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Birlmu dja Buluwana Birlmu – barramundi Buluwana – Mimih spirit Sister artists, Apphia Wurrkidj and Jennifer Wurrkidj have collaborated on this beautiful work.
Birlmu dja Buluwana Birlmu – barramundi Buluwana – Mimih spirit Sister artists, Apphia Wurrkidj and Jennifer Wurrkidj have collaborated on this beautiful work.
Birlmu dja Buluwana Birlmu – barramundi Buluwana – Mimih spirit Sister artists, Apphia Wurrkidj and Jennifer Wurrkidj have collaborated on this beautiful work.
Bolung Bolung (Rainbow Serpent) is from the sacred country of Dukala- Djarranj. This is the country of Jay’s grandparent and a place of great significance, as Bolung, the Rainbow Serpent, travelled through the landscape. Rock art in the area depicts a rotund Bolung.
Eiffel tower and the Maladj spirit “I want to tell you about my design, that Eiffel tower one. This year it was my first time going to Paris. I didn’t know that place, nothing. We travelled around the world to get there, we flew underneath the world in an aeroplane. Read more…
Lorrkkon – Marilyn James Marilyn’s first screen print design depicts the story of lorrkkon (hollow funeral logs). This the story of her great, great grandfather and grandmother who were bark painters, as well as also sacred lorrkkon painters. When designing this screen print, Marilyn was remembering her childhood living in Read more…
Manbirrbbirr dja Kunwardde – major work Manbirrbbirr dja Kunwardde In Kuninjku the name manbirrbbirr is used for a number of densely flowering shrubs and small trees including Verticordia cunninghamii, yellow flowering Austromyrtus species and also Acacia platycarpa which also has dense white. Kunwardde means stone, rock or money in Kuninjku. Read more…
Jabiru and Manbirrbbirr Manbirrbbirr – In Kuninjku the name manbirrbbirr is used for a number of densely flowering shrubs and small trees including Verticordia cunninghamii, yellow flowering Austromyrtus species and also Acacia platycarpa which also has dense white.
Manbirrbbirr dja Kunwardde – major work Manbirrbbirr dja Kunwardde In Kuninjku the name manbirrbbirr is used for a number of densely flowering shrubs and small trees including Verticordia cunninghamii, yellow flowering Austromyrtus species and also Acacia platycarpa which also has dense white. Kunwardde means stone, rock or money in Kuninjku. Read more…
Morning Star The ceremony known throughout Arnhem Land generically as Marradjiri is a ceremony of diplomacy given by one group to another to establish good relations and to strengthen kinship (for example by marriage) and economic ties (for example the sharing of clan estate resources). The central object in the Read more…
Ngalng and Duruk Ngalng (fresh water yabby) ‘This is a story from Mankorlod. This is a djang story. This is the creation story about the fresh water yabby. Starting with the stone, that’s the raw one and the cooked one. The stone rock suddenly turned to ngalng, in a flash. Read more…