Martumili Artists

Martumili Artists


Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by JAKAYU BILJABU of Martumili Artists. The title is Pitu. [08-414] (Acrylic on Canvas)

JAKAYU BILJABU

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Pitu

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by NANCY CHAPMAN of Martumili Artists. The title is Warla (Claypan). [08-970] (Acrylic on Linen)

NANCY CHAPMAN

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Warla (Claypan)

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by KUMPAYA GIRGIBA of Martumili Artists. The title is Kunawarritji. [08-496] (Acrylic on Canvas)

KUMPAYA GIRGIBA

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Kunawarritji

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by NORA NUNGABAR of Martumili Artists. The title is Country around Kunawarritji. [09-168] (Acrylic on Linen)

NORA NUNGABAR

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Country around Kunawarritji

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by JUDITH SAMSON of Martumili Artists. The title is Puntawarri. [09-86] (Acrylic on Canvas)

JUDITH SAMSON

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Puntawarri

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by NANCY TAYLOR of Martumili Artists. The title is Basket. [08-1063] (Spinifex and Acrylic Wool)

NANCY TAYLOR

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Basket

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by MABEL WAKARTA of Martumili Artists. The title is Karlamilyi. [08-869] (Acrylic on Canvas)

MABEL WAKARTA

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Karlamilyi

Martumili Artists is the art enterprise of the Martu people whose communities span the Great Sandy, Little Sandy and Gibson Deserts in Western Australia’s remote east Pilbara region.

In country marked by desert and salt lakes, Martu people weave their footprints from the Percival Lakes in northern Western Australia, Lake Disappointment in the south and across the iconic Canning Stock Route to the east.

It is this country that links the Martu, and through which the lines of language, family and Tjukurrpa are threaded together.

Connecting these immense swathes of land are the related languages of the Martu – Manyjilyjarra, Kartujarra, Putijarra and Warnman.

Martumili Artists works with Martu artists in all six communities dispersed through this remote but stunning country.

This is country whose remoteness sustains Martu identity, creates distinctiveness and nurtures unique talent.

A relatively new art enterprise (officially forming in 2006 after several years of negotiation and development), Martumili Artists make magic with the visual form.

The work created by this nest of 40 professional artists is experimental, contemporary and suffused with Martu experience – both cultural traditions and modern reinterpretations of tradition.Encompassing both two and three dimensional mediums (painting, fibre, wood), Martumili works reach out to the viewer and captivate.

Canvases are arresting hybrids of intense colour that are luminous and thought provoking.Finely-wrought baskets and other woven forms show technical and stylistic innovation and a modern, refined confidence.

Already a successful business enterprise and creative hub, Martumili Artists is wholly managed, facilitated, directed and marketed by the Martu people, with returns reinvested into ongoing arts practice in local communities.

The strength of Martu artists’ commitment to artistic practice is apparent not only in their artwork, which is already commanding much critical acclaim, but in the independent, rigorous and practical path Martu people shaped in establishing Martumili Artists.

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