Selected Works, September 5 - 25, 2020

Selected works from By the Strength of Their Skin, by the highly regarded Aboriginal women artists Mabel Juli and Regina Pilawuk Wilson, held in the Dové Gallery September 5 - 25, 2020.

Mabel Juli was born in the early 1930s at Five Mile, near Moola Boola Station, south of Warmun, Western Australia. Following the end of the station era in the East Kimberley, Mabel settled in Warmun where she began painting in the 1980s under the encouragement of the senior artist, Queenie McKenzie. Mabel’s paintings articulate complex Ngarranggarni (Dreaming) stories and document early colonial encounters from her country Darrajayin, which is covered largely by Springvale Station today. Mabel’s recognition as one of Australia’s most revered painters has emerged from her consistent commitment to her art practice and her remarkable storytelling.

Regina Pilawuk Wilson was born in 1948 in the Daly River region of the Northern Territory. She is a painter, a master weaver, and the Cultural Director of Durrmu Arts Aboriginal Corporation. Together with her husband, Harold Wilson, Regina founded the Peppimenarti (meaning ‘large rock’) Community as a permanent settlement for the Ngan’gikurrungurr people in the Daly River region, south west of Darwin, Northern Territory, in 1973. The location of the community is an important Dreaming site for the Ngan’gikurrungurr language group, situated amid wetlands and floodplains at the center of the Daly River Aboriginal Reserve.

To inquire about available works, contact kristen@secondstreetgallery.org.