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Gunybi Ganambarr (b1973) Ngaymil People
Rumbal - Dhalwangu Buyku (2023)
natural pigments on bark
Djambawa Murrawili (b1953) Madarrpa clan
Rambal - Madarrpa Baraltja (2023)
natural pigments on bark
Bark Ladies: the painters reimagining ancestral beings, mermaids and the Yolŋu universe – in pictures
Eunice Djerrkŋu Yunupiŋu Gumatj born 1945 I am a mermaid 2020 earth pigments and recycled print toner on Stringybark (Eucalyptus sp.)
Bark Ladies: the painters reimagining ancestral beings, mermaids and the Yolŋu universe – in pictures
Garak, the Universe (2008) by Gulumbu Yunupiŋu
Known as ‘Star Lady’, Gulumbu Yunupiŋu died in 2012. As well as helping translate the Bible into Gumatj, she worked in a range of mediums – weaving, jewellery and printmaking – before focusing on bark painting and sculpture. Her fascination with gan’yu (stars) and garak (the universe) led her to develop a signature style – a dense network of crosses unified by fields of dots. Each cross represents a star and all that is visible within the universe. In 2004, she won first prize at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.
detail of the base of a pandanus dilly bag woven in Mapuru, ArnhemLand, Northern Territory, Australia.