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…
Yawkyawk (Mermaid) la Manjelk (Rain) Sari A beautiful pink discharge dyed cotton silk sari featuring woodblock designs created in 2023 – 2025. Co-created by Bábbarra Women’s Centre, Maningrida and Tharangini Studio, India. Marebu (floor mat) by Raylene Bonson Manjelk (Rain) by Helen Lanyinwanga Kundalk (grass) by Deborah Wurrkidj Yawyyawk (young woman Read more…
Yawkyawk (Mermaid) la Manjelk (Rain) Sari A beautiful pink discharge dyed cotton silk sari featuring woodblock designs created in 2023 – 2025. Co-created by Bábbarra Women’s Centre, Maningrida and Tharangini Studio, India. Marebu (floor mat) by Raylene Bonson Manjelk (Rain) by Helen Lanyinwanga Kundalk (grass) by Deborah Wurrkidj Yawyyawk (young woman Read more…
Yawkyawk (Mermaid) la Manjelk (Rain) Sari A beautiful pink discharge dyed cotton silk sari featuring woodblock designs created in 2023 – 2025. Co-created by Bábbarra Women’s Centre, Maningrida and Tharangini Studio, India. Marebu (floor mat) by Raylene Bonson Manjelk (Rain) by Helen Lanyinwanga Kundalk (grass) by Deborah Wurrkidj Yawyyawk (young woman Read more…
Kunmadj – Dora Diaguma Dora has depicted kunmadj (dillybag), which is a large woven collecting basket. These large bags are often made from the burney vine (Malaisia scandens), a strong, pliable plant that grows along the ground and into the canopy of monsoon vine thickets. The bags are used to collect heavy Read more…
Marebu (Floor Mat) and Yawkyawk (Young woman mermaid) A beautiful indigo discharge dyed cotton silk sari featuring woodblock designs created in 2023 during a special workshop with Tharangini Studio in Bangalore. This fabric features the following block designs: Kunred (Country) by Janet Marawarr) Marebu (Raylene Bonson) Kunngol ( clouds) Yawyyawk (young woman Read more…
Kunmadj – Dora Diaguma Dora has depicted kunmadj (dillybag), which is a large woven collecting basket. These large bags are often made from the burney vine (Malaisia scandens), a strong, pliable plant that grows along the ground and into the canopy of monsoon vine thickets. The bags are used to collect heavy Read more…
Kunmadj – Dora Diaguma Dora has depicted kunmadj (dillybag), which is a large woven collecting basket. These large bags are often made from the burney vine (Malaisia scandens), a strong, pliable plant that grows along the ground and into the canopy of monsoon vine thickets. The bags are used to collect heavy Read more…
Wubbunj (Paperbark Canoe) “Wubbunj is our traditional canoe. This design is the old history story of how people came to live in this place we call Maningrida. Two old people were staying on the other side of the saltwater, in Narlarrambarr area. The old people slept in a paper bark Read more…
