Delilah Freddy Puruntatameri
Delilah is the daughter of the late renowned artist Paddy Freddy Puruntatameri, and sister to leading Tiwi carvers Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri and Matthew Freddy Puruntatameri.
Dymphna Kerinauia
Dymphna Kerinauia is a strong cultural woman from Tamulampi region of Melville Island that is part of the Tiwi Islands, on the northern tip of Australia. Her Skin group is Anjiluwi (Rain) and her Dance is Tartuwali (Shark).
Freda Warlapinni
Born in the bush on her own country Mirrikawuyanga on Melville Island, Freda is a woman of seeming contradiction, forceful and frail, her strength of spirit belied her petite physical appearance and age. Freda’s paintings too are something more than they appear to be, evolving over time into a…
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi
Jean Baptiste immersed herself in making art and gradually forged a radical individual style… “recognisable for its gestural verve, audacious jilamara and oscillation between figuration and conceptual abstraction. The potency of her innovative aesthetic derives from both its compositional…
Matthew Freddy Puruntatameri
With an outstanding reputation as a leading Tiwi artists, Matthew has worked with ochres on paper, linen, bark and iron wood carvings.
Timothy Cook
Timothy paints exclusively with natural ochre and his artworks are highly sort after by major collections both nationally and internationally. Timothy won the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art Award in 2012 and has been shortlisted for many others including the Hadley Art Award in…