Puantulura Street, Bathurst Island, Northern Territory 0822, Australia
Tiwi Design, located on Bathurst Island, started from a small Catholic Presbytery in 1969. Two young men, Bede Tungatalum and Giovanni Tipungwuti, worked with the art teacher, Madeline Clear, to produce woodblock prints. The artists soon began to transfer their designs onto silk screens and printing textiles quickly became a major activity.
Today, Tiwi Design artists provide diverse works acros ...
Nguiu, Bathurst Island, Northern Territory 0822, Australia
Located 80 kilometres north of Darwin, the Tiwi Islands are the combination of Bathurst and Melville Islands and collectively the Aboriginal population call themselves the Tiwi people. The Tiwi Islands remain a unique and rare opportunity to view and share this culture. You can't arrive on the islands unannounced and tour around - there are no facilities to do so. You must go with an organised tou ...
