YARRINYA, 2013
BARAYAUWA MUNUNGGURR
natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
192.0 x 75.0 cm
bears inscription on Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts label verso: artist’s name, location and cat. 4535Q
Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts, Yirrkala, Northern Territory
The McKay Superannuation Fund Art Collection, Brisbane
Primavera 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney, 24 September – 30 November 2014
This work is accompanied by a certificate from Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts which states: ‘Barayuwa has painted his mother’s Munyuku clan’s design, inspired by her brother, the late ritual specialist and artist Dula Nurruwutthun. It is associated with the ancestral events relating to the death of an ancestral whale called Mirinyunu on the beaches of the Munyuku saltwater estate of the Yarrinya within Blue Mud Bay.’