Boliny Wanambi
02 August 2008
No Title
Dhuwa moiety
Homeland: Gurka'wuy
Clan: Marrakulu, Dhurili
Catalogue No:2016B
SP1
Price $1500
99cm X 151cm
Freight & Handling: $50-100
Each bark sold through the ISX website is fitted with a custom made aluminium hanging system. This provides an easy hanging point and is a museum practice conservation technique.
Link to Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre and more information on nuwuyak or bark painting
About the Artist
Boliny's father was the late Marrakulu leader and artist Mithili. She spent her childhood at the Marrakulu homeland Barraratjpi which is based on the inside of Cape Shield on Blue Mud Bay. The new homeland of Gurka'wuy was established in the early Seventies by her father and other artist elite Du][iwuy and they lived there together.
Boliny is the widow of Birrikitji - Dhalwa\u clan leader up to the early eighties. Boliny has worked at the women's resource Centre, creating hand painted ceramics, and helps with the women's program. Boliny is a prolific artist also working with natural ochres on bark, lino-cut images and wood carvings.
Boliny's successful joint show with her sister at Framed in June 2006 saw her achieve a measure of the recognition she deserved. She was an assistant to various other artists over the years including on prize winning works by Banduk Marika and probably her brother Wukun but had generally stayed out of the limelight. That show in Darwin was widely acknowledged as one of the best exhibitions of the year and completely sold out two large rooms of work.
Sort Artworks by: Subject | Date
|
