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Djirrirra Wukunmurra Yukuwa
Contemporary Australian Aboriginal white and grey ochre painting on bark

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Djirrirra Wukunmurra Yukuwa has been painting at Buku-Larrnggay Mulka, and Aboriginal art centre in Arnhem Land, Australia, for over two decades and demonstrated great talent from an early age. In 1997 she assisted her father, Yanggarriny Wunungmurra (1932–2003) on his award winning bark in the prestigious annual National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Award (NATSIAA). Djirrirra uses natural ochres on bark that is sourced in her local area. Using a very fine brush, she build up her design in white ochre on a dark background; only the white areas are painted. Her technique is unique. Djirrirra’s father granted her authority to paint her own works whilst he was alive. Her precise hand and geometric style has increasingly attracted enthusiastic interest from the art world. In 2007 she was selected for Cross Currents, a major art survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Her rise to a level of notice was cemented when she was announced Winner of the TOGA Northern Territory Contemporary Art Award in 2008. Djirrirra has gone on to exhibit around Australia and in the US and China. In 2012 she followed her father and brother as a Telstra NATSIAA winner with Best Bark at the 29th NATSIAA with a new theme, Yukuwa. Yukuwa is one of the personal names of the artist, as well as being the name of a native yam whose annual reappearance is a metaphor for the increase and renewal of the people and their land. In many ways, it is almost a self-portrait. This motif first arose when she had been challenged about her right to paint Buyku, the fishtrap imagery of her own clan and homeland, by a family member. Rather than argue, she retorted by painting imagery which in one sense is her own personal identity. The complaints in relation to Buyku evaporated but Djirrirra has persisted with the Yukuwa imagery. In 2010, Djirrirra was selected for Larrakitj, the Kerry Stokes Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the 17th Sydney Biennale. By 2013, Djirrirra followed fellow Buku-Larrnggay artist Gunybi Ganambarr into extending her use of media beyond naturally occurring ochres and bark, to include recycled found industrial waste materials such as MDF, Perspex louvres, and even a sheet of asbestos. She again visited the USA as part of a print collaboration between the Yirrkala Print Space and the Tamarind Institute where she worked with American Indigenous artists in Albuquerque. Djirrirra is represented in several important collections including National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Queensland Art Gallery Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Artbank, Australian Government.

Creator:
Djirrirra Wukunmurra Yukuwa (1968, Australian)
Dimensions:
Height: 46.07 in (117 cm)Width: 24.41 in (62 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
Medium:
Wood,Pigment
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Bark is a natural medium which over time will move. It is normal for there to be fine cracks in the bark and ochre; this is not considered by Australian museums and collectors as a defect as it is inherent to the medium.
Gallery Location:
Adelaide, AU
Reference Number:
Seller: DYW-4430K1stDibs: LU91613808172

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