Kaye Brown: Yirrinkiripwoja

Kaye Brown: Yirrinkiripwoja

Aboriginal & Pacific Art in association with Jilamara Arts and Crafts, Melville Island, NT proudly presents the first solo show of:

Kaye Brown: Yirrinkiripwoja 3 - 25 July 2020

Kaye is a senior Tiwi culture woman. She is well versed in the old ways, traditional stories and speaks the ‘hard’ Tiwi language.

Kaye started painting at Jilamara Arts and Craft later in life after she retired from work. Prior to this she taught at the local primary school and worked at the library.

She loves teaching culture to the local primary school children who come to Jilamara for culture classes. She has a wealth of local knowledge about Tiwi culture and the history of the Tiwi people and ancestors.

She uses the Kayimwagakimi (carved ironwood comb) and natural ochres for Melville Island to paint. Her jilamara (body paint design) and pwoja (body) styles are very layered and reminiscent of some of the old Tiwi artists and the body painting styles hey used to prepare for ceremony and yoi (dance).

Kaye paints on bark, canvas and paper, but is particularly drawn to painting on stringybark sourced from around Milikapiti. Although relatively new to the art centre, Kaye is gaining recognition as a leading female artist at Jilamara. She is set to have her first solo exhibition in 2020 and was a finalist in the NATSIAA Bark category in 2018. She made her first limited edition print in 2017 and also has a very successful design as part of Jilamara’s screen printed textiles line.

Kaye Brown

Kaye Brown Pwoja #10-20 Natural ochres on stringybark 70 x 23 cm

Kaye Brown Pwoja #11-20 Natural ochres on stringybark 71 x 18 cm

Kaye Brown Pwoja #164-20 Natural ochres on stringybark 112 x 35 cm

Kaye Brown Pwoja #165-20 Natural ochres on stringybark 128 x 18 cm

Kaye Brown Pwoja #166-20 Natural ochres on stringybark 85 x 28 cm

Kaye Brown Pwoja #167-20 Natural ochres on stringybark 68 x 16 cm

Kaye Brown Pwoja #363-19 Natural ochres on stringybark 117 x 13 cm

Kaye Brown Pwoja #9-20 Natural ochres on stringybark 68 x 17 cm

Kaye Brown Yirrinkiripwoja #208-20 Natural ochres on stringybark 110 x 36 cm

Kaye Brown Yirrinkiripwoja #209-20 Natural ochres on stringybark 82 x 25 cm

Kaye Brown Pwoja #453-19 Natural ochres on stringybark 129 x 16 cm

Kaye Brown Yirrinkiripwoja #211-20 Natural ochres on stringybark 75 x 23 cm

Kaye Brown Biography BORN: REGION: COUNTRY: LANGUAGE: SKIN GROUP: DANCE:

1954 Milikapiti, Melville Island Andranganoo (Goose Creek) Tiwi Scaly Mullet Tartuwali (Shark)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 TIWI, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (upcoming) Jilamara: circles, dots, lines, Artspace, Woolloomooloo, Sydney 2019 PUPUNI JILAMARA NGININGWULA (Our Beautiful Paintings), Doubletree by Hilton, Darwin, NT Tarnanthi Art Fair, Tandanya, Adelaide, SA Jilamara, Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop, Queenscliff, VIC turnuwa amintiya kirijipuni, Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA 2018 Finalist Bark Prize, Telstra NATSIAA, MAGNET, Darwin NT Tarnanthi Art Fair, Tandanya, Adelaide, SA Nginingawula Awirankini Waki (Our New Work), Jilamara and Munupi Group exhibition, Double Tree Hilton, Darwin 2017 Ngini Parlingarri Amintiya Ningani, Collins Place Gallery, Melbourne, VIC Mamirnikiwi Jilamara, Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA Ngini Parlingarri Amintiya Ningani, Nomad Art Gallery, Darwin, NT Yirringinkiri Pwoja, Hilton Double Tree, Darwin, NT 2016 Ngawila Jilamara, Hilton Double Tree, Darwin, NT 2015 Tiwi Mamirnikuwi Jilamara: Tiwi Women Painting - The Cross Art Projects, Sydney, NSW 2015 Palya Arts, Melbourne, VIC 2015 Kuripapuranjuwi Ngini Ngawila Jilamara Kapi Ngawa Tiwi - Tiwi Show, Darwin, NT 2015 Counting Tidelines – Nan Giese Gallery, Darwin, NT 2013 Going forward - Tiwi Art Network exhibition, Darwin, NT

3 – 25 July 2020

Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney in association with Jilamara Arts and Crafts, Melville Island, NT

All images copyright the Artists.

Courtesy of the artists and Jilamara Arts and Crafts

Aboriginal & Pacific Art 1/24 Wellington Street Waterloo NSW 2017 Australia Ph: +61 2 9699 2211 info@aboriginalpacificart.com.au www.aboriginalpacificart.com.au