Aboriginal art in Ramingining, Central Arnhem Land is commonly illustrated through designs and images of animals, plants, and landscape. These motifs commonly reflect the artists ancestral inheritance and their dreamings, and are referred to as totems.
This painting features a waterlily.
Name: Lisa Lalaywarra
Language: Djinaŋ (Marraŋu)
Biography:
Lisa is an early career painter and weaver and is the wife of senior artist Bobby Bununggurr. She is a focussed artist who has developed a very painterly approach in how she tells her freshwater stories on canvas. When Lisa isn’t painting she is outside with the women weavers, harvesting and collecting fibres and dyes to create beautiful fibre art pieces.
Bathi (Pandanus Basket) Bathi are woven from the split leaves of the Screw Palm (Pandanus Spiralis). Coil weaving was introduced to Arnhem Land in the 1930s. It was adapted from techniques used by Indigenous women Read more…
Raypiny Dhawu (Fresh Water Story) All Aboriginal people originate from a spiritual source, fixed in a particular place in their land or the sea. These ‘spiritual reservoirs’ are often in the form of special waterholes Read more…
