This painting depicts Baltji (Yam) which has been a reliable food source for Yolngu people for many centuries. Baltji can be found across the different landscapes of East Arnhem Land and are only harvested seasonally.
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.
Nawarlah (Brown River Stingray) 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 Read more…
Nawarlah (Brown River Stingray) 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 Read more…
Nawarlah (Brown River Stingray) 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 Read more…