Francesca Puruntatameri
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About the Artist
Artwork is accompanied by Munupi Artists Certificate of Authenticity/Provenance
Born: 1965
Language: Tiwi
Mother’s Country: Warriyuwu, Bathurst Island, NT
Father’s Country: Goose Creek, Melville Island, NT
Dreaming: Nyarringari – Magpie Goose
Francesca Puruntatameri was born in 1965 on Bathurst Island. She attended secondary school at St Johns College in Darwin. After finishing year 11 she returned to her hometown of Pirlangimpi. Francesca took various jobs, working in the bank and library and studied book keeping at the Darwin Community College. She then took some time for parenting her daughter.
Francesca worked for a short time at Munupi Arts in 1993 but left to work at the bakery for a period of 6 months. She returned to Munupi Arts & Crafts and made an impression with her decorative canvas paintings and gouaches on paper.
She has also completed printmaking workshops and assists with fabric screen-printing. Francesca has completed her Certificate II in Arts and Crafts with Batchelor College and served as President of Munupi Arts from 2009 - 2013.
Francesca has participated in many group exhibitions with Munupi Arts and in 2025 had her first solo show at Niagara Galleries in Melbourne.
Selected Collections
• The Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway
• Janet Holmes A Court Collection, Perth, WA
• Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Awards
• 1998 National Aboriginal Heritage Art Award, Canberra, ACT
Selected Exhibitions
• 2025 Yirrinkiripwaja Jilamara (Ceremonial Body Paint), Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
• 2022 Ngininguwula Kurrujipuni Our Own Tiwi Ochre Colours, Doubletree By Hilton Hotel, Darwin, NT
• 2022 Line In Parrallel- Artitja Fine Art Gallery, South Fremantle, WA
• 2021 Tiwi Papers - Tarnanthi Festival 2021; Art Gallery of South Australia
• 2021 Yirrinkirripwoja Jilamara - Double Tree Hilton, Darwin, NT
• 2020 Tiwi Islands to Arnhemland Munupi Maningrinda - Artitja Fine Art Gallery, South Fremantle, WA
• 2020 Yalininga, Ngaripantingija, Ngirramini - Aboriginal Signature, Estrangin Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgique
• 2018 Nginingawula Awirankiniwaki - Double Tree Hilton, Darwin, NT
• 2017 Yrringinkirri Pwoja - Double Tree Hilton, Darwin, NT
• 2016 Point of difference - Desert to Sea - Artitja F0ne Art at Engine Room, Perth, WA
• 2014 We Are Tiwi – Munupi Artists from Melville Island – Artitja Fina Art, Fremantle, WA
• 2014 The Tiwi: Art from Jilamara & Munupi Art Centres – Kluge, Ruhr Aboriginal Art Collection, Virginia, USA
• 2013 Tayikuwapi: All Together - Mossenson Galleries, Perth, WA
• 2013 'Tiwi Shima' - Northern Editions, Darwin, NT
• 2013 'Nga-wuja arungwapi We are going forward' - Tiwi Art Network Annual Exhibition, Darwin, NT
• 2012 'Parlini Amintiya Awirankini' - Tiwi Art Network Annual Exhibition, Darwin, NT
• 2012 Tiwi Tradition — Munupi Artists of Melville Island, Artitja Fine Art, Fremantle, WA
• 2012 Tiwi Book Launch - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Caufield North, Melbourne, VIC
• 2011 'Emma's Choice' - Artmob Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
• 2011 'Tiwi Island Art' - Aranda Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, VIC
• 2011 'Nginingawila Kurrujipini (Our Colour)' - Tiwi Art Network, Darwin, NT
• 2011 'We Paint the Stories of Our Culture' - Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway
• 2011 'Tiwi Island Art' - Aranda Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, VIC
• 2011 'Munupi Artists of Melville Island' - Artitja Fine Art, Fremantle, WA
• 2011 'Tiwi Temptations' - Artmob, Hobart, Tasmania
• 2011 'Tiwi Temptations' - Artmob, Hobart, Tasmania
• 2011 'Munupi Artists of Melville Island' - Artitja Fine Art, Fremantle, WA
• 2010 Aramini - National Art School Gallery, Sydney, NSW
• 2010 Munupi Medley - Artmob, Hobart, Tasmania
• 2010 'Munupi Arts' - Qdos Gallery, Lorne, Victoria
• 2010 'A 9x12" Coo-ee Christmas' - Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney, NSW
• 2010 'Out of the Earth' - Artmob Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
• 2010 'Kumunupanari — Season of Smoke' - Tiwi Art Network, Darwin, NT
• 2010 Mukumuwu - To Be Together - Darwin, NT
• 2009 Ochre Imprints - Tandanya National Aboriginal culture Institute. Adelaide. SA
• 2006 Yilonjinga, Kirijipuni, Arrikirninga - Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA
• 2006 Star Arts - Ambrose Consulting, Darwin, NT
• 2005 Cape Naturalise Vinyard - Christmas Exhibition, Perth WA
• 2005 Ngini Ngawula Ngiramini Amitiya Murakupuni - Northern Editions Gallery, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT
• 2004 Two Decades of Munupi Prints - KickArts, Cairns, Qld
• 2003 Yirri Kirri Pwaja: Making Fine Lines - Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
• 2003 Tokwapi Ngirramini - On shore Art Gallery, Barwon Heads, VIC
• 2003 Muwiyati Mantawi: Sharing With My Friends - Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT
• 2001 Tracking Kultja Festival - Australian Museum, Canberra, ACT
• 1998 18th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award - MAGNT, Darwin, NT
• 1998 United Nations - Geneva, Switzerland
• 1996 National Aboriginal Heritage Exhibition - Parliament House Canberra, ACT
• 1996 Tiwi Exhibition - Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
• 1996 Munupi Tiwi Exhibition - Hong Kong
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