Deme Ngayi Napa

While Regina Pilawuk Wilson’s monumental work Wupun (sun mat) remains on view at the Art Gallery of New South Wales as a spectacular centrepiece of this year’s Sulman Prize, we are thrilled to announce that the senior Ngan’gikurrungurr artist and cultural leader has now completed a new collection of equally epic, colour-soaked canvases that will soon be on view in her next major solo show at Michael Reid Sydney.

Works from Wilson’s forthcoming exhibition have now arrived at our Eora/Sydney gallery, where they can be previewed in person or digitally by request. Please sign up to be the first to receive exclusive previews and priority access to Wilson’s extraordinary new paintings before her show’s official opening in early July.

Born in 1948 near Daly River, Northern Territory, Wilson is the cultural director of Durrmu Arts Aboriginal Corporation and co-founder of the Peppimenarti community. Situated amid wetlands and floodplains at the centre of the Daly River Aboriginal Reserve, Peppimenarti is an important site for Ngan’gikurrungurr people and continues to inform Wilson’s art and weaving practices.

Realised on a truly spectacular scale, Wilson’s Sulman piece depicts wupun (sun mat), which are traditionally woven with yerrgi (pandanus) and merrepen (sand palm) for decorative use by the women of Peppimenarti.

Since winning the highest honour at the 2003 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Wilson has been a fixture on the contemporary art map. Her rhythmic, intricately detailed works are beloved globally and held in the collections of the British Museum, AGNSW, the NGV and QAGOMA. She has exhibited at LACMA in Los Angeles, the Moscow Biennale, the National Museum of the Arts in Washington, D.C. and numerous other important institutions across the globe.

For first access to works from the artist’s upcoming show, please email dean@michaelreid.com.au