Authentic Aboriginal Art Under $300 – Original Paintings & Small Works

• Artist: Jacinta Numina
• Title: Women Collecting Honey Ants
• Region: Utopia, NT
• Size: 44x34cm
• Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

• Artist: Jacinta Numina
• Title: Women Collecting Bush Tucker and Medicine Leaves
• Region: Utopia, NT
• Size: 44x34cm
• Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

• Artist:  Ken Wayne Kantilla
• Title: Juamutakari Jilamara (Wet Season Design)
• Art Centre: Ngaruwanajirri, Tiwi Islands
• Size: 17.5 x 19cm
• Medium: Stringbark with Ochre Pigments
• Year born: 1967
• Skin Group: Sun
  
• Dance: Pig

Ngaruwanajirri means “Helping one another”

This Centre began in 1994 with funding for the support of Tiwi with a disability and the core attendants today are disability artists. They have each developed exceptional creative skill. Sometimes referred to as free, loose, naive, or Outsider art, the work of Ngaruwanajirri artists is unique. A separate group of able-bodied Tiwi carvers work alongside this core group in a purpose-built space adjacent to the Keeping Place creating both large and small carvings.

Ken Wayne Kantilla works at Ngaruwanajirri Art Centre and is the current Chairman. He produces delicately executed works on paper with painstaking skill as well as paintings on canvas, ironwood carvings, and natural ochres on shells. In the 1980s Ken Wayne lived for two years in Victoria, attending St Bede`s College, Mentone. Ken has been included in major Ngaruwanajirri exhibitions since 1996, including Pupini Yinkiti Arimuwu Kapi Winga, Good Food, Sea Food, an ArtBack Nets Travelling Exhibition, 2000 - 2004.

Ken Wayne has a keen interest in Australian rules football, due to the success of his father David Kantilla, a South Australian player in the 1960s. His extreme patience is reflected in the painstakingly careful geometry of his paintings. He is regularly shown in the annual Darwin Ngaruwanajirri Exhibition at the time of the Darwin Festival and in Tarnathi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Art Gallery of South Australia.

Ken Wayne's artwork is characterized by his exceptional skill of painting straight lines by hand. These lines create a rippled rhythm within his paintings often accentuated by depictions of daily Tiwi life including animals and cultural objects. Although his lines are robotically precise, the slight irregularity in his initial drawing reveals the unaided touch of his work.

Ken's unique style is enhanced by his exclusive use of natural Tiwi ochres. His meticulous attention to detail and unwavering dedication to his craft has earned him a well-deserved reputation as a skilled and respected artist in the community. Ken's artwork has been showcased in galleries and exhibitions across Australia

• Artist:  Alexandrina Kantilla
• Title: Minga
• Art Centre: Ngaruwanajirri, Tiwi Islands
• Size: 23.5 x 4.5cm
• Medium: Stringbark with Ochre Pigments with PVA fixative
• Year born: 1974
• Skin Group: Pig
  
• Dance: March Fly

Ngaruwanajirri means “Helping one another”

This Centre began in 1994 with funding for the support of Tiwi with a disability and the core attendants today are disability artists. They have each developed exceptional creative skill. Sometimes referred to as free, loose, naive, or Outsider art, the work of Ngaruwanajirri artists is unique. A separate group of able-bodied Tiwi carvers work alongside this core group in a purpose-built space adjacent to the Keeping Place creating both large and small carvings.

• Artist: Jane Margaret Tipuamantumirri
• Title: Jikipayinga Pitipita Jilamara (Crocodile Belly Design)
• Art Centre: Ngaruwanajirri, Tiwi Islands
• Size: 12.5 x 35.5cm
• Medium: Stringbark with Ochre Pigments with PVA fixative
• Year born: 1968
• Skin Group: Mullet
  
• Dance: Shark 

Ngaruwanajirri means “Helping one another”

This Centre began in 1994 with funding for the support of Tiwi with a disability and the core attendants today are disability artists. They have each developed exceptional creative skill. Sometimes referred to as free, loose, naive, or Outsider art, the work of Ngaruwanajirri artists is unique. A separate group of able-bodied Tiwi carvers work alongside this core group in a purpose-built space adjacent to the Keeping Place creating both large and small carvings.

• Artist: Jacinta Numina
• Title: Bush Medicine Leaves
• Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
• Size: 38 x 53cm
• Region: Utopia, NT
• Outstation: Atnangkere
• Language Block: Arandic
• Language: Anmatyerre, Kayte, Alyawarra, English

Jacinta Numina was born at Sterling Station, Central Australia, in 1965 and is niece to the world acclaimed Petyarre sisters from Utopia. In the early eighties she started painting with a group of lady elders from the Utopia region. The central theme of her artwork relates to her knowledge of the Anmatyerre (women’s) Law and her country.

In 1996, Jacinta moved to Darwin to formally study at Charles Darwin University and completed her Associate Degree in Art and Design in 2003. The next year saw Jacinta complete her traineeships in printmaking and was then appointed as a fulltime printmaker at Northern Editions, she completed works with the NT Government. 

Recently Aboriginal Bush Traders, hosted Jacinta's sold out solo exhibition Atnangkerre; Ankerre, Arnkerrthe (My Country; Emu and Thorny Devil Lizard Dreaming). "Totems such as the Thorny Devil Lizard and Emu can be passed down through Cultural Ceremonies. This ensures that the stories and traditions are kept alive."

• Artist: Jacinta Numina
• Title: Bush Medicine Leaves
• Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
• Size: 38 x 53cm
• Region: Utopia, NT
• Outstation: Atnangkere
• Language Block: Arandic
• Language: Anmatyerre, Kayte, Alyawarra, English

Jacinta Numina was born at Sterling Station, Central Australia, in 1965 and is niece to the world acclaimed Petyarre sisters from Utopia. In the early eighties she started painting with a group of lady elders from the Utopia region. The central theme of her artwork relates to her knowledge of the Anmatyerre (women’s) Law and her country.

In 1996, Jacinta moved to Darwin to formally study at Charles Darwin University and completed her Associate Degree in Art and Design in 2003. The next year saw Jacinta complete her traineeships in printmaking and was then appointed as a fulltime printmaker at Northern Editions, she completed works with the NT Government. 

Recently Aboriginal Bush Traders, hosted Jacinta's sold out solo exhibition Atnangkerre; Ankerre, Arnkerrthe (My Country; Emu and Thorny Devil Lizard Dreaming). "Totems such as the Thorny Devil Lizard and Emu can be passed down through Cultural Ceremonies. This ensures that the stories and traditions are kept alive."

• Artist: Jacinta Numina
• Title: Bush Medicine Leaves
• Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
• Size: 38 x 53cm
• Region: Utopia, NT
• Outstation: Atnangkere
• Language Block: Arandic
• Language: Anmatyerre, Kayte, Alyawarra, English

Jacinta Numina was born at Sterling Station, Central Australia, in 1965 and is niece to the world acclaimed Petyarre sisters from Utopia. In the early eighties she started painting with a group of lady elders from the Utopia region. The central theme of her artwork relates to her knowledge of the Anmatyerre (women’s) Law and her country.

In 1996, Jacinta moved to Darwin to formally study at Charles Darwin University and completed her Associate Degree in Art and Design in 2003. The next year saw Jacinta complete her traineeships in printmaking and was then appointed as a fulltime printmaker at Northern Editions, she completed works with the NT Government. 

Recently Aboriginal Bush Traders, hosted Jacinta's sold out solo exhibition Atnangkerre; Ankerre, Arnkerrthe (My Country; Emu and Thorny Devil Lizard Dreaming). "Totems such as the Thorny Devil Lizard and Emu can be passed down through Cultural Ceremonies. This ensures that the stories and traditions are kept alive."

• Artist: Jacinta Numina
• Title: Bush Medicine Leaves
• Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
• Size: 38 x 53cm
• Region: Utopia, NT
• Outstation: Atnangkere
• Language Block: Arandic
• Language: Anmatyerre, Kayte, Alyawarra, English

Jacinta Numina was born at Sterling Station, Central Australia, in 1965 and is niece to the world acclaimed Petyarre sisters from Utopia. In the early eighties she started painting with a group of lady elders from the Utopia region. The central theme of her artwork relates to her knowledge of the Anmatyerre (women’s) Law and her country.

In 1996, Jacinta moved to Darwin to formally study at Charles Darwin University and completed her Associate Degree in Art and Design in 2003. The next year saw Jacinta complete her traineeships in printmaking and was then appointed as a fulltime printmaker at Northern Editions, she completed works with the NT Government. 

Recently Aboriginal Bush Traders, hosted Jacinta's sold out solo exhibition Atnangkerre; Ankerre, Arnkerrthe (My Country; Emu and Thorny Devil Lizard Dreaming). "Totems such as the Thorny Devil Lizard and Emu can be passed down through Cultural Ceremonies. This ensures that the stories and traditions are kept alive."

• Artist: Jonathon Price
• Title: Old Man in the Nighht Sky
• Language Group: Kaytetye
• Region: Barrow Creek, NT
• Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
• Size: 46 x 23cm

Biography

• Artist: Jonathon Price
• Title: Young Girl with Face Paint Design
• Language Group: Kaytetye
• Region: Barrow Creek, NT
• Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
• Size: 46 x 23cm

Biography

• Artist: Jonathon Price
• Title: Lady with Body/Face Paint Design
• Language Group: Kaytetye
• Region: Barrow Creek, NT
• Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
• Size: 48 x 33cm

Biography

• Artist: Jonathon Price
• Title: Lady with Face Paint Design
• Language Group: Kaytetye
• Region: Barrow Creek, NT
• Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
• Size: 48 x 33cm

Biography

• Artist: Christine Burarrwanga
• Title: Sea Turtles
• Region: Yirrikala
• Size: 35cm x 25cm
• Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Christine Burarrwanga – Artist from Yirrkala, N.E Arnhem Land

Christine is a Yolngu woman deeply connected to her culture. Christine has inherited her artistic style from her mother, which comes from her ancestors’ knowledge, lore and stories.

Christine has also released a book with Lucy Van Sambeek called “The Life of Tree.” This children’s therapeutic picture book creates a culturally safe space for Aboriginal children to express difficult emotions around their experiences with family violence. Through their organisation ‘metaphorically Speaking’, Christine offers culturally safe counselling and therapeutic services to Aboriginal women, children and families using both Western counselling methodologies and traditional Aboriginal healing methods.

'Baru' is recognised by Yolngu as being part of the Yirritja moiety. For artists of the Madarrpa and Gumatj clans. The figurative representation in artworks is frequently accompanied by elongated diamond-patterned designs which are representative of the serrated bumps along a crocodile's back. For Yolngu 'Baru' is an animal to be treated with great respect.