‘A Celebration of Life’ brings together all the works I have created this year in light of my Year 12 Independent Project. As a key part of the Steiner Curriculum we are to complete a yearlong Project. It is valued for its capacity to significantly enhance individual learning and personal development. The approach is aimed at developing a diverse range of attributes, knowledge and skills for future education, work and life. It consists of four components; the Written, the Practical, the Oral Presentation and lastly the Journal. This exhibition is part of my practical submission. Within my project I am studying ‘How the representation of the human body in various art-forms has evolved through the ages’. Ever since we set foot on this earth, humans have created drawings, paintings and sculptures. The change in how the human figure has been represented through time reflects changing cultural values, but also our human consciousness. Through the mediums of oil on canvas, sketches, photographs and sculpture I aim to represent a celebration of the human body in its organic form. However, behind each piece is the intention to embody the human figure in its raw and tender divinity.
Enya Wilkinson, August 2017
![ACROSS THE WAY
Martumili | Ninuku Arts | Papulankutja Artists | Tjarlirli and Kalkatjara Art | Yarliyil Arts | 28 August -13 September 2026
Curated by Artitja Fine Art Gallery, ACROSS THE WAY is an exhibition spanning thousands of kilometres and bringing together art from five remote Aboriginal-owned art centres throughout the Pilbara, Kimberley, Western Desert and Ngaanyatjarra Lands.
Wed-Sun 10am-4pm
@artitjafineartgallery
Image: Bugai Whyoulter
Wantili
Acrylic on Canvas, 122x92cm
Bugai always tells about Wantili, (Warnrtili, Canning Stock Route Well 25) because she grew up around Wantilili. Her family would travel between Wantili, Kaalpa, Juntu-juntu, Raarki, and Wuranu Wells along the Canning Stock Route. She paints around Wantili.
She saw whitefellas there for the first time, Canning mob when they were travelling up and down the stock route with the bullock. She was a young girl walking around at Wantili. Big mob of people they been walking around there. Canning and his drovers were travelling, making the road. They were running away from those whitefellas, watching them from a long distance. She was a
teenager when she was travelling around there with her four mothers and one daddy. They used to travel around in family groups, Bugai and Jakayu [Biljabu], and Jakayu’s nyupa (partner) Phillip Biljabu.”
Bugai Whyoulter, as translated by her grandson, Cyril Whyoulter](https://scontent-syd2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/798537796_18469408192114606_869931102181518568_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_tt6&_nc_cat=103&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=18de74&efg=eyJlZmdfdGFnIjoiQ0FST1VTRUxfSVRFTS5iZXN0X2ltYWdlX3VybGdlbi5DMyJ9&_nc_ohc=9uX8eN2KF7sQ7kNvwEXucWS&_nc_oc=AdrhNlTHBF2arP31xbgd5usBa_X7KniHv6nMgYpG15zWUyPZL9ViUew-E1jtHz900iPdpb0XOqPYwJR8QRkNgZH-&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-syd2-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&_nc_gid=r88XlDrzMriYnHswkv7ItA&_nc_tpa=Q5bMBQKJ3WSHhsBx_9CpNzvVOS7AC9WAyTv3OukBm1emXVKk7ShfnB-xqnEN-b2EfFcjFYLUTCZWnOxf&oh=00_AQIbf295iUHkJ46ZwUxjNmkUK5xsHciF9Hn8k7mNZwAaUA&oe=6AAA3FD3)
