Estelle Munkanome Tiwi, b. 1960
'I like painting cards and beads and silk (scarves). Like putting wax on the silk. I like painting circles and lines with ochre paints.'
Estelle has been working with Ngaruwanajirri, Nguiu, Bathurst Island, since 1996. Her early works with natural ochres were very delicate.
The structure and ideas in Estelle`s paintings are often reflected in her batiks on silk, where she uses Naphtol dyes and Drimarine K dyes.
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Estelle MunkanomeUntitled, 2019ochres on Arches paper (framed)76 x 57 cm$ 1,500.00
29 7/8 x 22 1/2 in
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Estelle MunkanomeDance: Sharknatural ochres on paper28 x 38 cm (image size)$ 480.00
11 x 15 inSee more...
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Small Works, Big Stories
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Synergy: Art from the Heartlands of Aboriginal Australia
Fundraising exhibition in partnership with Xavier College. 1 - 17 Sep 2021FUNDRAISING ONLINE EXHIBITION FOR THE INDIGENOUS LITERACY FOUNDATION. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE STUDENT COMMITTEE FOR INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS, XAVIER COLLEGE. Paintings and carvings by established and rising star Aboriginal artists from...Read more -
ReGeneration
Showing, teaching, passing down.... 29 Sep - 25 Nov 2019Celebrating spring and the season of renewal with an expansive exhibition of new Aboriginal art from the APY Lands, the Western, Central & Eastern Deserts, the Pilbara, Qld, Arnhem Land,...Read more -
Top End Ochre
Buku-Larrnggay Mulka, Maningrida Arts, Munupi Arts, Tiwi Design 10 May - 4 Jun 2019Read more
'I like painting cards and beads and silk (scarves). Like putting wax on the silk. I like painting circles and lines with ochre paints.'
Estelle has been working with Ngaruwanajirri, Nguiu, Bathurst Island, since 1996. Her early works with natural ochres were very delicate. Her Dance is Shark, Skin Group Takaringa (Mullet), her mother's Country is Jikarruwu ( Cape Fourcroy), Bathurst Island, and her father's Country is Port Hurd, Bathurst Island.
More recent paintings have become bolder in line and colour and dot. The structure and ideas in Estelle`s paintings are often reflected in her batiks on silk, where she uses Naphtol dyes and Drimarine K dyes.
Her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions since 1998, including 'Threading the Commonwealth : Textile, Tradition, Culture, Trade and Politics', RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2006 and `Ngaruwanajirri: helping one another`, Charles Darwin University Art Gallery, Darwin, 2011.
Her work is held in the collection of the NGV.
