on Saunders Paper, 38 x 57.5 cm
#AWCJMTT 04-23
Jane Tipuamantumirri
Jane Margaret Tipuamantumirri:
Jane Tipuamantumirri (1968- ) is an established artist and has worked at Ngaruwanajirri Inc. for many years. She is one of the many artists there with a distinctive and individual style of expression.
The subject matter of her ochre paintings is drawn from her every day environment: including magpie goose, shark, muputi (fish), tunga (bark basket) and pamajini (arm band for ceremony).
Jane’s works have been exhibited and collected across Australia for over two decades.
Natural Ochre on Saunders Paper, 38 x 58 cm
Jane Tipuamantumirri
Jilamara
#AWCJMTT 22-22
Jane Tipuamantumirri
Jilamara
Natural Ochre on Arches paper, 57.5 x 38 cm
#AWCJMTT 22-23
Jane Tipuamantumirri
Jilamara
Natural Ochre on Arches paper, 38 x 57.5 cm
#AWCJMTT 27-22
Estelle Munkanome
Untitled
Watercolour on Arches paper, 77 x 57 cm
#AWC EM 11-11
Past:
Work from artists from Ngaruwanajirri in the Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery Collection.
These works are some of the most prized examples from many years of partnership and exhibitions between Ngaruwanajirri and Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery. This partnership has been made possible by the the important work of Joy and John Naden who have worked tirelessly to raise the profile of Ngaruwanajirri artists.
Estelle Munkanome Untitled
Ochres on Arches paper, 77 x 57 cm
#EM 229-20
Estelle Munkanome Untitled
Ochres on Arches paper, 76.5 x 58 cm #EM 562-29
Jane Tipuamantumirri
Untitled
Ochres on Arches paper, 57.5 x 39 cm
#JMT 122-20
Jane Tipuamantumirri
Untitled
Ochres on Arches paper, 77 x 57.5 cm
#JMT 123-20
Jane Tipuamantumirri
Untitled
Ochres on Arches paper, 57.5 x 38 cm
#JMT 136-21
Jane Tipuamantumirri
Untitled
Ochres on Arches paper, 77 x 57.5 cm
#JMT 143-21
Jane Tipuamantumirri
Untitled
Ochres on Arches paper, 58 x 39 cm
#JMT 144-21
Jane Tipuamantumirri
Untitled
Ochres on Arches paper, 76 x 57.5 cm
#JMT 186-28
Untitled
Ochres on Arches paper, 76 x 57 cm
#JOMT 121
John Martin Tipuamantumirri
Lillian Kerinaiua
Untitled
Ochres on Arches paper, 77 x 58 cm
#LK 170-22
Lillian Kerinaiua
Untitled
Ochres on Arches paper, 77 x 57.5 cm
#LK 175-22
Lillian Kerinaiua
Untitled
Ochres on Arches paper, 76 x 58 cm
#LK 264-29
Lorna Kantilla
Untitled
Ochres on Arches paper, 76 x 58 cm
#LOK 313-25
Alfonso Puautjimi
Joy’s Bike
Ochres on Arches paper, 76 x 56 cm
#APU 602-11
