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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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Related stub people
  • Gumana, Gawirrin (associate of)
  • Wununmurra, Yumutjin (associate of)
  • Marawili, Djambawa (associate of)
  • Marika, Wanyubi (associate of)
Related stub person groups
  • Buku-Larrngay Mulka (associate of)
Related works
  • Burrut'tji at Baraltja (creator of)
  • Dhanbarr (creator of)
Related collections
  • Queensland Art Gallery (collected in)
  • South Australian Museum (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • Xtrata Emerging Indigenous Artist Award (received)
  • Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (received)
  • National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition (received)
  • National Sculpture Competition (received)
  • Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (received)
Related events
  • "Bitpit" Yirrkala Sculpture (exhibited at)
  • Young Guns Two (exhibited at)
  • Important Aboriginal Art (exhibited at)
  • Bukulunthunmi - Coming Together, One Place (exhibited at)
  • Galuku Gallery (exhibited at)
  • Young Guns (exhibited at)
  • Circle line column (exhibited at)