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CURRICULUM VITAE: CONRAD TIPUNGWUTI

BORN: 24/9/66
STATE: NT
REGION: MELVILLE ISLAND
DOMICILE: MILIKAPITI
AGENCY: JILAMARA ARTS & CRAFTS
COUNTRY: RANKU
LANGUAGE: TIWI
SKIN GROUP:  ARRINKUWUNILA (STONE)
DANCE: TARRANIGI (BUFFALO)

COLLECTIONS HELD:

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Victoria.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

1997 Old Patterns Framed Gallery Darwin NT
1997 Old Tiwi. Alcaston House Gallery Melbourne
1997 Kartukuni Amintiya Jurra (Ironwood and Paper) Hogarth Gallery, Paddington NSW
1998 The Old and the New, Gallery Gondwana Alice Springs NT
1998 Ngawa Mantawi Mossenson Gallery Subiaco WA
1998 Group exhibition Alcaston House, Melbourne Victoria
1998 Jilamara Mossenson Gallery, Subiaco WA
1999 All About Art, Alcaston Gallery, Canberra
1999 Tiwi on Wood, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
1999 New Paintings from Milikapiti, Redback Gallery, Brisbane
1999 Art of the Tiwi Framed Gallery Darwin
2000 Ngawiyati Mgapamurrumi - We Work Together Textiles show at Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2001 Jilamara Jilamara Framed Gallery Darwin
2001 Island Images Australian Print Workshop Melbourne
2001 26th Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award Fremantle Art Centre
2002 Pwoja Jilamara Raft Artspace Darwin
2003 Let’s Keep Our Art Strong: Recent works from the Jilamara Artists, Raft Artspace, Darwin
2005 Yirrarra – Kulama amintiya Pukumani, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Nginingaji ngawula kurrupuranji Jilamara, RAFT Artspace, Darwin
2006 Yirrajirrima murrakupuni ngawurraningimarri, Tiwi Art Network, Darwin
2006 Jilamara:  new etchings from Melville Island, Northern Editions, Darwin
2006 Jilamara:  new etchings from Melville Island, Northern Editions, Alison Kelly Gallery Melbourne
2006  Jilamara works on paper, Sofitel Melbourne
2007 Red, Yellow, Black, White, Raft Artspace, Darwin

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Bennett, J. 'Ngingingawala Jilamara kapi purunguparri (Our Bark Paintings),' Gallery Monthly Magazine of the National Gallery Society of Victoria, September 1992
Bennett, J 'Narrative and decoration in Tiwi painting: Tiwi representations of the Purukuparli Story,'  Art Bulletin of Victoria 33, 39-47. 1993
The Body Tiwi Aboriginal Art from Melville and Bathurst Islands, exhib. cat., The University Gallery, University of Tasmania at Launceston 1993
Art of the Tiwi from the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, catalogue, NGV Melbourne 1994