From Milikapati, Tiwi artist Johnathan ‘World Peace’ Bush is a voice of the old and the new

Photo: Jilamara. Retrieved from abc.net.au

Despite being some of the most isolated in Australia, the artists of Milikapati on the Tiwi Islands attract international acclaim.

The community was established in 1941 as a permanent Aboriginal settlement by the Australian government.

It sits at the top of the Tiwis, about 150 kilometres north of Darwin, at the mouth of one of many of the islands’ serpentine rivers.

There you will find a community store, school, health clinic, hall, welfare office, footy oval, fishing lodge and about 400 residents that produce some of the country’s greatest creative work.

Johnathan “World Peace” Bush is the latest artist from Milikapati to gain global recognition.