Minga (Body design), 2024

$320.00

  • 37cm x 28cm
  • 2024
  • Natural Ochres on Saunders Waterford paper
  • Catalog No: 3778147-629-24

 

Graham Tipungwuti

Born: 1962
Language: Tiwi
Skin Group: Waringa (Stone)
Dance: Jarraringi (Buffalo)

Graham Tipungwuti creates ironwood carvings of birds, heads and faces, with the occasional ancestral figure. His sculptures and other art works have been shown at several pivotal Ngaruwanajirri shows since he joined.

In 2024 Graham has been creating Tiwi-style still life paintings of familiar items found in the community – drink cans, soft drink, powdered milk and biscuits.

Significant exhibitions where his work appeared include ‘Works on Paper’ touring exhibition with Art Back Nets 1996-2000; “Tayikuwapi” Ngaruwanajirri Group Exhibition in Batchelor NT, 2002; Supreme Court Darwin. N.T., Ngaruwanajirri Group Exhibition , Darwin Festival, 2006 and Ngaruwanajirri: helping one another` CDU art gallery 2011. This latter show was a historic retrospective exhibition of works by all of the Ngaruwanajirri artists.

In 2022 Graham (as part of a collaborative group of carvings) with Gordon Pupangamirri, Barry Kantilla, and David Tipuamantumirri, “First Death on the Tiwi Islands”, was selected for the Wynne Prize in 2022.

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