Durrmu Arts Aboriginal Corporation in Peppimenarti | Charitable organisation

Durrmu Arts Aboriginal Corporation

Locality: Peppimenarti

Phone: +61 8 8978 1322

Address: PMB 56 via Winnellie 0822 Peppimenarti, NT, Australia

Website: http://www.durrmuarts.com.au/

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25.01.2022 Regina Pilawuk Wilson and her ‘Syaw' (fish net), 2016, acrylic on linen, 120cm x 120 cm. This painting depicts a ‘syaw’ (fish-net) traditionally woven with ‘pinbin’ (bush vine) by the women and men of Peppimenarti to capture fish and cray-fish from fresh water creeks and rivers. Check out this artwork, and many more at our online booth at The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair www.daaf.com.au/Art_Centres/Durrmu-arts

25.01.2022 Regina Pilawuk Wilson’s ‘wupun’ (sunmat) was officially unveiled on Monday evening at the NT Department of Health’s Manunda Place in Darwin. The evening began with a smoking ceremony and Larrakia Welcome to Country, speeches by the Minister of Health The Hon. Natasha Fyles, Regina, her son Henry Wilson, and concluded with a dance performance by community members. Special thanks to... @uapcompany @ntgovernment Sandran Youth Mill #reginapilawukwilson #durrmuarts #manundaplace #artcommission #publicart #contemporaryart

24.01.2022 Annunciata Dartinga, ‘Barramundi scales’ (2020), acrylic on canvas, 80cm x 50cm Annunciata has depicted the scales of a freshly caught saltwater barramundi. When they first come out of the water, they are like a rainbow Annunciata was born in Wadeye in 1953 and spent her schooling years there before moving back into her country at Fossil Head. Annunciata began painting in 2018 after moving to Peppimenarti in 2017 to live with her daughter Grace and two grandchildren. ... This artwork, and many others, are available at our online booth at @darwinartfair, link in bio! #durrmuarts #peppimenarti #barramundi #saltwaterbarramundi #painting #keepingculturestrong #darwinartfair #DAAF2020 #onlineartfair #DarwinAboriginalArtFair #DarwinAboriginalArtFair2020 @ Peppimenarti

23.01.2022 Regina Pilawuk Wilson harvesting for ‘purple colour’ in Palumpa with family. The berries of the 'Haemodorum coccineum' plant makes a vibrant and rich purple colour used to dye sand palm for weavings, while the root of this plant can be used to make a brown colour. #harvesting #durrmuarts #fibreart #weaving #culturalmaintenance #keepingculturestrong #nimbi #nimbiproject #peppimenarti #palumpa

23.01.2022 Durrmu Arts' Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Digital Booth is officially open to all of our VIPs! Please head to DAAF.com.au/Art_Centres/durrmu-arts and use password 'DAAF2020vip' for special VIP entry into our collection. In August 2019 (pictured), Regina Pilawuk Wilson addressed the audience at the Opening Ceremony of DAAF in Darwin with a compelling and inspiring speech about the importance of keeping culture strong for our next generation. Now, more than ever, we need to reme...mber these words of strength and leadership as we all band together as a collective to proudly showcase our culture and legacy to audiences online. We're all in this together. We hope you can make it and be one of the first to browse our digital booth and collection! From 10am ACST Friday August 7 our DAAF portal will be accessible online to everyone, so tell your friends to come and visit us! @darwinartfair #durrmuarts #peppimenarti #peppi #daaf2020 #nimbi #keepingculturestrong #artfair #onlineartfair #DarwinAboriginalArtFair #DarwinAboriginalArtFair2020 #vipaccess #reginapilawukwilson #indigenousartist #indigenousartcentre #remotecommunity #culturalmaintenance #nextgeneration

23.01.2022 A herd of majestic wild horses galloping on the plains of Peppimenarti #peppimenarti #wildhorses #horses #remotecommunity #durrmuarts #dronefootage

22.01.2022 A celebratory day at Durrmu Arts! Regina Pilawuk Wilson has struck her final stroke of her commissioned three-panelled 'wupun' for her site-specific ground-lobby artwork for Manunda Place in Darwin. "3 months and 2 days" is how long Regina has been working on this masterpiece, and with a sense of relief and accomplishment, she celebrated with family this morning. In true Regina style, she is already on to the next project, but not before going fishing with her family this Sun...day... Congratulations Regina! UAP #artcommission #reginapilawukwilson #durrmuarts #peppimenarti #manundaplace #publicart #publicartcommission #culturalmaintenance

22.01.2022 Joy Wilson's Warrgadi T-shirts are selling quickly! Available in 3 colours; Rose, Sage and Caroline Blue (pictured) available exclusively on our website >>>https://www.durrmuarts.com/s/joy-wilson-warrgadi-womens-tee

22.01.2022 Repost @ngvmelbourne To celebrate #InternationalDayofIndigenousPeoples, Hannah Presley, NGV Curator of Indigenous Art, shares her personal connection with Regina Pilawuk Wilson’s Syaw (Fish Net): Regina Pilawuk Wilson is a Ngan’gikurrungurr woman from the Daly River region of the Northern Territory. Regina is a strong cultural leader for the Peppimenarti community and an acclaimed artist and weaver. She is also my family. Syaw (Fish Net) is a significant painting that tra...nslates the traditional weaving practices that Regina has protected throughout her life, into acrylic on canvas. In the early 1970s, Regina and her husband, Harry Wilson, moved away from the Daly River mission, where language and culture were strictly prohibited, and set up an Aboriginal community at Peppimenarti to ensure the survival of their culture. My grandfather, Albert Presley, was from Peppimenarti. When he was a child, the government took him from his mother and his siblings and placed him at the Bungalows, at the Old Telegraph Station in Alice Springs. Syaw (Fish Net) is a particularly important work to me as it connects me to my grandfather’s Country and reminds me that I have a strong cultural connection that Regina fought for, and that her family and community have ensured survives for our new generations. #NGVEveryDay Regina Pilawuk Wilson Syaw (Fish net) 2008 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, NGV Supporters of Indigenous Art, 2008 Regina Pilawuk Wilson/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia

21.01.2022 Durrmu artists' Regina Pilawuk Wilson and Kathleen Korda have been mentioned as artists and cultural leaders who have influenced artist Katie West as part of Buxton Contemporary’s ‘Creative Cosmos'; a digital program of conversations with artists. Katie met Regina and Kathleen while attending a weaving workshop at @lot19artspace in Castlemaine. Who are some of the thinkers, artists and cultural leaders who influence you?... I admire Regina Pilawuk Wilson and Kathleen Korda, artists from Peppimenarti, west of Darwin, in the Northern Territory. I met Regina and Kathleen while they were visiting Castlemaine, Victoria, to run a workshop on how to make string from palm leaf and how to dye the fibre. This was the first time I had ever been shown how to make string by rubbing the fibre on your leg in a back-and-forth motion. The process requires a gentle touch and nuanced knowledge in your fingertips, and once expertly mastered, it is a quick and efficient method. Regina and Kathleen are highly skilled and are generous with their knowledge, which is deeply entwined with family and country. Knowing their history and how Peppimenarti came to be as a community, I deeply admire and look up to them as artists and elders. #culturalleaders #durrmuarts #durrmuartists #weaving #peppimenarti #keepingculturestrong #weavingworkshop #sharingculture #intergenerationalknowledge #nimbi @ Castlemaine, Victoria

20.01.2022 What a catch! Night fishing for barramundi on the Moyle River #peppimenarti #durrmuarts #reginapilawukwilson #nightfishing #barramundi #moyleriver

18.01.2022 Regina Pilawuk Wilson has been incredibly busy this past month completing her commissioned 'Wupun' (sunmat) for the newly-developed Manunda Place ground floor lobby in Darwin. Consisting of three giant panels, which are nearly 10m in scale, has required meticulous attention to detail of matching the correct lines and colours across each panel. Regina is onto her third and final panel, and we cannot wait to show you the final piece when it is unveiled at the opening of Manunda Place in October! @uapcompany #reginapilawukwilson #artcommission #wupun #sunmat #durrmuarts #manundaplace #publicart #healing #community #uap

17.01.2022 Always was, always will be In honour of NAIDOC week, we would like to take this opportunity to celebrate and reflect upon the achievements of our senior artist and inspirational cultural leader Regina Pilawuk Wilson, who founded the community of Peppimenarti and is one of the most renowned and leading Indigenous artists, both in Australia and internationally. In all of her accomplishments, Regina’s greatest achievement has, and always will be, her family. Regina is an em...powered senior leader, advisor, abutyu (grandmother), inspiration, aspiration and foundational rock, bestowing and teaching cultural maintenance through the sharing of intergenerational knowledge with her children, grandchildren and us all, to sustain important traditional cultural practices and keep culture strong for all future generations. To the past, the present, and the future generations of our Country, we thank you Regina. #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #NAIDOCweek #DurrmuArts #ReginaPilawukWilson #CulturalLeader

16.01.2022 Durrmu Arts is proud to be apart of a unique virtual Pinterest exhibition 'Northern Indigenous Renaissance' This online exhibition is a new initiative that aims to promote, celebrate and showcase Indigenous Art Centres and artists across Northern Australia. Art is old. It was passed on from our ancestors to our grandfathers to our fathers to us. Art is talking about the land, the sea, about our culture, about our connection, about our kinship relationships songs, dance, ...names, places, country, sacred sites. These things are important to us. ANKA Directors Statement Thank you to ANKA - Arnhem Northern & Kimberley Artists, Aboriginal Corporation for selecting and featuring Durrmu Arts for this unique project. Have a look at our board through the link below, and check out the other Art Centres involved! Babbarra Women's Centre Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Injalak Arts Gunbalanya Jilamara Milingimbi Art and Culture Centre Ngukurr Art Centre Warlayirti Artists - Balgo Warmun Art Centre https://www.pinterest.com.au/ANKArtists/durrmu-arts/

16.01.2022 Regina Pilawuk Wilson sorting through the recently harvested 'te' which is the source of the beautiful, vibrant and rich purple colour present within many of Durrmu Arts’ fibre artworks. First we sort it and clean it, and then we boil it with merrepen. We sort out the dry berries which give you a light pink colour, and then the ripe ones we squeeze into the water and boil it with the fibre and it makes purple. That's what we do." #purplecolour #te #weaving #fibreart #durrmuarts #makingcolours #merrepen #purple #keepingculturestrong #culturalmaintenance #reginapilawukwilson #NIMBI #NIMBIproject #peppimenarti

16.01.2022 Durrmu Artists Annunciata Dartinga and Regina Pilawuk Wilson have been stripping merrepen (sand palm) and pandanus (yerrgi) as the wet season approaches. Although merrepen can be collected all year round, pandanus is ideally harvested and collected during the wet season as it dries out quickly and is easier to strip while wet. While merrepen takes only 5-10 minutes to dry after being stripped, pandanus can take up to an hour. Stripped merrepen and pandanus are used to make fi... (string), which can be used to make weavings, string bags and fish nets. Wet season rainy days in Peppimenarti are best spent weaving with merrepen and pandanus on the Durrmu Arts deck #durrmuarts #durrmuartists #annunciatadartinga #reginapilawukwilson #peppimenarti #wetseason #merrepen #sandpalm #pandanus #yerrgi #weaving #culturalmaintenance #keepingculturestrong #NIMBI #NIMBIproject

16.01.2022 Durrmu Arts' fibre works are currently on display at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin, as part of the exhibition 'WALIPAN/PULI PULI' (Weaving/Fishnets and Rocks) The exhibition brings together the sunmat and fishnet weavings of Durrmu Artists Regina Pilawuk Wilson and Pauline Longmirr, along with the beautiful paintings of Ikuntji Artists Artist Keturah Zimran. "If [my mother] didn't teach us how to make walipan or string bag, I wouldn't know how to do it, b...ut I do because my mother taught us" - Regina Pilawuk Wilson If you are in Darwin, please go and check it out The exhibition is open until the 21st November. #durrmuarts #ncca #walipan #weaving #fibreart #artexhibition #reginapilawukwilson #paulinelongmirr #fishnet #sunmat #peppimenarti #culturalmaintenance #keepingculturestrong #NIMBI #ikuntjiarts #contemporaryart #intergenerationalsharing

16.01.2022 Australian music legend Slim Dusty wrote a song called 'Plains of Peppimenarti' after spending time here in the early 1980s. These photos are from our archive during the filming of the music video clip. We think his lyrics sum up Peppimenarti pretty well... Now I've been around Australia and I've travelled everywhere But there's one place I really like to go Where the land is big and wide and tall dark ringers ride... On the plains of Peppimenarti, where the old Moyle River flows And I've mentioned this before And it's a story that I'm always proud to tell. May the march of time never ever bring too many changes To a way of life you people love and prize May the years ahead be good ones And you never lose your customs With old Peppimenarti Hill looking down so old and wise And the Kangaroo still bounds on that rough and rugged ground The ant hills and the old pandanus grow Yes and everyday's a Sunday if you're catching Barramundi By the plains of Peppimenarti, where the old Moyle River flows ‘Plains of Peppimenarti’ words and music by Slim Dusty Here is a link to the video clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpiHJ_-mXX4 #peppimenarti #slimdusty #slimandi #peppimenartihill #plainsofpeppimenarti #fromthearchive #NIMBI #NIMBIproject #keepingculturestrong #culturalmaintenance #durrmuarts

15.01.2022 Regina Pilawuk Wilson recently visited her ancestor's homeland and the sacred rock art hill of Pinnydu. Regina's father's family lived here, where they would roast kangaroo on the stone with fire using bark tree, and also use the bark tree as blankets to sleep. The rock art is made using ochre; the colours of red, yellow, and white made by smashing the ochre and mixing it with water in their mouths to then mark the rock with their hands. These markings can be dated back over ...40,000 years, and as Regina says 'the colours are still so strong', even the little yellow and white baby feet markings which are on the ceiling... Regina took three of her grandson's here for the first time; Preston, Tristan and Harry. A spiritual and peaceful place where a strong connection to Country and their ancestor's can be deeply felt. This special place is hidden and should only be accessed with the permission and accompaniment of the traditional owners of the land. Legend has it, if you can find this special place without a traditional owner and attempt to take a photo, the photo will come out white and blank... #reginapilawukwilson #rockart #rockarthill #ochre #peppimenarti #westdaly #traditionalculture #culturalmaintenance #keepingculturestrong #traditionalowners #sacred #connectiontocountry #NIMBI #NIMBIproject #intergenerationallearning

14.01.2022 Durrmu Artist Anastasia 'Naiya' Wilson has been working with the legendary screen printer Tim Growcott over the past week creating Durrmu Arts designed fabrics and t-shirts showcasing the designs of our artists. Stock of these fresh fabrics and t-shirts will be available on our new Durrmu Arts website www.durrmuarts.com in the coming weeks...we will let you know when they are up and available for purchase! #durrmuarts #durrmudesigns #durrmu #naiyawilson #peppimenarti #screenprinting #screenprintingworkshop #timgrowcott #artcentre #fabric #tshirts #indigenousdesigns #indigenousart #contemporaryart

14.01.2022 Sunset at Peppimenarti #peppimenarti #durrmuarts #sunset #keepingculturestrong

13.01.2022 The wet season is coming early this year... bring on the rain! #2020 #peppimenarti

13.01.2022 Over the past few months, Regina Pilawuk Wilson has been partaking in the 2020 Durrmu Arts Marrgu Digital Residency ‘Marrgu’ means ‘knowledge sharing’ or ‘new start’ in Peppimenarti’s Tyemirri language and is a residency program, established in 2018, which offers an exceptional opportunity for artists and creative practitioners to engage with the Peppimenarti community in a valuable cultural exchange. In this digital iteration of our Marrgu residency program, Regina has been ...corresponding with Artist Katie West (@katiewularni) who belongs to the Yindjibarndi people of the Pilbara tablelands in Western Australia, and Fayen D’Evie (@muckletimes), a Malaysian-born, Aotearoa-New Zealand-raised artist, who now resides in the bushlands of unceded Dja Dja Wurrung country in Victoria. Here, Regina is creating two ‘mail art’ postcards to post to Katie and Fayen in a cultural exchange that extends to, and connects, each artist in a tactile way, in spite of the physical restrictions and impacts of 2020. We have been exchanging and sharing our natural materials from each artists’ local regional areas, with all ideas organically building and developing over time into what will be a new and original (and also as yet, unknown) final artwork from the influences of the residency. Please follow us and our residency through #marrgu2020 The project is curated by Miriam La Rosa (@miriamlarosa) and supported by the Australia Council for the Arts #durrmuarts #marrgu #marrgu2020 #marrguresidency #artistresidency #digitalartistresidency #peppiemnarti #australiacouncil #ausco #mailart #culturalexchange #knowledgesharing #knowledgetransfer #reginapilawukwilson #culturalmaintenance #contemporaryart #katiewest #fayendevie

11.01.2022 Annunciata 'Nunuk' Wilson has been working on a customised painting for the amazing team at @Willie_Weston Willie Weston’s ambition is to celebrate the diverse artistic output of Indigenous artists, to challenge preconceptions about Indigenous design, and to support its integration into our built environments. Nunuk's painting is to be reproduced to make various textiles, wallpaper, and other furnishings. We can't wait to share the finished products!... #durrmuarts #peppi #peppimenarti #nunukwilson #annunciatanunukwilson #willieweston #indigenousdeisgn #indigenousart #textiles #keepingculturestrong #celebrationofculture

10.01.2022 The Peppimenarti Community is located 300km south west of Darwin and 100km from the Daly River Crossing. ‘Peppi’ translates as ‘rock’ and ‘menarti’ as ‘large’, referring to the rock formation that overlooks the community. In the early 70s, Harold Wilson and his wife Regina, were instrumental in the community’s establishment. Wilson was born in Peppimenarti country, and after being removed from his family and sent to government institutions as a child, he decided to return th...ere as an adult with his family and set up a permanent settlement for the Ngan’gikurrunggurr people. The Peppimenarti community continues to practice and keep culture strong everyday. #peppimenarti #durrmuarts #keepingculturestrong #culturalmaintenance #dalyriver #reginapilawukwilson #strongculture #strongfuture #NIMBI #NIMBIproject #community

10.01.2022 Tarnanthi Art Fair opens TODAY AT 5PM!! If you’re in Adelaide then come down to Lot Fourteen this afternoon or over the weekend to check out all of the extraordinary art on display from 49 Art Centres right around Australia. And for those of you who can’t be here in person, the fair is also online via a portal (already open!) on AGSA’s website. ... @tarnanthi @agsa.adelaide @lotfourteenadl @skeinarchitecture #tarnanthi #tarnanthiartfair #agsaadelaide - Art centres represented in this image: @bukuartnow @milingimbiartandculture @durrmuarts @gapuwiyakcultureandarts @injalakarts @ninuku_arts @warmunart @papunyatulaartists @spinifexhillartists @kaltjitiarts

09.01.2022 ‘Warrgadi’ (string dilly bag) is made from merrepen (sand-palm or livistona humilis) fibre, which is stripped and rolled along the leg into ‘fi’ (twine), and then woven using a simple loop, knotless netting technique. This method is used to make traditional fishing nets, as well as the ‘handbag’ style of dilly bags. At the very beginning of the wet season the natural pigments (berries, roots and ash) are collected and used to dye the merrepen fibres. Check out our collection of ‘warrgadi’ our online booth at Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair www.daaf.com.au/Art_Centres/Durrmu-arts #warrgadi #stringdillybag #dillybag #sandpalm #fibreart #weaving #durrmuarts #peppimenarti #keepingculturestrong #darwinartfair #DAAF2020 #DarwinAboriginalArtFair

09.01.2022 Congratulations to Regina Pilawuk Wilson who has just been selected as a finalist and will exhibit her work String Game (2018) in the upcoming 66th Blake Prize exhibition at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (CPAC) in Sydney (13 February 2021 11 April 2021)! The 'string game' (pictured) introduces the younger generations into the spiritual and connectedness of meaningful and culturally important motifs. By using our hands to metaphorically weave the symbols and ideas of signifi...cant animals and plants of our cultural heritage allows us to explore these motifs in a collaborative and meaningful way, sharing and exploring ideas passed down by our ancestors. Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre The Blake Prize #stringgame #durrmuarts #reginapilawukwilson #peppimenarti #blakeprize #cpac #culturalmaintenance #intergenerationalknowledge #keepingculturestrong

09.01.2022 Annunciata Dartinga and Regina Pilawuk Wilson with a 'malarrgu' (long-neck turtle) caught from the flood plains of Peppimenarti. There are two ways to catch malarrgu; you can use a stick or metal rod to prod the mud and then listen and feel for the 'clunk' on the shell, or you can carefully watch for the unique oval-shaped air bubbles which appear on the surface of the water and then catch them with your hands. Malarrgu is Regina's absolute favourite food to cook and eat. #malarrgu #longneckturtle #durrmuarts #peppimenarti #keepingculturestrong #nimbi #nimbiproject #culturalmaintenance #bushfood #recordingculture #fishing

09.01.2022 Congratulations to Regina Pilawuk Wilson and @basilhalleditions on this beautiful printmaking collaboration which has been accepted as a finalist for both the ‘Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award’ and the Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery ‘2020 National Works on Paper’ exhibition! Congratulations to Regina and Basil on this beautiful etching made together in Canberra in December 2019. @swanhillartgal @mprg_vic #reginapilawukwilson #basilhall #durrmuarts #awardsfinalist #printmaking #collaboration #2020 #mornington #swanhill #artawards #worksonpaper

09.01.2022 Durrmu Arts is proud to be participating in the 2020 AIATSIS Indigenous Art Market #IAMaiatsis, which opens online tomorrow! Register now to stay up to date with the beautiful artworks available from Durrmu Arts for #IAMaiatsis and get exclusive access for launch! https://aiatsis.gov.au/iam Event dates:... Sunday, 8 November 2020 to Sunday, 15 November 2020 See more

07.01.2022 This sunmat is a Wilson-family artistic collaboration. Regina Pilawuk Wilson and her granddaughter, Leaya Smith, weaved this beautifully delicate sunmat together. Leaya weaved the bright and intricate circular centre, while Regina has woven the surrounding curvaceous and complex outer areas. When looking closely, you can see the subtle differences in colours, pattern and style between the outer and inner areas, yet the distinctive Wilson-weaving-style remains strong. This sun...mat was created for Regina's daughter, and Leaya's mother, Annunciata 'Nunuk' Wilson, and is a beautiful example of an intergenerational transfer of knowledge of cultural traditions into our future generations. #keepingculturestrong #reginapilawukwilson #leayasmith #annunciatanunukwilson #sunmat #wupun #durrmuarts #peppimenarti #family #wilsonmob #NIMBI #NIMBIproject #culturalmaintaince #familycollaboration #weaving #contemporaryart #indigenousart #contemporaryindigenousart

07.01.2022 This evening is the official unveiling of Regina Pilawuk Wilson's commissioned 'wupun' (2020) within the ground floor lobby of the NT Department of Health's commercial precinct Manunda Place in Darwin. Unfortunately, due to necessary COVID-19 considerations, the opening is now a closed event. Fortunately, the opening is still going ahead with the Honourable Minister Natasha Fyles, Regina, and her son Henry to officially unveil the artwork to the public. Congratulations on thi...s massive achievement, Regina! @uapcompany #reginapilawukwilson #syaw #manundaplace #publicart #uap #artcommission #culturalmaintence #ntgovernment #durrmuarts #peppimenarti #keepingculturestrong #wilsonfamily #contemporaryart

06.01.2022 This is Durrmu Arts artist Grace Dodson and her latest work ‘Nathi pirrihi purrpurr’ (Fossil Head Little People), 2020, acrylic on canvas, 100x120cm. In the cliffs, there is a special rock where ‘little people’ can be seen in the fossils. These ‘little people’ signify the alive and felt presence of the spirits of her ancestors still alive within the cliffs and Country; Fossil Head is Grace’s Mothers' Country. Born in 1980, Grace is daughter to Durrmu Artist Annunciata Darting...a and daughter-in-law to Regina Pilawuk Wilson. Married to Regina’s son Henry Wilson, Grace has lived in Peppimenarti for many years, with Henry and their two sons. Grace works full-time as a nurse at the Peppimenarti Clinic, and uses painting as a way to relax and clear her mind after a busy day at work. She also likes to paint when working the night on-call shifts, shifting from the chaos to calm through her painting. Her calm, soft and delicate colour palette is inspired by stories from her Mothers' Country at Fossil Head. Check out this artwork, and many more at our online booth at The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair > www.daaf.com.au/Art_Centres/Durrmu-arts #fossilhead #durrmuarts #peppimenarti #littlepeople #gracedodson #keepingculturestrong #darwinartfair #DAAF2020 #onlineartfair #DarwinAboriginalArtFair #DarwinAboriginalArtFair2020 @ Peppimenarti

05.01.2022 Meet Artist Pauline Longmirr. Pauline was born in 1957 and has lived her whole life in the Daly River region. First cousin to Regina Pilawuk Wilson, Pauline recalls weaving with Regina when she was living in Peppimenarti in the mid 1970s. This is Pauline's 'Wupun' (Sun Mat) weaving made from merrepen (sand palm) and natural dyes. The merrepen has been rolled and stitched together, a particular style she learnt from her cousin Regina. Find out more about this work, and browse our online booth at the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, https://daaf.com.au/Art_Centres/durrmu-arts/

04.01.2022 There are only 5 more hours of the 2020 online Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair! Durrmu Arts still has a few amazing artworks available at our online booth, come and visit us at The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair > www.daaf.com.au/Art_Centres/Durrmu-arts

03.01.2022 Tarnanthi is the annual Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and its curated digital portal is open! Through this curated online platform, you can buy directly from Indigenous art centres across Australia, with every cent going back to our First Nations artists and communities. You can support Durrmu Arts through the purchase of these artworks (and many more) available exclusively online, link in bio. ... Tarnanthi Art Fair Online 27 Nov - 6 Dec 2020 Image 1: Marie Jabinee Image 2: Miriam Byrnes Image 3: Dakota Wilson @tarnanthi @agencyprojects @agsa.adelaide #tarnanthi #tarnanthiartfair #agsaadelaide #agencyprojects #durrmuarts #onlineportal #artfair #festivalofcontemporaryart #contemporaryindigenousart #indigenousart #contemporaryart

01.01.2022 On this beautiful rainy October Friday afternoon...on our inspired, sheltered, and expansive deck at Durrmu Arts...our senior artist and cultural leader Regina Pilawuk Wilson is painting her new 2x2m Wupun (sun mat) canvas exclusively for the upcoming Tarnanthi Art Fair... We can't wait to share the finished creation with you all at Tarnanthi 2020! #durrmuarts #reginapilawukwilson #peppimenarti #painting #wupun #sunmat #tarnanthi #tarnanthi2020 #indigenousartfair #artfair #keepingculturestrong #culturalmaintenance #contemporaryart #indigenousart #contemporaryindigenousart