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swapped pic of regis regis, captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions regis pangiraminni (b 1962) country: ranku malau, bathurst island (f), milikapiti, melville island (m) skin group: wulijula/tumpurama/ kartukuni dances: tayamini (dingo), kapala (boat) Regis Pangiraminni met Eddie Puruntatameri and John Bosco Tipiloura when he was working as an apprentice under Steve Anderson at Tiwi Design. He went on to become an apprentice to Eddie Puruntatameri in the Pirlangimpi Pottery studio in the early 1980s and is a key figure in the history of Pirlangimpi Pottery. Regis has been an active cultural leader, teaching children through the Pirlangimpi School art project and sitting as Chairman of Munupi Arts and Crafts and as an Executive Committee Member of ANKAAA and Tiwi Art Network. He has worked in many roles in the community, including as a police liaison officer. i got all the good knowledge from the elders, especially my father’s brother, george norm Pangiraminni, when he was carving poles. He also carved birds and made spears. He was an elder in Kulama ceremony, for everything in our cultural way. He was a cultural man. Kulama was a very important time for us— that’s when i used to go every day because older people are more better. at every ceremony i watch and learn—but—i didn’t go inside the circle. i remember foxy tipimwuti—he used to call out for pig dance, buffalo dance— ‘all you buffalo people, get up!’ to me it’s really important for our kids to know and learn—We are losing a bit of the cultural. my tribal land is ranku, that’s my country, on the other side of Bathurst island. rEgis Pangiraminni samson poantimului (b 1972) country: warankuru (ranku), bathurst island skin group: takaringa (mullet) dance: yirrikipayi (crocodile) Sampson is the son of Samuel ‘Marbuk’ Poantimului. He worked as an artist at the Ngaruwanajirri Art Centre at Nguiu on Bathurst Island for several years where, as well as meticulously painting on paper, he designed and cut lino stencils for prints on paper and fabric. His design flair was recognised in 1995 when he jointly won the competition to design the current official Tiwi Islands flag. His prints were exhibited at the Drill Hall Gallery Canberra in 2008. Since moving to Melville Island and joining Munupi Arts and Crafts in 2010, his well-designed paintings have featured in several group shows in Darwin, Tasmania, Sydney, and Victoria. Sampson Poantimului’s work is featured in the Parliament House collection, Canberra. samuel poantimului (b 1939) other names: marbuk country: ranku, bathurst island skin group: japijapina (march fly) dance: yirrikipayi (crocodile) Samuel Poantimului grew up in the small community of Ranku on Bathurst Island where he watched his father carving tutini, collecting and grinding ochre and painting the surfaces. Samuel moved to Melville Island in 2000 where he began to carve for Munupi Arts and Crafts Association, sometimes assisted by his partner Josette Papajua or their daughter Alana. A skilled carver, his large figures occasionally feature footballers for the AFL with ball held aloft in what has become a new tradition of immortalising a great mark taken by a player in the artist’s team. samson captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions samson captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions natalie puantulura (b 1975) country: n/p [[info tobe added]] skin group: japijapina (march fly) dance: yirrikipayi (crocodile) Natalie Puantulura’s father, Janarius Puantulura, was a mechanic and her mother Carmelina Puantulura, the eldest daughter of Declan Apuatimi and Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, was a school teacher at Wurrumiyanga, Bathurst Island. As a child Natalie watched her grandfather Declan Apuatimi (1930–85) carving and painting each day. As the grandaughter of two great Tiwi artists and culture keepers she also learnt Tiwi culture. She was particularly influenced artistically by her grandmother Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, who taught her and explained the cultural importance of the designs inher own paintings. In 2004 Natalie and her partner, Edward Malati Yunupingu, moved from Bathurst Island to Pirlangimpi and began working with Munupi Arts and Crafts. Natalie has been exhibiting since 2002, and in 2003 and 2006 was a finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. Her large black and white geometric canvases exploring detailed composite patterns are being sought by many admiring collectors. fiona puruntatameri (b 1973) country: warriyuwu, bathurst island (f), pupatuwu, bathurst island (m) skin group: takaringa (scaly mullet) dance: kirrilima (jungle fowl) Fiona Puruntatameri joined Munupi Arts & Crafts in 1990, where she works mainly as a painter and printmaker. She has participated in printmaking workshops held at Studio One Print Workshop, Canberra, and in numerous national and international exhibitions since the first Munupi Arts and Crafts exhibition, Munupi Dreaming: Shades of Ochre, Darwin, in 1990. In 1996 Fiona won the Art of Place youth award at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards of the Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra. Fiona was one of six Tiwi artists commissioned to paint a mural on the outside walls of the Lighthouse building for the 2010 Darwin Festival. above left: natalie captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions above right: fiona captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions right fiona: captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions swapped pic of fiona Fiona Puruntatameri’s work is held in national and international collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, News Limited, Flinders University, Artbank and the Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica. 270 PirlangimPi: munuPi arts and Crafts changed this to a horizontal PirlangimPi: munuPi arts and Crafts 271
francesca puruntatameri (b 1965) country: goose creek, melville island (f), warriyuwu, bathurst island (m) skin group: wantaringuwi (sun/fire) dance: nyarringari/wurrikiliki (magpie goose) Francesca Puruntatameri returned to Pirlangimpi in 1993 to work in the bank and library after attending secondary school to Year 11 at St John’s College, Darwin. She worked for a short time at Munupi Arts & Crafts but left to work at the bakery for six months. Following her return to art practice at Munupi she developed her skills at printing and fabric design. She also undertook further courses and printmaking workshops, completing a Certificate in Arts and Crafts at Batchelor College. Francesca has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1994 and in 2001 had work included in the exhibition Islands in the Sun, Prints by Indigenous Artists of Australia and the Australasian Region, National Gallery of Australia. Since 2001, Francesca has taught Tiwi language as well as arts and craft at Pirlangimpi Primary School. In 2010 she travelled to the National Art School, Sydney, for the exhibition Arampini: Artists from the Tiwi Islands, and assisted Maree Puruntatameri in the design and execution of a wall mural in the exhibition. Francesca Puruntatameri’s work is held in the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo collection. above francesca: captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions right: justin: captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions left: justin: captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions far left: francesca captions to go here captions to go here captions t far right: karen caption to go here captions to go here justin puruntatameri (b c 1928) country: munupi point (m), yapilika (maxwell creek), melville island (f) [father first?] skin group: warnarringa (sun) dance: kirrilima (jungle fowl) Justin was born before permanent European settlement at a place called Kadipuwu, adjacent to the remains of Fort Dundas on Melville Island. When the mission was established at Garden Point (present-day Pirlangimpi) his family stayed nearby in a bark house. As a child he paddled a canoe with his brothers and speared turtles, fish and stingrays, or hunted in the mangroves for crabs and mangrove worm, or in the forests for sugarbag honey, carpet snakes, bandicoots, wallabies and goannas. Attending the ceremonies Justin learnt all the old Tiwi songs sung by his father Noel Maralampuwi. His mother Grace Apuatimi also passed on to him all she knew of Tiwi culture. One of nine siblings, who included the renowned carver Paddy Freddy Puruntatameri, Justin is now the sole survivor and himself had nine children. He tells of seeing numerous Japanese planes overhead during World War II, and how Tiwi ran and hid in the bush, some in trenches at Punata. As a young man Justin went pearling with the Japanese camped near Garden Point, paid, he says, in sugar and flour. A Japanese man named Yasou slept with Tiwi women, and knew that one of the women had given birth to his daughter. Justin remained confident that due to his kinship with Tiwi, Yasou would tell the Japanese military not to attack Pirlangimipi as his daughter lived there. In later years Justin worked on the mission lugger St Francis, and also travelled to Wadeye (Port Keats). Justin is the most respected ‘culture man’ on both of the Tiwi Islands, and is one of the few who can still speak the very old Tiwi dialect; he has also retained limited knowledge of ‘Macassan’, due to his contact with them when he was a child. Even in his eighties he teaches school children at Pirlangimpi, reminding them of correct Tiwi words and phrases. Justin Puruntatameri began painting at Munupi Arts and Crafts in May 2010. Previously, his experience in mark-making and design was through body painting (jilamara) on ceremonial participants for Tiwi ceremony. With only a few exhibitions held in 2011, incuding Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, and a documentary film on his life and art planned, Justin Puruntatameri has become the ‘most collectable’ contemporary artist currently working at Munupi, a testament to his honest expression of his life as a traditional Tiwi mark-maker. karen puruntatameri (b 1973) country: rangini, melville island (f), yamba (m) skin group: japijapini (march fly) dance: kirrilima (jungle fowl) Karen Puruntatameri is the daughter of renowned Tiwi potter Eddie Puruntatameri and painter Maree Puruntatameri. Karen began work at Munupi Arts and Crafts in 1994, continuing a strong family tradition in decorative pottery, painting and printing. Her work reveals influences from both of her parents artistic and cultural heritage—her Tiwi father’s pottery techniques, style and decoration and her Arrente (Central Australian) mother’s designs. Karen has studied a Certificate II Arts and Crafts at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, and has been extensively exhibited in Tiwi group shows nationally and internationally. In swapped pics - new eve pic in karen, captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions to go here captions go here captions to go here captions 272 PirlangimPi: munuPi arts and Crafts PirlangimPi: munuPi arts and Crafts 273 swapped this for the red painting
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