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warmunart.com.au Warmun Art is here to celebrate and encourage the expression of Gija culture through the arts, and to support the continued development of innovative contemporary art by both established and emerging Warmun artists. We strive to facilitate this through developing and maintaining a commercially viable arts enterprise, which provides a diverse range of cultural and economic opportunities for both individuals and the community as a whole. Background Art: Jimbirla Ngarrangkarni (Spearhead Dreaming), Lena Nyadbi, 2010. Cover Art: Yunnur (Spring Creek), Patrick Mung Mung, 2010. warmunart.com.au supported by: Everything is rolling in my mind, I can’t stop painting, I like to do it and bring it out through my heart, with the stories. - Kathy Ramsey, Warmun artist and finalist for the John Fries award, 2017 Background Image: Kathy on country with one of her boards. warmunart.com.au Warmun Art Centre (WAC) is a non-profit Established in 1998, Warmun Art Centre quickly Aboriginal Corporation situated in Warmun achieved local and international recognition, Aboriginal Community (previously Turkey Creek), thanks to the leadership and guidance of off the Great Northern Highway, some 200km successful predecessors including the late artists: south of Kununurra. It is a 100% Gija-owned and Rover Thomas, Queenie McKenzie, George Mung controlled community enterprise, specialising in Mung and Paddy Jaminji. The distinctive Warmun fine aboriginal art featuring locally sourced ochre. style of art continues to inspire a new generation The income made from sales of Warmun artworks of Warmun artists who represent Gija art and is split between artists and the centre, with the culture with bold character and exciting diversity. centre’s proceeds reinvested in operational needs that serve the artists and community. Halls Warmun Art Centre Creek 1.6 km from Warmun Roadhouse EK RE Y C E Y W R K U H T N R E H T R O N T A E R G VISITORS WELCOME Opening hours: Ph. 08 9168 7496 Register on arrival 9–4 Weekdays www.warmunart.com.au Open weekends and public holidays by prior Kununurra Warmun Roadhouse appointment only. warmunart.com.au Our Artists* *There are over 70 artists engaged with Warmun Art Centre in FY 2017. Patrick Mung Mung Betty Carrington Mabel Juli Nancy Nodea Wirringgoon Lindsay Malay Mary Thomas Kathy Ramsey Rusty Peters Shirley Drill Phyllis Thomas Tommy Carroll Shirley Purdie & Gordon Barney Booljoonngali Photography by Thom Rigney warmunart.com.au Our Staff The Art Centre is primarily and predominantly Gabriel Nodea Ralph Juli a Gija workforce, with majority of the staff members and artists identifying as Gija. There are over 70 artists actively involved with the centre, governed by a board of 11 directors, who lead the organisation, notably shaping its culture and values. Background Art: Garnkiny Ngarrangkarni, Mabel Juli Wirringgoon, 2010. Marika Riley April Nulgit Lindsay Malay warmunart.com.au Warmun Art Timeline 1985 26 October 1998 1999 – 2001 March 2011 2011 2011 Warmun artwork being Warmun Art Centre is Sales grew from $0 Warmun declared a Immediately after the WAC and the Centre produced and distributed officially registered as (1998) to $650,000 Natural Disaster Zone flood, WAC artists for Cultural Materials through Waringarri Arts a business in Warmun in 2001. when Turkey Creek continue to rebuild the Conservation (CCMC) Centre in Kununurra. Community. burst its banks and business, and paint at the University of floods destroyed the through assistance Melbourne forge an community, causing from Warringari Arts in ongoing partnership; 2000 July 2001 21 June 2005 emergency evacuation. Kununurra. restoring artworks and WAC won the ‘Arts and All that big rain from top WAC separately Many paintings destroyed, building a Gija ‘two- Media’ category of the side, a painting by Rover incorporated as damaged beyond repair way’ learning program WA Indigenous Business Thomas sold by Sotheby’s Warmun Art Aboriginal and / or missing. for university students Award. to the National Gallery Corporation under and Warmun community of Australia for a record the Commonwealth members. $786,500¹. Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act 1976. 2013 2013 2014 The Musée du Quai Branly Lena Nyadbi wins the Lena Nyadbi wins the re-engages Lena Nyadbi East Kimberley Aboriginal West Australian of the June 2006 2007 2007 - 2008 by commissioning her Achievement Award for year – Aboriginal Award. Musée Opening of the Sales exceed $1 million New $1.65 million Dayiwul Ngarranggarni ‘Outstanding contribution du Quai Branly in Paris, for the first time in gallery premises built (Barramundi Dreaming) towards Art & Culture.’ featuring commissioned Warmun Art history. from a combination of artwork on the roof of artwork by Warmun artist Federal and State the museum, which is Lena Nyadbi, gaining local funding, and WAC’s spectacularly visible from and international media savings. the atop the Eiffel Tower. coverage for the Art Centre and artist. 2015 2016 2017 Warmun Art Centre has Jirrawun Wirnan takes Warmun Art 2018 2008 2010 2010 an unprecedented four place at Warmun Art Business Plan takes shape. WAC won the ‘Aboriginal Jirrawun Arts, an Warmun artist Peggy finalists for the National Centre; an official handover There are over 70 artists Business of the Year’ as Aboriginal art company Patrick is awarded a Aboriginal and Torres ceremony from Jirrawun actively involved with the part of the East Kimberley in Wyndham, closed its Member of the Order Strait Islander Art Award Arts to Warmun Art. centre, with a workforce Aboriginal Achievement doors; causing many of of Australia (AM) for (NATSIAA 2015) with of 7 (including 5 Aboriginal Awards. its well-known Gija artists her contributions to artworks by Mabel Juli, staff). WAC is currently and members to paint culture and for bringing Phyllis Thomas, Rammey governed by a board of for Warmun Art Centre, Indigenous and non- Ramsey and Rusty Peters 11 directors. adding to its high profile. Indigenous Australians being shortlisted. together. 1. S. McCulloch, Contemporary Aboriginal Art: A guide to the rebirth of an ancient culture, revised edition 2001. Background Art: Kangaroo Dreaming by Churchill Cann, 2010. warmunart.com.au Events, Exhibitions and Awards: Our Products & Services The Art Centre maintains a robust schedule of annual events, exhibitions and awards. Arts workers support artists in the promotion of their artwork Products: to local, international, state and commercial institutions, working to achieve Warmun Art Centre specialises in artwork created from locally sourced ochre maximum exposure and sales. Artists are also supported and encouraged to applied onto high quality canvas and Belgian linen. The application of ochre on submit their work to local and national awards, and arts-workers assist with the pre-stretched boards is the main product that local artists have been producing commissioning of artworks for every scenario. skillfully for over twenty years. Ochre artwork for sale is complemented by other products to offer a diverse range including: A Media Lab The lab serves to sustain Gija language and culture through the recording and ochre and natural pigments on linen sculptural objects and sharing of traditional knowledge and participation from community members of ochre and natural pigmnets on canvas artefacts all ages. The media lab is currently funded by Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal fine art prints print publications Media (PAKAM), and works in tandem with Warmun Art Centre. acrylic on linen and canvas stationery carvings other merchandise The Joonba program: Joonba is is a specific form of performance driven by narrative. These cycles of song and dance incorporate painting, theatre, story and history. A socially Services: significant form of entertainment, they are learned from childhood and WAC is a non-profit organisation that re-invests its revenue into the practiced throughout life. They are intrinsic to Aboriginal art and cultural organisation, responding to programmatic and operational needs of its practice across the north of Western Australia including within the local Gija members. The basis for the foundation of the community owned and controlled context of Warmun. The Art Centre sustains this important cultural practice Gija art centre included the need for supporting, maintaining and promoting by appointing a Joonba coordinator to oversee the annual program of events Gija art, culture and language. Both past and current services / program areas and activities that help revive and maintain Gija Joonba, which encompasses all respond to those foundational needs, and their operations are conditional to three key areas of art, language and culture. available funding and grants. Warmun Art Centre’s main service areas include: Bush trips Core operations These are important for facilitating connection to country, and recognition of WAC supports its artists in every capacity; from supplying all art equipment the important links between cultural activity and being on country. Warmun Art and offering them a working studio space, to hosting weekly artist meetings Cente is actively involved in Bush trips that occur throughout the dry season, catered with giant mugs of Nalaja (tea) and meals ranging from fresh bush including through partnerships with Melbourne University that foregrounds kangaroo from to local store-bought treats. Artists are welcome to use the ‘two-way’ learning and promotes reconciliation. Bush trips have multiple studio space throughout the week, and their
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