Description
About the Author
Diana Wood Conroy is an artist and scholar. Her research interests combine contemporary visual cultures with the archaeology of fresco and textiles in Cyprus in many publications, most recently in The Handbook of Textile Culture (with Janis Jefferies and Hazel Clark, in 2018) and in Weaving Culture in Europe (published in Athens, Greece, 2017). Her artwork in tapestry and drawing is held in national and international collections. She is Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Bede Tungutalum Ampuruwaiuah, Tuuntulumi, Tiwi people, was born in 1952 at Wurrumiyanga (Nguiu), Bathurst Island, northern Australia. His father, well-known sculptor Gabriel Tungutalum, taught him to carve and paint traditional designs, as well as ceremonial stories, songs and dances. Bede Tungutalum works in a wide range of mediums, including carved and painted wooden sculpture, lino and textile prints, woodblocks, etchings and lithographs. His work is held in most national galleries in Australia. In 2020 Bede received the Special Recognition prize at the inaugural National Indigenous Fashion Awards, recognising 50 years in textiles.
Reviews
"Tiwi Textiles is a unique historical document, a formidable vindication of the accomplishments of great Indigenous artists, and an account of a missing chapter in world art history. The book is a wonderful chronicle of a vital and fertile period for Tiwi practice in the emergence of contemporary Indigenous art. But it is also a charter for the future.' -- Nicholas Thomas FBA FAHA Director, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Awards
Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2022 (Australia).
Book Information
ISBN 9781743328637
Author Diana Wood Conroy
Format Paperback
Page Count 360
Imprint Sydney University Press
Publisher Sydney University Press