Artiste : Arthurina Moreen

Titre de l'œuvre : Ngiya jilamara I (body paint design)

Pigments naturels sur toile de lin Belge

Format : 60 × 60 cm

Provenance et certificat : centre d'art aborigène de Jalimara (Tiwi Island)

Référence de la peinture : 431-24

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© Photo : Aboriginal signature with the courtesy of the artist & Jilamara Art centre (Tiwi Island)

Explications pour cette œuvre :

Arthurina Moreen (2000) is a young emerging artist and artsworker/gallery assistant at Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association. She oversees operations in the art centre gallery and studios as well as participates in organisational governance as an elected Executive Committee member. Her role includes artwork cataloguing with the SAM database, studio artwork photography, post-production image editing, pricing and sales, studio supports, working with the historical collection at the art centre’s keeping place and travelling for art fairs, exhibitions and events. She joined Jilamara Arts in 2021 as a screen printer in the workshop and she has quickly established herself as a key member of the organisation’s workforce.

After returning to the Tiwi Islands, she has held a few different employment positions in Milikapiti including being a support teacher at the primary school working with children with special needs and a parttime position at the Milikapiti Sports and Social Club.

In 2022 Arthurina travelled with Jilamara to take part in the King and Wood Malleson’s Indigenous Governance Conference and in 2023 she completed the ANKA Artsworker Extension Program where she travelled to Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne visiting relevant arts institutions including National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, University of Melbourne’s Grimwade centre and the National Gallery of Victoria.

This painting deals about Ngiya Jilamara which means my design. All jilamara (design) is originally drawn from the body painting which accompanied the pukumani (funeral) and kulama (initiation/yam) ceremonies. All the artists living at Milikapi􀆟 are drawing on collective Tiwi memory, and the individual expression and aesthetic qualities of each artist's work is reflective of their personal interpretation of traditional Tiwi design or jilamara.

AWARDS AND QUALIFICATIONS :
2023 ANKA Artsworker Extension Program – VIC, NSW, ACT
Creative Regions National Summit, National Gallery of Australia
2022 Wake Up, King and Wood Malleson/Arts Law Governance Symposium, Melbourne