Wak Wak – Melba This design depicts a sacred site at ‘Kurrurldul’, an outstation south of Maningrida. The ‘rarrk’, or abstract crosshatching, on this work represents the design for the crow totem ancestor called ‘Djimarr’. Today this being exists in the form of a rock, which is permanently submerged at Read more…
Wak Wak – Melba This design depicts a sacred site at ‘Kurrurldul’, an outstation south of Maningrida. The ‘rarrk’, or abstract crosshatching, on this work represents the design for the crow totem ancestor called ‘Djimarr’. Today this being exists in the form of a rock, which is permanently submerged at Read more…
Wak Wak – Melba This design depicts a sacred site at ‘Kurrurldul’, an outstation south of Maningrida. The ‘rarrk’, or abstract crosshatching, on this work represents the design for the crow totem ancestor called ‘Djimarr’. Today this being exists in the form of a rock, which is permanently submerged at Read more…
Woodblock Sari by Bábbarra X Tharangini Woodblock print on handwoven silk, extract print with organic dyes, 100% Silk Co-created by Bábbarra Women’s Centre, Maningrida and Tharangini Studio, India Printed by artisans at Tharangini Studio Design brief by Bábbarra Women’s Centre Artists Woodblock carving by Shri C.H. Sreeram and Shri S.K. Rajak Read more…
Woodblock Sari by Bábbarra X Tharangini Woodblock print on handwoven silk, extract print with organic dyes, 100% Silk Co-created by Bábbarra Women’s Centre, Maningrida and Tharangini Studio, India Printed by artisans at Tharangini Studio Design brief by Bábbarra Women’s Centre Artists Woodblock carving by Shri C.H. Sreeram and Shri S.K. Rajak Read more…
Woodblock Sari by Bábbarra X Tharangini Woodblock print on handwoven silk, extract print with organic dyes, 100% Silk Co-created by Bábbarra Women’s Centre, Maningrida and Tharangini Studio, India Printed by artisans at Tharangini Studio Design brief by Bábbarra Women’s Centre Artists Woodblock carving by Shri C.H. Sreeram and Shri S.K. Rajak Read more…
Woodblock Sari by Bábbarra X Tharangini Woodblock print on handwoven silk, extract print with organic dyes, 100% Silk Co-created by Bábbarra Women’s Centre, Maningrida and Tharangini Studio, India Printed by artisans at Tharangini Studio Design brief by Bábbarra Women’s Centre Artists Woodblock carving by Shri C.H. Sreeram and Shri S.K. Rajak Read more…
Mandjabu (Fish Trap) – Susan Marawarr “In old times people would make these mandjabu (fish traps) to go fishing. They are made with vine we find in the jungle. That old man, Anchor Gulunba, he showed me how to make these fish traps. I would sit there and watch him Read more…
Mandjabu (Fish Trap) – Susan Marawarr “In old times people would make these mandjabu (fish traps) to go fishing. They are made with vine we find in the jungle. That old man, Anchor Gulunba, he showed me how to make these fish traps. I would sit there and watch him Read more…
Djomi (Fresh Water Spirit) This design depicts the story of the artist’s ancestral dreaming, the Djómi (Fresh Water Spirit). The Djómi figure is a mermaid-like spirit with fish tail that lives in the freshwater stream that flows out to the sea cliff near Maningrida. Djómi is known to be a Read more…