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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: Loretta George
Language: Rittharrngu
Biography:
Loretta was born and raised at Ngukurr, Roper River, before moving to Beswick as a young woman. Loretta follows the painting style of her mother, the late artist Angelina George, favouring bush flowers and landscapes as her subject matter. Loretta has produced designs for gold and silver jewellery, textiles and prints and was elected Chair of Djilpin Arts in 2019.
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…