Wukun Wanambi
02 August 2008
Ganawu
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Catalogue No:2230O
SP2
Price $950
53cm X 119.5cm
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
Father is Mithili. His father died before he was able to learn from him to any great degree. Began painting as a result of the Saltwater project. His arm of the Marrakulu clan is responsible for saltwater imagery which had not been painted intensively since his father's death. His caretakers or Djungayi (principally Yangarriny Wunungmurra decd.- winner First Prize 1997) transferred their knowledge of these designs so that the title to saltwater could be asserted. Some of these designs were outside even his father's repertoire). His first bark for this project won the Best Bark at the 1998 NATSIAA.
He is an active community member in recreation and health projects and supports a large family.
After winning Best Bark Prize (1998) and being Highly Commended in 3D category (2003) in the Telstra Award he has been included in prestigious collections and had his first solo show at Raft Artspace in Darwin in 2004.
The success of that show led to him being invited to exhibit with prestigious Melbourne gallerist Bill Nuttall at his Niagara Galleries. Wukun has been involved heavily in all the major communal projects of the 2000s such as the Sydney Opera House commission, National Museum opening, Wukidi ceremony and the films Lonely Boy Richard, The Pilot's Funeral and Dhakiyarr versus The King.
Margie West and Steve Fox selected him for the curated exhibition at Paliament House Darwin in July 2006 to showcase the best of Territory art announcing the NT Contemporary Art Award.
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