Fine Art Prints by R.Ashley

Djilpin Arts' collection of Gapu limited edition prints commenced in 2007 with Basil Hall Editions. Gapu, or water, is the inspiration behind much of the work produced. The continuing collaboration between artists from Djilpin’s Ghunmarn Culture Centre and Basil Hall encourages new and emerging artists as well as established artists to experiment with a variety of print mediums. Etchings and Silk Screens make up Series I to IV, with Series V also including Japanese Woodblock prints.

About R.Ashley
R.Ashley is a senior Wagalak man with homelands in North-East Arnhem Land. He has featured in many Walking With Spirits Festivals and has performed traditional songs for the Darwin Festival, the Dreaming Festival Qld, and DanceSite (Alice Springs). 'Muyngarnbi - Songs from Walking with Spirits', is his commercial recording debut and had six nominations in the 2008 NT Indigenous Music Awards, winning the Best Traditional Award. R.Ashley features in the ABC ‘Yarning Up’ Documentary 'One River' (Director Tom E. Lewis), which won the Fist Full of Films major prize (August 2008) and the music video Warrk Warrk which won Best Music Video at ImagineNative Film Festival in Toronto 2008. R.Ashley is Dhuwa and sings the corroboree known as Bunggul (Rittharngu for ‘dance’). He speaks a number of Arnhem Land languages and is a high-ceremony man throughout the region, as well as an accomplished artist, highly fluent in the use of marwat, he has successfully applied this traditional grass-brush technique in a range of mediums. R.Ashley’s etchings have been exhibited in Darwin, Melbourne, Katherine and Canberra and are highly sought after for their intricate designs and sacred stories. He is well-known for painting with a fine brush made of a few strands of hair.