Name: May Yamangarra
Language: Manharrngu
Biography:
Yamangarra was born in 1970 to father, renowned artist, David Malangi and mother Elie Ganbada. Yamannggara was taught the art of painting as a teenager, helping her father with the application of dots (white berries) on a Gunmirringu painting, and then gradually painting the background rarrk on her father’s works.
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