ngaruwanajirri art centre
Wurrumiyanga, Bathurst Island, NT
Ngaruwanajirri means ‘helping one another’.
At Wurrumiyanga on Bathurst Island, one beautiful building known as the Tiwi Sistine Chapel or The Keeping Place houses a small group of Tiwi artists who attend daily to create artwork in a peaceful environment..
Artists create work in a beautifully designed heritage listed Ngaruwanajirri Building, also known as the Keeping Place, and very evocatively as the “Tiwi Sistine Chapel“ due to the detailed and historic painted murals by past masters of Tiwi design and culture that remain revered on our curved ceiling.
