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: Evonne Rraraypum
Language: Djambarrpuyungu
Biography:
Evonne is one of eight children from one of the first recognised female painters in Ramingining; D. Djukulul. She has only recently started to come and paint at the art centre, however she watched and practiced with her Mum since she was a young child, carrying on family tradition through painting song lines and story lines.
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…