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.
Good bush food story This is a story of the artists dreaming and his family. A freshwater story of looking for food, you can see the long-neck turtles and file snakes in the water. It Read more…
Evonne’s Buliya (catfish) dhawu (story) In this painting, Evonne has painted her Mari (mothers, mother) dreaming of Buliya (catfish). This is a freshwater story from Ganalbingu country in the Arafura Wetlands. Evonne’s Mari taught Evonne’s Read more…
Baru Dhawu (Crocodile Story) Baru (the crocodile man), was from the Gumatj clan. People usually call him Gurdu Gurdu or Baru which means crocodile. He lived his life at a place called Yirrkala. Living near Read more…