Regina Pilawuk Wilson: Sydney Contemporary 2024

Please join us at Sydney Contemporary 2024 for the debut of four extraordinary new paintings from Australia’s most senior female contemporary First Nations painter, Regina Pilawuk Wilson. Wilson is a senior Ngan’gikurrungurr artist, NATSIAA winner and cultural director of Durrmu Arts Aboriginal Corporation.

A master weaver, award-winning painter and living legend whose work is acclaimed and collected globally, Wilson’s newest paintings thread together two distinct strands of her practice, linking the spellbinding line work that pulses through her colour-soaked paintings with a weaving tradition spanning generations.

Wilson’s work is in the permanent collections of the British Museum, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Gallery of Modern Art. She has exhibited at LACMA in Los Angeles, The Moscow Biennale, the National Museum of Arts in Washington D.C. and numerous other important public and private institutions worldwide.

“My grandfather, before European contact, used to make fish traps to put in the rivers and billabongs to catch fish, turtles and prawns,” says Wilson. “My sister said for me to put the design onto the canvas so I can tell my story about what our grandfather used to do and the syaw and pupunyi. Now the story is owned by me through painting and weaving.”

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