Title
Syaw (Fish net)
2004
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Peppimenarti
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Central Arnhem Land
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Cultural origin
- Ngangikurrunggurr, Peppimenarti, Fitzmaurice region
- Date
- 2004
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 200.0 x 229.5 cm stretcher
- Credit
- Purchased 2004
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 255.2004
- Copyright
- © Regina Pilawuk Wilson, Durrmu Arts, Peppimenarti
- Artist information
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Regina Pilawuk Wilson
Works in the collection
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About
'Syaw (Fish net)' 2004 is an innovative painting replicating the elaborate and delicate patterning of woven objects such as mats, fish traps and baskets. The subtly shifting colours and the repeated pattern evokes the repetitive action of the weaver's hands give this painting a contemplative quality.
Documentation accompanying the painting states:
"Regina Wilson is a master weaver and colourist, who transforms her indepth knowledge of colour, design and layering to set out the dimensions of a painting. From the tradition of her mother's mother's work, Wilson paints an extensive variety of stitching and weaving designs. Wilson's work is highly sophisticated, displaying the ability of a mature artist even though the medium is new.
This painting represents the stitch and weave of the Syaw or fish net. The weaving method is the same as the stitch used in weaving the warrgarri (dilly bag), except bigger.
The pinbin vine (bush vine) grows near the river and is stripped into fibres which are then woven into the net. The Syaw is used to catch fish, prawns and other edible creatures in the creeks and rivers."Regina Wilson won the painting prize at the 2003 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award with her painting of the same subject.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2004
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Peppimenarti Community Artists, Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin, Aug 2004 -
One sun, one moon, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Jul 2007–02 Dec 2007
Country Culture Community (2008-09), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Nov 2008–19 Apr 2009
Our spirits lie in the water, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 2014–01 Nov 2015
Exploded Textiles, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth, 28 Sep 2019–01 Dec 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Margie West and Kim Barber, One sun one moon: Aboriginal art in Australia, ‘Dadirri: The art of the Wadeye-Eye region’, pg. 117-112, Sydney, 2007, 123 (colour illus.).
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