Name

Christine, Wilson

Culture

Aboriginal Australian

Gender

Female

Birth date

active by 1998

Birth place

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Occupations

Printmaker

Summary

Worked: Australia (NT). Screenprints

NGA IRN

13688

Context

Australia

Biography

Christine Wilson

Since 1993 Aboriginal artist Christine Wilson’s work has been exhibited in group shows in Melbourne, Adelaide, Darwin and Chicago, USA.

Her work depicts the body designs used in the Pukamani ceremony, the traditional Tiwi burial ceremony, one of the cornerstones of the Tiwi’s traditional belief.

Wilson’s art is also closely linked to stories of Purrukuparli, the Tiwi mythological ancestor and is characterised by a geometric structure of lines and dots with every line and marking having an important meaning. These geometric patterns, common in all Tiwi art, often depict sites of stories of mythological significance involving ancestors who were changed into animals or birds. Each Tiwi artist has their own individual interpretation of the designs.

Her work is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Sydney.

Biography courtesy of The Australian Art Print Network, 2001.
© Australianprints

Sub-region

Bathurst & Melvile Islands

Specific location

Milikapiti