KWM has developed a relationship with a range of arts centres via the Adopt a Lawyer Project run by Arts Law Centre of Australia. This enables arts centres to have a direct line to a firm to seek support and has evolved into broader social impact including KWM’s Artists in Residence program, purchasing of art and licensing art, cultural engagement and speaking opportunities.
ARTS LAW CENTRE OF AUSTRALIA
Arts Law is Australia’s independent national community legal centre for the arts, a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. We provide free or low cost specialised legal advice, education and resources to Australian artists and arts organisations across all art forms, on a wide range of arts related legal and business matters. Arts Law’s Artists in the Black program delivers targeted services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists nationally.
BULA’BULA ARTS
Ramingining, Northern Territory
Bula’Bula arts centre is an iconic tropical elevation style building in the heart of the Ramingining community in Central Arnhem Land. Bula’Bula Arts supports 150 artist members from Ramingining and its surrounding outstations. From fibre art to paintings depicting traditional stories, Bula’bula Arts’ core objective is to preserve and foster Yolnu culture. Local artists coined the name Bula’Bula meaning the voice/tongue of Gandayala (red kangaroo) Ramingining’s Creation Being. The name represents the message in the song cycle of the red kangaroo’s journey from the Roper River to the Ramingining region. KWM was proudly ‘adopted’ by Bula’bula Arts in 2021.
ERUB ARTS
Erub, Torres Strait
Erub Arts is an Indigenous art centre in the Eastern Torres Strait. Erub Arts works with community to maintain a strong Erubian identity, by promoting culture in a contemporary way through art. Internationally recognised for their woven ghost net works, prints, and ceramic sculptures, the centre’s artists draw their inspiration from the surrounding ocean and reef. KWM was proudly ‘adopted’ by Erub Arts in 2021.
JILAMARA ARTS & CRAFTS ASSOCIATION
Milikapiti, Northern Territory
Established in 1989, Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association is owned and governed by artists from the community of Milikapiti on the Tiwi Islands. Comprised of two main islands Bathurst and Melville, the Tiwis are north of Darwin and have been home to Tiwi people since parlingarri (a long time ago). The Milikapiti community is on the north coast of Melville overlooking the Arafura Sea. It is a small community that celebrates family, culture and art-making. The term Jilamara describes "design" based on ceremonial ochre markings on the body. Reimagining these styles at the art centre has fostered a dynamic creative field for maintaining Tiwi knowledge, as well as sharing and celebrating contemporary living culture. These performative foundations have directed the organisation’s course for decades, from its origins in translating jilamara design to screen-printed garments as an adult education centre in the 1980s to producing major exhibition outcomes as an indigenous governed art centre in more recent decades. KWM was proudly ‘adopted’ by Jilamara Arts in 2018.
MOA ARTS
Moa Island, Torres Strait
Moa Arts is an Indigenous owned and operated Art Centre on Mua Island in the western cluster of Zenadth Kes in the Torres Strait. Through their artwork Mualgal traditions and Zenadth Kes arts and culture remain strong for everyone. Moa Arts’ reputation is built on the calibre of its limited-edition lino prints and etchings, works on paper, woven baskets, woven bags and traditional island style jewellery. Everything is made on Moa Island and the proceeds from sales go back directly to the artists and developing creative programs to support the community. KWM was proudly ‘adopted’ by Moa Arts in 2018.
TANGENTYERE ARTISTS
Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Around 400 Artists make up Tangentyere Artists; an Alice Springs based Aboriginal owned Art Centre providing Arts training and Workshops as well as Marketing and Sales support for the artists. The unique quality of Tangentyere Artists is that it represents the breadth and depth of Central Australian cultural diversity. Tangentyere art centre provides a platform from which artists can express themselves, their lives and cultural values, while enriching their community wellbeing and family livelihoods. Increasingly Tangentyere Artists is becoming known for figurative paintings on canvas and metal, some with textual references ranging from the purely descriptive to the political. KWM was proudly ‘adopted’ by Tangentyere Artists in 2022.
WARINGARRI ABORIGINAL ARTS CENTRE
Kununurra, Western Australia
Waringarri is the first wholly indigenous owned art centre established in Western Australia and one of the oldest continuously operating art centres in Australia supporting economic independence for artists and their community. Established in the 1980s, in the heart of Miriwoong country at Kununurra in the Kimberley region of northern Australia, Waringarri artists share the importance of their Country and Culture.
The centre operates artists’ studios and galleries and supports more than 100 artists as painters, printmakers, wood carvers, boab engravers, sculptors and textile artists. Cultural tours and performances compliment the visitor experience with a rich insight into Miriwoong culture. All proceeds from art sales, art commissions and cultural tourism is returned to the community to support the ongoing program of arts and cultural projects. KWM was proudly ‘adopted’ by Waringarri Aboriginal Arts in 2018.
Artwork in the banner, Maril Kabau Yapul by David Bosun from Moa Arts in the Torres Strait with whom KWM has a community partnership. The image has have been reproduced with David's permission.
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