by Volunteer | May 16, 2018 | Exhibitions
Home Milingimbi artists Margaret Rarru, Helen Ganalmirriwuy and Mandy Batjula will feature in the Local Colour: experiments with nature exhibition, to be held University of New South Wales Gallery, 28 July, 2018 – 15 September....
by Volunteer | Mar 26, 2018 | Culture
Ochre is a fine earth pigment, which includes yellow ochre, red ochre, purple ochre, sienna, and umber. Ochres are ground and mixed with a binding agent, they are painted on bark or the body for ceremony decoration. The major ingredient of all the ochres is iron known...
by Volunteer | Mar 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
We are excited to announce a special acquisition of artwork from the Gapu Murnuk Exhibition by the Australian Embassy, Washington D.C. USA. Congratulations to artists Alfred Walpay, Helen Ganalmiriwuy, Mandy Batjula, Helen Milminydjarrk and Raymond Bulambula whose...
by admin | Oct 13, 2017 | Culture
Home During Raymond and Miss Gorryindi’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, Miss Gorryindi (Dhuwa) harvested bark fiber...
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 Volunteer | Sep 9, 2017 | Culture, Exhibitions
Home Why did you choose to bring this exhibit to fruition? Milingimbi Art and Culture has a long history of art making that saw it as Australia’s premier collecting and research location in the 1950’s and 60’s. A mission was founded here in 1923, and...
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....
