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Manini GumanaGarrapara2009
2009
$2,018.49
£1,470
€1,720.44
CA$2,784.65
A$3,061.09
CHF 1,608.77
MX$37,172.81
NOK 20,069
SEK 19,013.97
DKK 12,840.10
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Gumana’s portrayal of Garrapara conversely draws on traditional Yolngu aesthetics, techniques and culturally significant motifs. Painting on bark, Gumana uses a marwat (hair of the head), a brush fashioned from human hair, to mark out rectilinear designs which she then infills with rarrk (crosshatching) in earthy ochres. In a Western frame of analysis, crosshatching is used to give the impression of a plane image’s tone and its three-dimensionality, which in part is also true of Gumana’s depiction. A mesh of layered linework creates depth in the image and alludes to Garrapara’s deep waters, while the zigzagged and intersecting boundaries of these crosshatched segments liken to cresting waves.
In Garrapara, however, form also represents the metaphysical world. The desired effect of rarrk in Yolngu painting from eastern Arnhem Land is, as Howard Morphy describes, to transform a “relatively flat dull surface to one of bir’yun (shimmering brilliance” which is “a manifestation of the ancestral power that lies behind the painting.” Garrapara’s geometry encodes the residue or footprint left by the ancestral beings on the country during Wangarr (Dreaming, or creation time). Gumana’s mark making and patterns therefore imitate the actions which both created the world and continue to make it meaningful.
Gumana tells us that there is a physical link between creation, the world and ourselves, a connection emphasised by her use of bark as a canvas and naturally occurring ochres as paints. Through Gumana’s practice, bark from the artist’s immediate environment is transformed is transmuted to a sculptural object, into a metaphor in a London gallery for the physical world of eastern Arnhem Land. Gumana similarly transforms ochres into paints which she uses to depict the life and history of her physical world, meaning which is again transported, conveying Gumana’s experience cross-culturally.
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