Gapuwiyak Culture and Arts Aboriginal Corporation is at Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.

1 week ago

🌱 Gitjpulu’s fibre work in this year’s #NATSIAA Finalists’ exhibition pays homage to the long line of women before her who has passed on their knowledge and practice. Her creativity is interwoven into this practice:

“I made this work by myself. When I sit down with my pandanus I follow my own ideas. I first learned from my mother and my grandmother and some aunties. We know about what our Elders used to make a long time ago, like the nganial (conical mat). People used these like a blanket for when it was cold or even to get away from mosquitos.” — Julieanne Gitjpulu Malibirr

“By bridging the old ways with new innovations, Gitjpulu creates exciting variations in her works. She’ll subtly change the pattern by a thread or two, or by tightening or loosening her weave in her three-dimensional bags or her two-dimensional mats and nets. This technique makes way for innovative and striking new designs and forms.” (Tina Baum, Art Collector Magazine)

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Gitjpulu has been awarded a Highly Commended in the Emerging Artist Award for her category, the Wandjuk Marika Memorial 3D Award at this year’s Telstra National Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. Congratulations Gitjpulu!

You can also vote for Gitjpulu’s work for the People’s Choice Award: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflZ5GZ4T4U19mcUUR6iD-lA9uI7NqYDehn1lbsXGEX01Rn0A/viewform?fbzx=...

For those not on Larrakia land, the NATSIAA Finalists’ exhibition can be viewed online via the Virtual Gallery:
🔗 www.magnt.net.au/2024-telstra-natsiaa

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Gapuwiyak Culture and Arts Aboriginal Corporation

2 weeks ago

Happy book launch to Kylie, author and illustrator! 📖🙌🏾❤️

Kylie Gatjawarrawuy Mununggurr’s new book ‘Raymaŋgirrbuy Dhäwu: When I was a little girl’ was launched on Wednesday this week, on Indigenous Literacy Day #ILD2024

This special book tells the story of Kylie’s grandmother’s Country, Raymaŋgirr, a remote Yolŋu homeland in North East Arnhem Land. With the support of Gapuwiyak Culture and Arts, Kylie wrote and illustrated this dhäwu which depicts aspects of traditional Yolŋu knowledge: ‘from watching her [Kylie’s grandmother] grinding ochre and painting in the shade of a tree, to hunting for bush honey (guku) and painting cermonial guku designs on their bodies (special permission was given to Kylie to paint this) and doing the guku dance to full-moon night fishing and cooking up a fish feast on the beach’.

The book launch was a beautiful celebration of Kylie’s achievement, as well as the joy of reading and writing more broadly. The Gapuwiyak School attended and students practiced reading out poems and stories they had written.

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A huge thank you to Magabala Books and their team of awesome editors and designers who did a great job. Also to ARDS Aboriginal Corporation for the translation, East Arnhem Regional Council and ALPA for organising the launch event.

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1. Kylie sitting with her new book at the book launch.
2-3. Gapuwiyak Primary School students and staff at Kylie’s book launch on Indigenous Literacy Day.
4. Wingathana Wunungmurra reading out her poem in front of the audience - well done, Wingathana 👏🏾
5. Ezekiel Wunungmurra sharing his work - fabulous effort, Ezekiel! 👏🏾
6. ⁠Kylie signing her books.
7-9. Photos with the author! Ft. Serita Gurruwiwi, Emmy Macrae, Trevor van Weeren

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Gapuwiyak Culture and Arts Aboriginal Corporation

3 weeks ago

Russell tells the story of his #NATSIAA2024 finalist painting:

“Gandjalala is a creator ancestor, he is also know as the sugar bag or honey, man. My story for Gandjalala starts at Ngilipitji, a special place for the Wagilak clan.

Ngilipitji is the place where he made his tools, he had a Dimbuka (special bag for honey), Warriman (spear) and Mawurrwurr (spear thrower) and the Larr (stone tip for the spear). He stamped and danced on the Bambula (Dancing ground) there.

He saw Nuthang the honey bee heading east and followed him to the Marrakulu place called Gurkawuy and then further north to the hill they call Nhulun, and then on to other places further out west like Dhupuwamirri and Weemol. The bees were inside the Gadayka (stringy bark tree) at those places. The bees showed Gandjalala how to cut down the tree to get the honey. The bees flew in and out, they were children of that place just like Yolngu now who call those place home. Gandjalala stopped at each place where the bees led him and he stamped his feet again and danced on the Bambula to mark that place so he could come back and find that honey again later.

This is my painting of the Bambula, the ground where Gandjalala danced. It is a part of the Gandjalala story. This is a true story for the Wagilak tribe, it’s a song line, a history story, a foundation story. Artists paint different parts of the songline like; honey, bees, stringybark and the Bambula.”

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Congratulations again to Russell Ngadiyali Wanapuyngu who was selected as a finalist in this year’s #NAATSIA - the most prestigious Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in the country. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

You can vote for Russell in the People’s Choice Award here:
🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflZ5GZ4T4U19mcUUR6iD-lA9uI7NqYDehn1lbsXGEX01Rn0A/viewform?fbzx=...

For those not on Larrakia land, the NATSIAA Finalists’ exhibition can be viewed online via the Virtual Gallery:
🔗 www.magnt.net.au/2024-telstra-natsiaa

#aboriginalart #artawards #peopleschoiceawards #indigenousart #firstnationsart #paintingoncanvas #yolnguart #yolnguclanstory #wagilak #gapuwiyakcultureandarts #larrakia #magnt #northernterritory #ntaustralia ... See MoreSee Less