From the delicate lines of Syaw (Fish Net) to the expressive motifs of Sugarbag Dreaming, each design celebrates the culture and traditions of the artists and the communities they come from. With eight designs across 21 colourways, this collection enables you to incorporate First Nations design into your space and meet your acoustic requirements.
Willie Weston is a profit-for-purpose business working in partnership with First Nations artists to support the integration of contemporary First Nations design into the built environment.
Willie Weston is a member of the Indigenous Art Code, an organisation that works to preserve and promote ethical trade in First Nations art. Autex Acoustics is proud to collaborate with Willie Weston to provide income to artists and communities across Australia.
Born and educated at the Daly River Mission, Kathleen Korda now lives at Peppimenarti (NT) where her mother and grandmother taught her to weave baskets, string bags and fish nets. She received a Highly Commended Award in the Togart Art Awards in 2013. Durrmu (KK) represents traditional body painting designs applied to male and female faces and torsos for ceremonial dance. The dots are referred to as durrmu – which also means painting.
Annunciata Nunuk Wilson of Peppimenarti (NT) was born c. 1970, the eldest daughter of the esteemed artist Regina Pilawuk Wilson. Annunciata paints durrmu (dot body painting) and has recently been experimenting with sun mat, basket stitch and merrepen leaf designs. Syaw (Fish Net) evokes nets traditionally woven with pinbin (bush vine) by the women and men of Peppimenarti to capture fish and crayfish from fresh water creeks and rivers.
Born in 1951 near Amaroo Station, Northern Territory, Rosie Ngwarraye Ross depicts the bush medicine plants and wild flowers from around her country near Ampilatwatja. She has a bold expressive style and often omits the sky from her compositions, combining both aerial and frontal views. Sugarbag is a name used for both the honey made by the native bees and also for the sweet nectar that comes from the big yellow flowers of the ‘tarrkarr’ trees.
Tiwi artist Jean Baptiste Apuatimi (1940-2013) is internationally acclaimed as a painter, carver and printmaker. Her work is held in public and private collections all over the world, including the British Museum (UK), Seattle Museum of Art (USA) and National Museum of Women in the Arts (USA). 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 Tiwi Islanders.
Jean Ngwarraye Long was born in 1963 and has lived in Ampilatwatja (NT) all her life. She has exhibited at ArtKelch, Germany (2015), Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne (2018), Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane (2018), and was also a finalist in the 40th Alice Art Prize, Alice Springs, (2018). Native Seeds represents the process of harvesting edible seeds from trees in the Ampilatwatja region. The seeds are used to create a dough, similar to damper which is cooked on hot coals.
Osmond Kantilla (b. 1966) is a master screen printer from the Tiwi Islands. His country is Wurruranku and his skin group is Marntimapila (Stone). His work is held in numerous collections, including the National Museum of Australia, the Powerhouse Museum and the Art Gallery of South Australia. Pandanus represents the pointy leaves of the pandanus plant. Osmond Kantilla created this design in memory of his father.
Susan Marawarr (b. 1967) is a printmaker, sculptor, weaver and bark painter from Maningrida (NT). She has exhibited at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne (2011), and Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane (2018). Her work is in the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Gallery of Australia. Wak Wak features rarrk (cross-hatching) and refers to the crow totem ancestor, Djimarr. Today Djimarr exists as a submerged rock at the bottom of Kurrurldul Creek, south of Maningrida.
Lee-Anne Williams, from Fitzroy Crossing (WA), is of the Bunuba and Wangkatjunka lanuage groups. She began her career painting boab nuts, moving onto screen and lino printing on textiles before becoming a founding member of the 2017 Design Within Country fashion project. Water Levels references the marks that remain on the rocks of the Fitzroy River, after flood water levels rise and fall.
Willie Weston’s ambition is to celebrate the diverse artistic output of First Nations artists and to support the integration of their work into the built environment.
Willie Weston works with thirteen First Nations artists (or their estates) who are paid for each metre of design produced and are provided a share of net profits each year. In this way they contribute to viable livelihoods in First Nations communities.
This collaboration with Autex Acoustics brings First Nations art to Australia’s commercial interiors. Designs are printed in high quality and overlaid on Autex acoustic panels, creating a product that celebrates Australian culture and contributes to improved internal ambience.
Please note this is a made to order product with a 3-4 week lead time.
| Size | 2400 x 1200mm, 2700 x 1200mm |
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| Option | 12mm Cube Panel, 24mm Cube Panel, 25mm Quietspace Panel |
| Colour | Durrmu (KK) 'Berry', Durrmu (KK) 'Obsidian', Durrmu (KK) 'Pippi', Durrmu (KK) 'Terra', Jilmara 'Inlet', Jilmara 'Sand', Jilmara 'Stone', Native Seeds 'Cassia', Native Seeds 'Mineral', Native Seeds 'Olive', Native Seeds 'Midnight', Pandanus 'Stone', Pandanus 'Eucalypt', Sugarbag Dreaming 'Ghost Gum", Sugarbag Dreaming 'Saltbush', Syaw (Fish Net) 'Sea Spray', Syaw (Fish Net) 'Woollybutt', Water Levels 'Moss', Water Levels 'Marine', Wak Wak 'Mud Flats', Wak Wak 'Storm' |
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