12. Ŋukaliya, 2017 (1/20)
"This print is about ŋukaliya (hermit crab). We collect them from the beach and we cook them on the fire. It's manymak (good) for people with heart and kidney problems. When I was a little girl we went hunting, we would collect ŋukaliya and my grandmother would tell me the story and knowledge about ŋukaliya while we hunted. When we cook them, inside the shell turns orange when it's cooked, then it's ready to eat."
Printed 2017
- Colour reduction linocut on BFK Rives paper
- Dimensions: 59 x 49cm
- Cat No. 4416-17-1/20
- Homeland: Gulurunga
- Clan: Rirratjiŋu
- Moiety: Dhuwa
Munuy’ŋu is a Rirratjiŋu lady who was born and still lives in Yirrkala. In 2010 Munuy’ŋu was part of a printing workshop at Buku Larrnggay Mulka in collaboration with the Yambirrpa Youth Development Unit at Yirrkala School to provide training for young people not attending School. She went on to complete school maintaining a focus on print making within her studies, with a clear ambition to work in the arts, in particular Buku Larrŋgay Mulka centre and also as a TV presenter.
In 2016 Munuy’ŋu Marika became the Print Master for the Yirrkala Print Space and has since managed the studio and delivered some of the most successful Yirrkala Print Space exhibitions to date. She is married to Dimithaya Burarrwaŋa a founding and current member of popular band King Stungray and has two children. Munuy’ŋu leads the printing of etchings, linocuts and screenprints, for all the artists at Buku Larrŋgay Mulka wishing to put work to print.
As told by Munuy’ŋu upon starting at Buku Larrŋgay Mulka in 2010:
“I am a Yirrkala girl and I love printmaking especially mixing colours and looking at the design. I really enjoy talking to people and friends and telling them about Yirrkala. I have good rhythm and enjoy dancing. My mother Djalinda gives me support with my art”
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.
In the 1960’s, Narritjin Maymuru set up his own beachfront gallery from which he sold art that now graces many major museums and private collections. He is counted among the art centre’s main inspirations and founders, and his picture hangs in the museum. His vision of Yolŋu-owned business to sell Yolŋu art that started with a shelter on a beach has now grown into a thriving business that exhibits and sells globally.
Today Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre 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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