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Crocodile

This finely crafted crocodile was cut from a Kapok tree. Shaped almost entirely by hand using a wood rasp and sand paper it has been finished in acrylic paint. Teeth are crafted from a different wood, the same material used for spears and fire starting sticks; sharpened to a point they look very life-like!

Flip the crocodile over and you will notice details such as realistic belly colouring, scales, cloaca, and its “underneath” eyes. The attention to detail is incredible despite not being on the non-visible side.

Some Raark or fine line work can be found on the crocodile sides and has been completed using a handmade Jarlk brush harvested from local billabongs and wet areas. This is completed in Yirritja style and consists of three or four lines before alternating colours. Remainder of the piece has been painted using modern western style paint brushes.

Categories: Djilpin Arts Aboriginal Corporation

Name: James Mitjpunun Malibirr

Language: Ganalbiŋu

Community: Gapuwiyak

Biography:

James has been creating art since he was a little boy, he estimates around the age of sixteen. Taught by his father, uncle and adopted father, he learned through sitting, watching and absorbing traditional techniques, knowledge and stories. As James asked about certain stories being painted, his teachers made sure to teach him to only tell the right culture and the right story, as culture is important and it is wrong to tell someone else's story.

Artistic through a variety of mediums including canvas, carving, and yidaki (didj), Jame's recurrent themes are fish and billabong tucker, as well as stone blade paintings which is his mothers story.

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