Artist: Freda Warlapinni | Title: Untitled | Year: 1999 | Medium: earth pigments on canvas | Dimensions: 119.5 x 84.5 cm
PROVENANCE
The Jacquie McPhee Collection
ARTIST PROFILE
COMMUNITY/REGION
Melville Island, Tiwi
LANGUAGE
Tiwi
BIOGRAPHY
Freda Warlapinni lived at Milkapiti on Melville Island and painted for Jilamara Arts Centre. Despite taking up painting as a career later in life, she was a skilled painter from decades of experience in body-painting during ceremonies. Freda transferred her traditional skills to both canvas and printmaking, particularly specialising in lithographs through her collaboration with the Australian Print Workshop in Melbourne.
Warlapinni's artwork gained recognition through numerous exhibitions. In Australia, her prints were featured in exhibitions such as 'Arukulunga Wunitaka Thelma - Cyclone Thelma' in 1999 and 'Island Images' in 2001. Internationally, her work was showcased in 'First Person Plural' at the Betty Rymer Gallery, and it was included in the Gantner-Myer Collection at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco in 1998. Her lithograph titled 'Body Painting no.1' was part of the '16th Asian International Art Exhibition' at the Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou, China, in 2001. Additionally, her prints were exhibited in the traveling show 'People in a Landscape', which toured Germany, Russia, Switzerland, and Turkey between 2002 and 2003. In 2004, her work was featured in 'Explained II: A Closer Look at Aboriginal Art' at the AAMU Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Freda Warlapinni's artworks are held in several esteemed public collections, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Internationally, her pieces are part of the collection at the AAMU Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Utrecht and the Kerry Stokes Collection in Perth.
REFERENCES
Jennifer Isaacs, 'Spirit Country: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art', San Francisco and Melbourne: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Hardie Grant Books, 1999
Judith Ryan et al, 'Art of the Tiwi from the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria', exh. cat., Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1994
PROVENANCE
The Jacquie McPhee Collection
ARTIST PROFILE
COMMUNITY/REGION
Melville Island, Tiwi
LANGUAGE
Tiwi
BIOGRAPHY
Freda Warlapinni lived at Milkapiti on Melville Island and painted for Jilamara Arts Centre. Despite taking up painting as a career later in life, she was a skilled painter from decades of experience in body-painting during ceremonies. Freda transferred her traditional skills to both canvas and printmaking, particularly specialising in lithographs through her collaboration with the Australian Print Workshop in Melbourne.
Warlapinni's artwork gained recognition through numerous exhibitions. In Australia, her prints were featured in exhibitions such as 'Arukulunga Wunitaka Thelma - Cyclone Thelma' in 1999 and 'Island Images' in 2001. Internationally, her work was showcased in 'First Person Plural' at the Betty Rymer Gallery, and it was included in the Gantner-Myer Collection at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco in 1998. Her lithograph titled 'Body Painting no.1' was part of the '16th Asian International Art Exhibition' at the Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou, China, in 2001. Additionally, her prints were exhibited in the traveling show 'People in a Landscape', which toured Germany, Russia, Switzerland, and Turkey between 2002 and 2003. In 2004, her work was featured in 'Explained II: A Closer Look at Aboriginal Art' at the AAMU Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Freda Warlapinni's artworks are held in several esteemed public collections, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Internationally, her pieces are part of the collection at the AAMU Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Utrecht and the Kerry Stokes Collection in Perth.
REFERENCES
Jennifer Isaacs, 'Spirit Country: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art', San Francisco and Melbourne: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Hardie Grant Books, 1999
Judith Ryan et al, 'Art of the Tiwi from the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria', exh. cat., Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1994