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 Bede Tungutalum
Tiwi Language Group
Nguiu, Bathurst Island,
Aboriginal Artist, Bede Tungutalum first learned designing and printing in school on Bathurst Island. In 1970, after finishing school he began a screen printing business called Tiwi Designs with several other young Tiwi partners. Tiwi Designs continues to grow, producing mainly screen printed designs on fabric and is one of the most successful Aboriginal Art enterprises.
Bede draws on his Tiwi artistic traditions to produce his prints:It is good to show the other Australians that we can produce beautiful works of art, using white man's techniques but doing Aboriginal way of art.
What I do at Tiwi Designs is printing and designing. I also do carving which I enjoy most. Now I’m on to canvas painting. I put a lot of work into this. It’s good to see that other young Tiwi men are doing carving and canvas painting and also printing at Tiwi Designs. I hope that Tiwi designs will keep it up in the future, the good work of art.
Collections
Artbank, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Campbelltown City Art Gallery.v Central Collection, Australian National University, Canberra
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Museum of Victoria, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
University of Queensland, Anthropology Museum, St Lucia
EXHIBITIONS
Group Exhibitions
1978 The Territorian Craft Acquisition Award, Crafts Association, NT
1984 The First National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1984 Aboriginal Art, an Exhibition Presented by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra
1985 The Second National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1986 The Third National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1987 Australian Aboriginal Views in Print and Poster, Print Council of Australia, travelling exhibition
1987 The Fourth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1988 Australian Aboriginal Graphics, from the Collection of the Flinders University Art Museum
1988 The Inspired Dream, Life as art in Aboriginal Australia, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and touring internationally
1989 On the edge - five contemporary Aboriginal artists, AGWA, Perth
1989 Prints by Seven Australian Aboriginal Artists, international touring exhibition, through Print Council and Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade
1989 Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1989 The Sixth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1990 Munupi Dreaming, Shades of Ochre, Darwin
1990 The Seventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1990 Balance 1990: Views, Visions, Influences, QAG, Brisbane
1992 Working in the Round, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
1992/3 New Tracks Old Land: An Exhibition of Contemporary Prints from Aboriginal Australia, touring USA and Australia
1993 Ten years of acquisitions, from ANU collection, Drill Hall Gallery ACT
1993 The Tenth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1994 Malu Urul, National Maritime Museum, Sydney
1994 The Eleventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1995 The Twelfth National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Bibliography
1989 Nothing to Celebrate?, Australian Aboriginal Political Art and the Bicentennial, exhib. cat., Flinders University Art Museum (C)
Butler, R., 1986, From dreamtime to machine time, Imprint 21(3-4), 7 (C)
Caruana, W., 1987, Australian Aboriginal Art, a Souvenir Book of Aboriginal Art in the Australian National Gallery, Australian National Gallery, Parkes, Australian Capital Territory (C)
Caruana, W., 1993, Aboriginal Art, Thames and Hudson, London (C)
Cochrane, G., 1992, The Crafts Movement in Australia: a History, New South Wales University Press, Kensington, New South Wales (C)
O’Ferrall, M., 1989, On the Edge - Five Contemporary Aboriginal Artists, exhib. cat., Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Perkins H. Beyond the Year of Indigenous Peoples, in Art and Australia 1993 Vol 31 No 1 p 98-101
Samuels, J and C. Watson, 1987, Australian Aboriginal views in print and poster, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne
Smith, H., 1990, Tiwi, the life and art of Australia’s Tiwi people, Angus & Robertson, Australia
Watson, C., 1990, The Bicentenary and beyond: recent developments in Aboriginal printmaking, Special Double Issue Artlink 10(1&2), 70-73 (C)
West, M.K.C., (ed.), 1988, The Inspired Dream, Life as art in Aboriginal Australia, exhib. cat., Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Department of the Chief Minister, Northern Territory of Australia, 1983, Tiwi Design in Export Drive, Digest of Australia’s Northern Territory, Special Self Government Issue, 1 July, 22-25 (C)
1990, Munupi Dreaming, exhib. cat., Shades of Ochre Gallery, Darwin (C)
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