Gunybi Ganambarr b. 1973

Also known as Robert
  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Painter)
Gunybi Ganambarr works through the Buku-Larrngay Mulka arts centre at Yirrkala in the Northern Territory. In 2008 he was the winner of the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Artist Award at the Gallery of Modern Art (Queensland Art Gallery).
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Gunybi Ganambarr has mainly lived and worked as an artist at Gangan, sometimes based at Dhuruputjpi. He is a ceremonial yidaki player who is sought after by elders. Ganambarr accompanied the Yolngu delegations to the opening of the National Museum in Canberra 2001 and the larrakitj installation at the Sydney Opera House, 2002, and played at the opening of Djambawa Marawili’s exhibition in the 2006 Sydney Biennale.

Under the tutelage of artists like Gawirrin Gumana and Yumutjin Wununmurra from his mother’s Dhalwangu clan whilst living on their country he has now assumed ceremonial authority.
He has combined that with a startling innovative flair to produce groundbreaking sacred art that is at once novel and still entirely consistent with Yolngu madayin (law).
In the year of 2008 he was chosen as an exhibiting finalist in the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Artist Award at the Gallery of Modern Art at Queensland Art Gallery. He went on to win that Award.

Writers:
Buku-Larrngay Mulka
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011

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