Design and Art Australia Online

These three artist educators deploy botanical illustration to tell stories: Winsome Jobling depicts accelerated climate change and Yolnu artists Djirrirra Wununmurra and Mulkun Wirrpanda depict the songs of sacred places to map the landscape and the relationships between various clans and explain the forces that act upon and within the environment and the spirit’s path through existence and deepening knowledge.

Matriarchs: Motherlines of the Yolgnu and Tiwi Islands, brings together generations of artists committed to keeping Yolgnu and Tiwi law and culture strong. The exhibition considers their work from the perspective of a feminist genealogy tracing matriarchal and collegiate relationships

Mother to Daughter: On Art and Caring for Homelands celebrates leading women painters and their daughters at the renowned Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre at Yirrkala, a small Aboriginal community on the northeastern tip of the Top End. Presented by The Cross Art Projects and Buku–Larrnggay Mulka Centre.

Presented by The Cross Art Projects and Buku–Larrnggay Mulka Centre

Australia is in two parts, Yirritja and Dhuwa. The Sun is Dhuwa. The Moon is Yirritja. The sulphur-crested Cockatoo is Yirritja but the Corella (an almost identical white parrot) is Dhuwa. All sharks are Dhuwa except for the Hammerhead and Banjo sharks which are Yirritja. And so on to the insects, planets and people. This is true.

Yirrkala, After Berndt accompanies and honours Yirrkala Drawings (1946-47) at Art Gallery of New South Wales, the first major exhibition on the revelatory drawings at the heart of the Berndt Museum at University of Western Australia.

Yirrkala, After Berndt focuses on the recent work of Marrnyula Mununggurr and Naminapu Maymuru-White, featured artists in Yirrkala Drawings.

Mulkun Wirrpanda is a renowned Yolngu artist from Blue Mud Bay in NE Arnhem Land and Fiona MacDonald is a balanda (non-Yolngu) artist from Sydney. Their fine and thoughtful works come together to confer on the resonance of symbolic actions on the shoreline and the ensuing miscommunication, misdeeds and corrections.

Barrupu Yunupingu: Fire
Mulkun Wirrpanda: Water & Honey
Curated by Andrew Blake with Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre