Artist | DELORES TIPUAMANTUMIRRI

Artist | DELORES TIPUAMANTUMIRRI


Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by DELORES TIPUAMANTUMIRRI of Munupi Artists. The title is Banapa. [21-33] (Ochre on Linen)

DELORES TIPUAMANTUMIRRI

Banapa

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by DELORES TIPUAMANTUMIRRI of Munupi Artists. The title is Pwoja Jilamara. [16-618] (Ochre on Linen)

DELORES TIPUAMANTUMIRRI

Pwoja Jilamara

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by DELORES TIPUAMANTUMIRRI of Munupi Artists. The title is Banapa. [20-239] (Ochre on Linen)

DELORES TIPUAMANTUMIRRI

Banapa

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by DELORES TIPUAMANTUMIRRI of Munupi Artists. The title is Banapa. [15-274] (Ochre on Linen)

DELORES TIPUAMANTUMIRRI

Banapa

Delores Tipuamantumirri is the only child of the respected elders Cornelia and Steven Tipuamantumirri. She lives in Pirlamgimpi, Melville Island. Delores has a stepbrother, adopted by her parents after he was brought to the Tiwi Islands during the Stolen Generation of the 1960’s from Peppimenarti.

Her late father was a ceremony singer, and the first Tiwi man to joined the Tiwi Land Council. Of her artist mother, Cornelia Tipuamantumirri, whom she speaks with great respect as a good teacher of traditional Tiwi culture. It was through Cornelia that she acquired weaving, dancing and hunting skills. Now, Delores is passing on these skills to her three children and nine grandchildren.

Prior to joining Munupi Art in 2008, she worked at the Women’s centre and Aged Care in Pirlangimpi. She uses the traditional Tiwi comb for her painting, applying natural ochre tones to linen, creating a moving ripple effect suggesting a thrown fishing net.



Delores Tipuamantumirri is the only child of the respected elders Cornelia and Steven Tipuamantumirri. She lives in Pirlamgimpi, Melville Island. Delores has a stepbrother, adopted by her parents after he was brought to the Tiwi Islands during the Stolen Generation of the 1960’s from Peppimenarti.

Her late father was a ceremony singer, and the first Tiwi man to joined the Tiwi Land Council. Of her artist mother, Cornelia Tipuamantumirri, whom she speaks with great respect as a good teacher of traditional Tiwi culture. It was through Cornelia that she acquired weaving, dancing and hunting skills. Now, Delores is passing on these skills to her three children and nine grandchildren.

Prior to joining Munupi Art in 2008, she worked at the Women’s centre and Aged Care in Pirlangimpi. She uses the traditional Tiwi comb for her painting, applying natural ochre tones to linen, creating a moving ripple effect suggesting a thrown fishing net.



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