Alcheringa Gallery
665 Fort Street
Victoria, BC, Canada
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 Kipa Gaindimi
Kambot Village, Keram River, Lower Sepik,
Kipa Gaindimi is a master carver originally from Angriman Village on the Mid Sepik presently living in Kambot Village.
He is particularly renowned for his carvings on bark. He also carves very fine model canoes and the traditional ancestral figures from Kambot village featuring mothers and children. His work is found in international collections in Australia, Canada and the United States.
Collections:
William Woods University, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Storyboard of heroic proportions: twelve feet x six feet, permanent installation in the performing arts centre.
Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, unique circular storyboard acquired in 2006.
Exhibitions:
Ancestral Spirits, The Ceremonial Art of Papua New Guinea. 1989, Gallery of Tribal Art, Vancouver, B.C. Canada.
Saltwater Crocodile,Memory and Myth: 1989, Fran Willis Gallery,Victoria, B.C.
Pieces From Paradise :1992, cohosted by Fran Willis Gallery/ Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
Ceremony and Passage: 1996, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
Tribal Adornments: 2004, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
Rhythms of the Garamut: 2006, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
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