Susan Wanji Wanji
Collections
The Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD Australian Embassy, Paris
National Art Bank, Melbourne, VIC
Flinders University, Adelaide, SA
Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, NSW Art Gallery of South Australia , Adelaide, SA
National Native Title Tribunal, NT
APAMANA ( Asia Pacific Arts), Netherlands Australian National University, Canberra, ACT Macquarie University, NSW
Queensland Art Gallery, QLD
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT Levi Kaplan Collection, Seattle, USA
Artbank Collection
Australian war Memorial , Canberra, ACT
Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia
City of Melville Art Collection, Perth, WA
Prix
2013 Preselected for TELSTRA National Aboriginal & Torres Straight Islander Art Award
2010 Finalist, 27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
2009 Preselected in to the NATSIA awards – Darwin NT
2008 Preselected in the Togart awards – Darwin NT
Œuvres
Susan Wanji Wanji 18-123 120x180cm Jilamara Design
Biographie
2013 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award finalist Susan Wanji Wanji grew up in Maningrida and as a young girl learnt to make bark paintings and intricately woven mats and baskets. She is an exceptional weaver and Tunga (bark basket) craftsperson. Susan Wanji Wanji started working at Munupi Arts & Crafts ( Yikikinni Women’s Centre) in 1990 and has since developed a unique style that has influence from both Tiwi and Arnhem Land cultures. In 1992 Susan Wanji Wanji travelled to Paris representing Munupi Arts & Crafts and assisted with the hanging of the women’s centre exhibition. Susan Wanji Wanji works on linen and arches paper with natural ochres, along with limited edition lino prints and etchings. Her art is represented in many national as well as international collections.
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Merenda Gallery, Fin Art, Fremantle WA Makatingarri (running water)
2009 Karen Brown, Gallery Darwin NT
2007 Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin NT
Group Exhibitions
2018 Nginingawula Awirankiniwaki
Hilton Double Tree Hilton, August 2018
2018 Yoi- Tanz im Mondenschein
ArtKelch Collectors Lounge, Stutgart, Germany
2018 Palaneri- Aboriginal Art Der Tiwi
Artkelch, Freiburg , Germany
2018 One island one side. • Yati Ratuwati Yatuwati • Art Aborigène des Iles TIWI
Aboriginal Signature, Brussels, Belgium
2017 Earth Matters
Form: The Goods Shed; Claremont: WA; 6010; 29 September 17 to 27 February 2018
2017 Yrringinkirri Pwoja
Hilton Double Tree Hilton, August 2017
2017 Kiripapuranjuwi (skilled Hands)
Red Dot Fine Art Gallery; Singapore;February March 2017
2016 Point of difference;Desent to sea
Artitja fine Art at Engine Room.Perth.WA
2016 Ngawila Jilamara Exhibition
Hilton Double Tree, Darwin Nt
2016 Spirutual Materialism
Illena Tounta Art Centre, Athens , Greece
2016 Tiwi Mamirrikuwi Jilamara
Cross Art Project; King Cross, NSW
2015 We are the artists/creators for our paintings
Hilton Double Tree, Darwin NT
2015 Ngawa munupula/ Ngawa Kiripapiranjuwi, new paintings from Munupi Art on the Tiwi Islands Outstation art from Art Centres, Darwin NT
2014 WE ARE TIWI, Munupi Artists from Melville Island
Artitja Fine Art, Fremantle, WA
2014 THE TIWI: Art from Jilamara & Munupi Art Centres
Kluge- Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, Virginia, USA
2013 Nginingawula Munupi Jilamara. Our paintings
Marshall Arts, Hyde Park, SA
2013 ‘Nga-wuja arungwapi We are going forward’
Tiwi Art Network Annual Exhibition, Darwin, NT
2012 ‘Salt of the Earth: Indigenous Art from the Land’
McCulloch & McCulloch @ Salt Contemporary, Queenscliff, Victoria
2012 TIWI: ART/HISTORY/CULTURE book launch
Aboriginal an Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW
2012 ‘Pattern & Palette’
McCullochs @ Whistlewood, Shoreham, Victoria
2012 Tiwi Tradition – Munupi Artists of Melville Island
Artitja Fine Art, Fremantle, WA
2012 ‘Parlini Amintiya Awirankini’
Tiwi Art Network Annual Exhibition, Darwin, NT
2012 ‘Dot to Dot’
Artmob Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2011 International Grammar School Exhibition
Tali Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2011 ‘Nginingawila Kurrujipini (Our Colour)’
Tiwi Art Network, Darwin, NT
2011 ‘Tiwi Island Art’
Aranda Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, VIC
2011 ‘Munupi Artists of Melville Island’
Artitja Fine Art, Fremantle, WA
2011 ‘We Paint the Stories of Our Culture’
Museum of Cultural History,University of Oslo, Norway
2011‘Nina Puruntatameri & Susan Wanji Wanji’
Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW
2011 ‘Masterstroke’
Harvison Gallery, Perth, WA
2011 ‘New Work from the Tiwi Islands’
Art Equity, Sydney, NSW
2010 ‘Munupi Arts’
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2010 ‘Munupi Arts’
Qdos Gallery, Lorne, Victoria
2010 Munupi Medley
Artmob, Hobart, Tasmania
2010 . ‘Kumunupanari – Season of Smoke’
Tiwi Art Network, Darwin, NT
2010 Critic’s Choice (Susan McCulloch’s Selection) Artmob, Hobart, Tasmania
2010 ‘Treading Lightly’
Tali Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2004 Kiripuranji – Contemporary Art from the Tiwi Islands
Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade touring exhibition, worldwide
2003 Tayikuwapi – All Together
Art Mob, Hobart, Tas
1998 Walonia Exhibition
Florence, Italy, Brussels, Belgium
1998 United Nations
Geneva, Switzerland
1996 Munupi Tiwi Exhibition
Hong Kong
1996 National Aboriginal Heritage Exhibition
Parliament House Canberra, ACT
1994 Epama Epam – Everything has meaning
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada
1993 Stories
Kerava Art Museum, Helsinki & Rovanelli Art Museum, Lapland, Finland
1991 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Darwin, NT
Bibliography
2012 TIWI: ART/HISTORY/CULTURE, Jennifer Isaacs, 2012 The Miegunyah Press
2002 (Grand!) Jarrikalani, Scholastic Canada
2000 Artist Workshop Animals by Thumbprint Books, London
1994 Australian Naïve Art by Sandra Warner, Craftmans House
1992 Artlink vol. 12 no. 4 Summer – 93 Pg 36
1992 Vision sur les Arts No 181 Julliet 1992. ISSN: 0291- 9036
2016 Spiritual Materialism; Dimitios Antonitsis; Illeana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, Greece