Willie Weston Jilamara 'Inlet' design for wallpaper, featuring dotted and cross-hatched contemporary Aboriginal artwork by Tiwi First Nations artist Jean Baptiste Apuatimi.
Willie Weston Jilamara 'Inlet' design for wallpaper, featuring dotted and cross-hatched contemporary Aboriginal artwork by Tiwi First Nations artist Jean Baptiste Apuatimi.

Jilamara 'Inlet'

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JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI

Jilamara by Jean Baptiste Apuatimi is from our Tiwi Collection. Jilamara is a Tiwi word that refers to the ochre patterning traditionally painted on the bodies of dancers and on carved poles during Pukumani ceremonies. Jilamara is unique to the art and culture of Tiwi Islanders.

"All my paintings are ceremony, same like this one. We Tiwi paint our bodies with ochre for ceremony. This is our body painting design. This is olden days painting. Long ago in the early days we put yalinga (red ochre), arrikininga (yellow ochre) and tutuyangini (white ochre) on our face and body for Pukumani (funeral) and Kulama (Yam) ceremonies.  The bars going across are the Jilamara (body painting) we put across our stomach and chest. Sometimes we still do this. My husband taught me this style, he used to tell me story about that painting."
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi

Repeat height: 72.66cm / 28.60"
Repeat width: 140cm / 55.11"

NOTE: This design repeats across two 70cm wide panels

Minimum order: 5 metres (or 2-5 metres with small order fee of $75)

Lead time: 2-4 weeks

JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI

Jilamara by Jean Baptiste Apuatimi is from our Tiwi Collection. Jilamara is a Tiwi word that refers to the ochre patterning traditionally painted on the bodies of dancers and on carved poles during Pukumani ceremonies. Jilamara is unique to the art and culture of Tiwi Islanders.

"All my paintings are ceremony, same like this one. We Tiwi paint our bodies with ochre for ceremony. This is our body painting design. This is olden days painting. Long ago in the early days we put yalinga (red ochre), arrikininga (yellow ochre) and tutuyangini (white ochre) on our face and body for Pukumani (funeral) and Kulama (Yam) ceremonies.  The bars going across are the Jilamara (body painting) we put across our stomach and chest. Sometimes we still do this. My husband taught me this style, he used to tell me story about that painting."
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi

Repeat height: 72.66cm / 28.60"
Repeat width: 140cm / 55.11"

NOTE: This design repeats across two 70cm wide panels

Minimum order: 5 metres (or 2-5 metres with small order fee of $75)

Lead time: 2-4 weeks

Specifications

  • Composition: Alpha cellulose fibres
    Finished width: 70cm / 27.55”
    Width with bleeds: 74cm / 29.13”
    (includes 2cm / 0.78” bleeds along left and right edges)
    Weight: 180gsm
    Maximum roll length: 46m / 50 yards

    Applications
    Residential

    Performance
    Fire Ratings:
    -      AS-5637.1: Group 1 (Australia)
    -       ASTM E84-23: Class B (USA)
    -       EN 13501-1:C-d1,do (Europe)

    Environmental
    Printed in Australia using eco-solvent inks
    PVC free

  • Residential Wallpaper Specifications

    Installation Guide


Black and white portrait of an Indigenous woman with a patterned painted background.
Pukumani poles sitting on a cliff top at sunset. They are carved and painted wooden mortuary poles created by the Tiwi people of Bathurst and Melville Islands.

Pukumani poles. Photo: Tiwi Design.

About Jean Baptiste Apuatimi


Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property (ICIP)
This design is based on an original artwork by Jean Baptiste Apuatimi. It may embody traditional knowledge of the artist’s community. Through best practice legal agreements, Willie Weston is authorised to adapt and reproduce this artwork on our fabrics, wallpapers and other interior products. Dealing with any part of the design for any purpose that has not been authorised by the artist is a serious breach of customary laws of First Nations communities and may also breach the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).