Roy Wiggan
(Australia 1930 – 2016)
- Community
- Broome, Kimberley region
- Language group
- Bardi, Kimberley region
Jerome Wiggan
(Australia – )
- Community
- Broome, Kimberley region
- Language group
- Bardi, Kimberley region
Roy Jr Wiggan
(Australia – )
- Community
- Broome, Kimberley region
- Language group
- Bardi, Kimberley region
Ilma
- Location
- Yiribana Gallery
- Further information
Ilma describe both the object and the ceremony performed by Bardi people. Roy Wiggan received the stories embedded in his Ilma’s from his father, after his passing, through a series of dreams. Wiggan’s Ilma predominately revolve around life at sea experienced by his father, Henry Wiggan, a Bardi man of the Kimberly region who skippered the Sunday Island Mission lugger. His adventures and misadventures in the Indian Ocean inform the Ilma that are used as dance apparel in the ceremonies associated with the stories, as well as being works of art. The Bardi seafaring peoples’ homeland includes one of nature’s phenomenon, the Buccaneer Archipelago, a marine environment abundant in treacherous tides, rips, whirlpools and overfalls of which, a number of Wiggan’s works reference. The stories that were given to him aid in understanding the landscape and Bardi Ngarrangkarni (lore and culture passed down from the ancestors).
- Place of origin
-
West Kimberley,
Western Australia,
Australia
- Year
- 1994
- Media
- Sculpture
- Medium
- chip board, wool, PVA glue, synthetic polymer paint, florence paint
- Dimensions
- 138.0 x 44.0 cm
- Credit
- Commissioned for the opening of the Yiribana gallery 1994
- Accession number
- 511.2017
- Copyright
- © Estate of Roy Wiggan
