Aboriginal Painting by Cornelia Tipuamanturriri, Tiwi Island

This painting comes from the Jilamara Design art center and dates back to 2013. It is made with earth ochres bound with acrylic pigment. Cornelia is considered a great artist of the first generation from this region. A certificate of authenticity is included.Cornelia Tipuamantumirri was born in Pirlangimpi (Garden Point), Melville Island, around 1930. Her fathers ancestral land is Imalu Point, Melville Island, and her mothers ancestral land is Munupi, Melville Island. Her skin group is Warntarringa (Sun) and her dream is Jarrikalani (Turtle). Tipuamantumirri lives and works in Pirlangimpi, where she is an initiated and respected Tiwi elder.Tipuamantumirri uses the kayimwagakimi, a traditional carved wooden painting comb with a single row of teeth. Using a palette of ochres in pinks, yellows, blacks, and browns, her work depicts significant aspects of Tiwi life and culture with repeated dotted lines referencing yirrinkiripwoja (body painting) and the tidal movements of the surrounding seas.Tipuamantumirri, who began painting in 2010, is also an experienced weaver.Key recent solo and group exhibitions:- Warnarringa - Jarrikalani: Sun - Turtle, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne (2014)- Cornelia Tipuamantumirri - New Paintings, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne (2013)- Purunguparri (Stringy Bark Hut), Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne (2011)- Ngawa Munupula/Ngawa Kiripapiranjuwi: New Paintings from Munupi Art on the Tiwi Islands, Outstation Gallery, Darwin (2015)- Cornelia Tipuamantumirri and Delores Tipuamantumirri: New Paintings, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney (2015)- We are Tiwi: Munupi Arts from Melville Island, Artitja Fine Art, Fremantle, WA (2014)- The Tiwi: Art from Jilamara & Munupi Art Centres, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, Virginia, USA (2014)- Nginingawila Munupi Jilamara: Our Paintings from Munupi, Marshall Arts, Adelaide (2013)- Kirilima + Jarrikalani - Jungle Fowl + Loggerhead Turtle, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne (2012)- Masterstroke, Harvison Gallery, Perth (2012)- Tiwi Tradition - Munupi Artists of Melville Island, Artitja Fine Art, Fremantle, WA (2012)- Nginingawila Kurrujipini (Our Colour), Tiwi Art Network, Darwin (2011).Key Australian collections:- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide- Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra- Private collections.