Djilpin Arts Aboriginal Corporation

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BllaBong Feed

This painting has a mix of plants and animal species. From left is a long tom fish; these are very skinny and bony and often used as bait for larger fish species. Next is a File Snake, or quiet snake. These are found in billabongs and wet areas and are a prized feed. Next is a Lilyroot – everything on this plant is edible. Finally is a common house gecko. It is the odd one out and isn’t usually eaten!

Painting has been completed using a handmade Jarlk grass reed brush harvested from local billabongs and wet areas. Raark or fine line work is in Yirritja style and consists of three or four lines before alternating colour.

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Shark & Barra

This painting depicts multiple barramundi schooling. A shark is also visible, feeding on one unfortunate barra.

Raark or fine line work has been completed using a handmade Jarlk reed brush harvested from local billabongs and wet areas.

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Jaigung – File Snake

This painting depicts two Jaigung, or file snakes swimming in water. File snakes are a harmless water snake and good tasty tucker when roasted in coals.

 

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Two Fish

This painting depicts two fish commonly found in local billabongs and creeks around Beswick / Wugularr. Included is a black bream and a bogong or rainbow perch.

Visual style of this painting is very similar to Frankie Tango Lane as Travis is apprenticing under Tango’s tutelage. Tango painted the black fish shape, while Travis worked with a Jarlk brush to complete the Raark and further details.

Raark or fine line work has been completed using a handmade Jarlk reed brush harvested from local billabongs and wet areas. Raark is in Yirritja style and consists of three or four lines before alternating colour.

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Turle + Fish

Djilpin Arts is a not for profit Aboriginal Corporation that promotes the maintenance, development and transmission of traditional cultural knowledge systems. Djilpin Arts specialises in live cultural performance, digital media, and produces the popular performance event – the Walking With Spirits Festival as well as Concerts on Country. Djilpin Arts operates the Ghunmarn Culture Centre – home of the Blanasi Collection and offers fine arts & crafts for sale. Djilpin Arts operates an outlet in Katherine – Shed 5, where all works are sourced from the Ghunmarn Culture Centre. The Ghunmarn Culture Centre is in the Wugularr (Beswick) community of South East Arnhem Land. All artworks are made by local artists living in the community. Artwork reflects the traditional songs and stories that have been passed down through the generations with a contemporary edge.  Fibre art is a special feature of Djilpin Arts as is its Gapu Series of fine art prints.

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Jaigung & Barra

This painting depicts a Jaigung or file snake along with a barramundi swimming around a billabong.

Painting has been completed using modern acrylic paint and paintbrushes.

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Long Neck Turtle

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 two ancestral totemic Nyangura, as they crawled over the land at Djirringi, is a sacred symbol. This symbol is used as a ground design or sand sculpture during cleansing ceremonies otherwise known as Bulu-Lup or Wan’tjirr. During this ceremony, water is poured over the bodies of Yolngu relatives of the deceased as they stand within the sacred ground design representing the marks left on the ground by the two original ancestral Nyangura at Djirringi. Yolngu also dance Nyangura during bunggul ceremonies. Here they may paint the design for Nyanguru and other designs. Nyangura is also food for Yolngu. It is cooked and cut according to age old tradition. The artist has depicted four Long Neck Turtle’s in this painting.

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Catfish + Nailfish

Djilpin Arts is a not for profit Aboriginal Corporation that promotes the maintenance, development and transmission of traditional cultural knowledge systems.

Djilpin Arts specialises in art, live cultural performance, digital media, and produced the popular performance event – the Walking With Spirits Festival as well as Concerts on Country.

Djilpin Arts operates the Ghunmarn Culture Centre – home of the Blanasi Collection and offers fine arts & crafts for sale. Djilpin Arts operates an outlet in Katherine – Shed 5, where all works are sourced from Ghunmarn Culture Centre. Ghunmarn Culture Centre is in the Wugularr (Beswick) community of South East Arnhem Land.

All artworks are made by local artists living in the community. Artwork reflects the traditional songs and stories that have been passed down through the generations with a contemporary edge.  Fibre art is a special feature of Djilpin Arts as is its Gapu Series of fine art prints.

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Wind, Bats & Flowers

This painting depicts wind, bats, and flowers. Wind is shown as “v” shaped marks, while the flowers are five white dots with an inner coloured dot. Bats, a common yet noisy sight around Beswick are also visible on the flower filled panels.

Painting has been completed using a handmade Jarlk grass reed brush harvested from local billabongs and wet areas. Raark or fine line work is in Yirritja style and consists of three or four lines before alternating colours. This raark is only visible on the bats, however the Jarlk brush has been used for all fine line work.

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Saltwater Fish

This painting shows a saltwater fish story.

You can see a large stingray, along with smaller fish. Gapu or water is visible via the round dot prints.

Painting has been completed using a handmade brush harvested from Jarlk or reeds surrounding billabongs and wet areas. Work is in acrylic paint.