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.
- Screen Print on Somerset Cream paper
- Dimensions: image: 21 x 29cm paper: 38 x 47cm
- Cat No. 4486-18-20/20
I was born at Nhulunbuy Hospital. My mother is Natjinga Marika. l live in Yirrkala - Recreation Road. I enjoy learning about printmaking and I have a good knowledge of photographic linocut. I would like to learn more about art. My favourite artist was my grandmother Gaymala Yunupingu, she made lots of prints that were very colourful.'
Dhalmula's mother is the daughter of Roy Marika also known as the Father of Land Rights. Her mother Dhundhuŋa was one of the daughters of Muŋgurrawuy whose other children include Australians of the Year, Galarrwuy and Mandawuy Yunupingu and famous artists, Gaymala, Gulumbu, Barrupu, Nyapanyapa, Djerrkŋu, Djakaŋu and Dhopiya. Dhalmula is a very slight person who is generally very reserved and shy. As a young girl she engaged with the Print Space through some special projects. From her first print it was obvious that she had a unique hand. She eventually worked as a printmaker between 2014 and 2019. After this she moved with her partner to Gapuwiyak and then returned in 2023 when she won the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Emerging artist prize. Since then she has been living at Yirrkala and alternating between working as a printmaker and as an artist
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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