Yolngu - Wikipedia
Before the emergence of the Western Desert art movement, the most well-known Aboriginal art was the Yolngu style of fine cross-hatching paintings on bark. The hollow logs used in Arnhem Land burial practices serve an important spiritual purpose and …
The Yolngu - National Museum of Australia
There are many famous Yolngu politicians, artists, singers and dancers who have worked hard to promote Indigenous culture to a global audience. They first gained national attention for their historic land rights struggle, and their rights regarding commercial and recreational fishing in tidal waters was recently recognised in the Blue Mud Bay ...
Gulumbu Yunupingu | Garak I | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This work is a singular example of contemporary bark painting by the senior female Aboriginal artist Gulumbu Yunupingu, whose paintings are consciously both universal and distinctly Yolngu. Born in 1943, Gulumbu is the daughter of Mungurrawuy Yunupingu (c. 1905–1979), leader of the Gumatj clan of Yolgnu peoples in central and eastern Arnhem ...
Printmaking by Yolngu artists of Northeast Arnhem Land: …
Art plays a fundamental role in the lives of the Yolngu—the Indigenous people of Northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Knowledge of their culture, laws, history and relationship to country has historically been passed on to successive generations orally and through their clan specific patterns and designs (miny’tji).
Arnhem Land - National Gallery of Australia
Most bark paintings and sculpture of Yolngu artists from this area are vertical in orientation, and dictated as much by the medium of bark as artistic design. The vertical trunks, and art works, are emblematic of the human frame. The spiritual nature of …
From the Hearts and Hands of Yolŋu Artists — Google Arts
Yolŋu art is widely admired around Australia and the world, and is a fundamental expression of identity and culture. Hand painting (2022) by Jeanie Govan Yothu Yindi Foundation Distinctive...
Gulumbu Yunupiŋu | MCA Australia - Museum of Contemporary Art …
Gulumbu Yunupiŋu’s artistic practice was incredibly varied, including bark painting, weaving and jewellery making. Yunupiŋu explored concepts about the universe that evolved out of her knowledge of traditional Yolŋu stories, particularly those relating to the stars.
GATHERING: Weaving the Collective in Yolngu Art
2023年12月9日 · The overarching knowledge of the ancient art of weaving is a science of colour and form, underpinned by the knowledge of plants and their properties. In a revolutionary education project begun by the late Mulkun Wirrpanda in 2012 and continued for a decade, the artist made paintings and prints that document the lesser-known plant species that ...
Meaning in Yolngu bark paintings - National Museum of Australia
In the context of Yolngu painting, this is in a sense the painting of spiritual power into the surface that then emanates from it. Here we have one of the first bark paintings collected from eastern Arnhem Land by the anthropologist Donald Thomson in the 1940s.
Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu - Artworks | Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Australia
Acclaimed for her extraordinary gift of mark-making and storytelling, Ms N. Yunupiŋu (1945-2021) was one of the most celebrated and influential Aboriginal Australian artists. Her art practice remains independent of bark painting traditions that she inherited from the Yirrkala region/Yolŋu people of Arnhem Land where she lived.