Girri Miny'tji
The project is about identity of Yolngu women and this group of print makers. The skirts we all wear everyday for work are always bright and colourful long skirts, with different design and patterns. We put the skirt designs with our faces through the screenprinting process as an exploration of identity. The design of my yapa skirt looks like it is fruit orange or lemon. The skirt itself is black and white, but for the print I converted these colours to shades of blue . I chose the blue colours for the water that is all around us.
- Screenprint on BFK Rives
- Dimensions: Print size: 21 x 27cm Paper size: 34 x 47cm
- Cat No. 4485-18-17/20
Bitharr is a senior printmaker and arts worker at Buku Larrnggay as well as an artist. She started working at Buku-Larrnggay Mulka in early 2016 and has since developed her skills as a print maker, through participating in several workshops, both in the Yirrkala studio and abroad. In June 2016 Bitharr participated in Sean Smith's printmaking workshop where she produced her first linocut work.
Other workshops with Sean Smith have included etching techniques and screen prinƟng. In early 2017, Bitharr travelled to Castlemaine to assist in opening the Balnhdhurr – A Lasting Impression exhibition and to conduct its associated public programs. Bitharr is a key representative of the art centre at art fairs and events Australia wide and in 2019 completed an arts worker extension training through ANKAAA (Association of Northern, Kimberley and Arnhem Aboriginal Artists). Bitharr continues to grow her skills and knowledge base across many aspects of Buku Larrnggay's operations.
Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre is the Indigenous community controlled art centre of Northeast Arnhem Land. Located in Yirrkala, a small Aboriginal community on the northeastern tip of the Top End of the Northern Territory, approximately 700km east of Darwin. The primarily Yolŋu (Aboriginal) staff of around twenty services Yirrkala and the approximately twenty-five homeland centres in the radius of 200km.
Today Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre now consists of two divisions; the Yirrkala Art Centre which represents Yolŋu artists exhibiting and selling contemporary art and The Mulka Project which acts as a digital production studio and archiving centre incorporating the museum.
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