Title
Winga (Tidal movement, waves)
2012
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Melville Island
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Australia
- Cultural origin
- Tiwi
- Date
- 2012
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- natural pigments on canvas
- Dimensions
- 100.0 x 100.0 cm stretcher
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Aboriginal Art Collection Benefactors 2010
- Location
- Naala Badu, ground level, Yiribana Gallery
- Accession number
- 375.2012
- Copyright
- © Cornelia Tipuamantumirri, courtesy Munupi Arts and Crafts/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Cornelia Tipuamantumirri
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About
Born c1930, Tiwi, Pularumpi, Melville Island, North region
Cornelia Tipuamantumirri is a Tiwi artist who works through the Munupi Art Centre at Pularumpi on Melville Island. The Tiwi people of Bathurst and Melville Island, have a distinct culture and they share a visual language known as jilamara (design) based on the innumerable configurations of mulypinyini pwanga (lines and dots). These designs are individually conceived and may be used in ceremony, body painting and artworks.
Tipuamantumirri began painting in 2010 and her works offer an impressionistic view of country. 'Winga (Tidal movement, waves)' 2012, focuses on the movement of water and the changes this brings, both in terms of the silt that is moved by waves altering the coastline and the varying sea life that accompany the incoming and outgoing tides.
In the Tiwi tradition Tipuamantumirri’s works are painted with a wooden kayimwagamiki (comb), to create lines of ochre dots, in subtle variations of colour and intensity. On the deep black background these undulating lines create areas of shifting light and movement, reminiscent of the play of sunlight on the sea and the tidal movements of water itself, which Tipuamantumirri is referencing in this work.
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Places
Where the work was made
Melville Island
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Womikinimirri Puruntatameri & Cornelia Tipuamantumirri, Kirilima + Jarrikalani - Jungle Fowl + Loggerhead Turtle, Alcaston Gallery, Fitzroy, 05 Sep 2012–28 Sep 2012
Our spirits lie in the water, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 2014–01 Nov 2015
Yiribana Gallery: opening collection display, Art Gallery of New South Wales, North Building, Sydney, 03 Dec 2022–29 May 2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Sarah Couper, Look, 'Our spirits lie in the water', pg. 42, Sydney, Feb 2015, 42 (colour illus.).
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