Regina Pilawuk Wilson
Regina Pilawuk Wilson is an Australian Aboriginal artist known for her paintings, printmaking and woven fiber-artworks. She paints syaws (fish nets), warrgarri (dilly bag), and message sticks. Her work has been shown in many Australian and international museums, collections and galleries. She has won the General Painting category of the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in 2003 for a syaw (fish net) painting. Wilson has been a finalist for the Kate Challis RAKA Award, the Togart Award, and the Wynne Prize. Biography Regina Pilawuk Wilson was born in 1948 at Wudikapildyerr in the Daly River region of the Northern Territory of Australia. She is a master weaver and took up acrylic painting in 2001. Her subject matter is based around weaving fibre art. At age ten, her grandmother taught her where, when, and how to collect the right grasses, vines, and sources of natural colour like flowers, berries, and roots. She learned many weaving techniques. She perfected them over the decades and became an authority figure for her sense of familial and cultural identity. Regina has also explored durrmu (body painting dot). She has created silk screen prints and etchings with Basil Hall Editions and Red