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1/1,40.5x28cm [image],purchased through theCDU Foundation for the CDU ArtCollection,2011-CDU2063.  \nAbove:Estelle Munkanome,Untitled[Portrait of Lorna Kantilla]2009,natural ochres on Arches paper,37.5x 28.5cm [image &paper],purchasedthrough the CDU Foundation forthe CDU Art Collection,2009-CDU1645.  \nBelow:Lorna KantillaUntitled [mudmussels and arrows]1998,naturalochres on Arches paper,47x66cm[image],CDU Art Collection-CDU1361,acquired 2007.  \nI don't think there are any secrets in art-I think everything should beshared and,if there are any secrets,it's high time to shout them from theroof-tops.I'm referring,of course,to all methods of technique and newdiscoveries ...Ifeel very strongly that everything apainter learns oughtto be shared with others.After all,the only appreciation worth havingis that of one's fellow artists-ones fellow practitioners-and since theappreciation is theirs(and a help to one if they do give it generously)thenthey ought to be given anything one has got in return.  \n[He]painted,he said,for company.2  \nLocated at Wurrumiyanga(formerly Nguiu,meaning this place)onBathurst Island,Ngaruwanajirri was founded in August 1994 as an art-focused skills development and supported employment program³for Tiwiadults with special needs.Its overarching philosophy and defining spirit asan artistic cooperative are encapsulated in its Tiwi name,translated intoEnglish as helping one another.The program's distinctive logo was designedin the late 1990s by Samson Poantumilui.It depicts two hands,gentlyclasped as one undulating link within an encircled tablet of Tiwi jilamara(designs).As a symbolic gesture and revealing graphic emblem,it standsfor a collective of creative individuals whose work is intimately related to,and nurtured by,both the environment and the building within whichNgaruwanajirri has quietly flourished for 17 years:The Keeping House.  \nThe Keeping House is more than a place to make art:it is a shared homefor artists,where no one is an 'outsider.It is also an adult learning centrefostering skill,innovation and imagination as a social practice.In equalmeasure,individuality,experimentation and freedom of expression-rather than market forces-govern its daily operations.The veryfabric of the building,most notably its painted panel ceiling,inspirescontemplation.At Ngaruwanajirri,artists look up as well as to the surfaceof their chosen medium:art is a continuous activity,with no separationbetween the past and the present.  \nThe history of The Keeping House unfolds as a series of complex exchangesand evolving ideas embracing collections,museums,missionaries,government officials,art centres and art advisers,as well as traditionalowners and artists.An idea for a'material culture museum³was firstconceived in the late 1950s by Father John Fallon,a Catholic priest onBathurst Island for many years and Superintendent at Nguiu between1959-60 and 1965-71.Fallon's aim had been to preserve and display whatwere at the time regarded as the last objects of their kind and quality,produced for either ceremony or sale,by an older generation of Tiwi.Throughout the 1960s,he collected and commissioned spears,ceremonialadornments,sculptures,woven items and other objects of'the highestquality,intended for display in the proposed museum.He sought advicefrom the then Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia,John Bailey,and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory's rock artspecialist,George Chaloupka,as to the design and construction of abuilding.A structure resembling a Tiwi bark shelter,with a curved,highpitched roof,was favoured but never eventuated during his time.5  \nDuring the 1970s,the establishment of Aboriginal owned and managedcultural keeping places'gained currency,both as Government policy andin terms of funding priorities,in line with the land rights movement andprinciples of self-determinat","cbCainLg4yQgmisg","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainLg4yQgmisg","pdf",1269552,"English","# Ngaruwanajirri: 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