Status: Stock
The Djilpin Arts Picnic Rug range is a celebration of life on country around the waterways of Wugularr community and surrounds. Inspired by the artists’ love of heading out bush and throwing down a calico to fish, swim and relax on their traditional lands, these designs feature fish, bush fruits, billabong flowers and medicinal plants.
Name: Angelina George
Language: Marra
Community: Wugularr (Beswick)
Biography:
The late Angelina was an award winning contemporary Indigenous artist whose paintings are explorations of landscape, reflecting space and structure of her country. Angelina grew up in Roper River country, attending the mission school, where she first began to draw in coloured chalks on slate. Angelina’s final works are represented in Djilpin’s permanent collections and in textiles. She won the 2007 NATSIAAA art award in the open painting category and her work was highly commended in the 2008 Awards. Angelina also features in the award winning documentary Yellow Fella by Ivan Sen (SBSTV, Cannes Film Festival 2005).
Lorrkon Wood carving has always been part of Aboriginal culture and Djilpin artists continue this tradition. Men carved wood for many purposes – tools for hunting or gathering food, axes and knives for building shelters, Read more…
Bird Wood carving has always been part of Aboriginal culture and Djilpin artists continue this tradition. Men carved wood for many purposes – tools for hunting or gathering food, axes and knives for building shelters, Read more…
Long Neck Turtle – Nyangura Nyangura the Long-Neck Tortoise is Yirritja. The two sacred ancestral Nyangura are found at a place called Djirringi in north-central Arnhem Lane on Ganalbingu land. The tracks left by the Read more…