by Gabrielle Skuja | Mar 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
Gamanungku Gamanungku is a bright white pigment that is found along the coast in rocky places or washed up in the sand. Used by both Yirritja and Dhuwa people (the 2 sides of the moiety in Yolngu law) it is painted onto the body during ceremonies including funerals...
by admin | Oct 13, 2017 | Culture
Home During Raymond and Joyce’s residency at the Kluge Ruhe, University of Viriginia, they have demonstrated how to make a Marratjiri. Marratjiri are made as gifts by one clan to give to another. For this one, Joyce Naliyabu (Dhuwa) harvested bark fiber from the...
by admin | Oct 6, 2017 | Exhibitions
Gapu Murnuk was received with great excitement by the Embassy of Australia, Washington D.C. staff and patrons. Raymond Bulambula, Stanley Gurruwa and Chris Durkin represented Milingimbi at the opening. Raymond and Stanley honoured their guests with their singing of...
by admin | Sep 22, 2017 | Culture, Exhibitions
The Gapu ga rangithirri ga ngurruthirri (the water is coming up, the water is going away) exhibition is on at Woolloongabba Gallery from the 26 September – 21 October 2017. Author Louise Hamby, Research Fellow – ANU, August 2017 Woolloongabba Gallery’s newest...
by admin | Aug 27, 2017 | Culture, Exhibitions
PRESS RELEASE: Milingimbi Art and Culture Artists Residency at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia and Exhibition at Australian Embassy, Washington USA, September 3 2017 Milingimbi is a small island off the remote northern coast of...
by admin | Aug 25, 2017 | Culture, History
The Milingimbi Makarrata Resolution is an outcome of “Makarrata: Bringing the Past into the Future”, an historic event held at Milingimbi in Arnhem Land from August 12 to 14 2016. We acknowledge it is written in the spirit of makarrata, a ceremony that has, as its...
by admin | Aug 22, 2017 | Artist Q & A
Artist Margaret Rarru says that she was a young teenager when she first started to weave at Galawin’ku, on Elcho Island with her aunties. Rarru sat down with her numa (aunties) and the balanda (white) ladies from the mission at Galawin’ku learnt weaving from them....
by admin | Aug 19, 2017 | Artist Q & A, Culture
Raymond Bulambula is a Mandjikay, Wobulkarra man whose ancestral country includes Barringu and Langarra (Howard Island, south of Elcho Island). In this Gamanungku (painting / design) Bulambula depicts Gapu Murnuk in a style that belongs to Barringu. Bulambula can...
by admin | Aug 12, 2017 | Artist Q & A, Culture
George Dangi has painted the Djiliwirri Guku design (honey design) because he is a Gupapuyngu man of Yirritja moiety. This design is commonly painted onto the body during the Ngarra mens ceremony and Dhapi (making man) ceremony. During the ceremony the men lie on...
by admin | Jul 30, 2017 | Culture, Exhibitions
Remember to pop into Koskela to see the Walma – Moon Rise Exhibition. Walma is a Yolŋu word, translating as ‘to emerge’ or ‘rise’, particularly in relation to the sun and moon, thus embodying the confidence and optimism within the current generation of...
