Delores Tipuamantumirri
Artwork title: Winga (tidal movement; waves)
Medium: Natural ochres with acrylic binders on linen
Size: 180 x 150 cm
About the Artwork
This work depicts the tidal movement of waters in and around the Tiwi Islands. Influencing fishing and hunting opportunities, the movement of water carries masses of silt and sand, transforming the land and changing the coastal landscape. Winga can also be translated as 'waves', just one part of the changing tides. Delores has a strong bond to the waters surrounding the Tiwi Islands, forged by a lifetime of memories living encircled within the tides of the Arafura Sea.
About the Artist
Delores Tipuamantumirri’s mesmeric impressions of shifting light and movement pulsates a tempo of rippling patterns on her canvases that evokes the remarkable Tiwi cosmology and traditions, the rhythms of the sacred ceremonial dances, the dancing bodies decorated with dotted streams of ochre colours, and her country and its sparkling seas.
Image courtesy Gina Allain and Munupi Art