Eggs are very important to Yolngu people. They are very common in the bush from both birds and reptiles such as magpie geese, lizards, turtles and crocodiles. They are used in ceremony and a food source.
The artists in Ramingining paint designs and images of animals, plants, and landscape. These motifs commonly reflect the artists ancestral inheritance and their totems and dreamings.
Name: Selena Munguluma
Language: Ganalbingu
Community: Ramingining
Biography:
Selena is an early career artist and is the daughter of senior artist Bobby Bununggurr and Joy Borruwa. She started painting at 12 years old and was taught by her bapa (father) and (mari) who was a renowned artist and one of the first ever Yolngu women to start painting.
Quincey Renkin – Naku (canoe) Naku (canoes) were made traditionally from the bark of a particular tree and used for hunting. This sculpture depicts a Yolngu man painted in ceremonial ochre hunting for gumang (magpie Read more…
Quincey Renkin – Naku (canoe) Naku (canoes) were made traditionally from the bark of a particular tree and used for hunting. This sculpture depicts a Yolngu man painted in ceremonial ochre hunting for gumang (magpie Read more…
Quincey Renkin – Naku (canoe) Naku (canoes) were made traditionally from the bark of a particular tree and used for hunting. This sculpture depicts a Yolngu man painted in ceremonial ochre hunting for gumang (magpie Read more…