Lucy Yarawanga Dinner Plates
Serve your mates with good food and good art with these limited edition plates by Laundry Gallery, featuring the cheeky artwork of Bulanjdjan Lucy Yarawanga.
Created for our MAKAN CLUB dinner at Hope Street Radio in February 2025, bring Lucy's creativity and the stories of the Bawaliba Homeland into your home through these striking homewares.
- 25cm round dinner plate
- Microwave, dishwasher and food safe
- Discount automatically applied at checkout for every two plates
Each plate design has been taken from an original painting by Bulanjdjan Lucy Yarawanga - there are four to choose from, or get one of each!
Round Bawaliba (Too Many Yam)
“This lady was really skinny, but then she ate lots and lots and lots of yam, and kangaroo and goanna. She ate them raw. She got bigger and bigger. And after that she was so greedy for yams, and every meat, that she took her dillybag and kept collecting more food. She’d go back home and cook on the fire, and she’d never share, and she got fat.”
Bobo Bawaliba & Yam
'Bawaliba Homeland' was Lucy's first solo exhibition and we were proud to host it at Laundry Gallery in 2023. Showcasing works on paper depicting the lives of Bawaliba at their homeland near Djinkarr, Central Arnhem Land, the show was hugely popular for its playfulness and humour. Two of our plate designs - Bobo Bawaliba and Yam - feature fragments from two paintings that were part of that show.
‘My Kikka (mother), when she was alive, she would tell me these stories. I was just a little girl and she would tell us the stories in her language Gurrgoni. In the camps there were boy and girl Bawaliba, and old Bawaliba too. They loved to dance by the firelight, keeping rhythm with a stick. They had lots of hair, they were really tall and skinny, with spots on their bodies. The Bawaliba lived a long time in peace. They were the only spirits on their country and so they were never disturbed.”
Original artwork titles:
- Bawaliba family saying bobo to Kikka (mother)
- Yams, Dilly bags and Digging Stick
Rainbow Serpent
This incredible design is from a brand new artwork by Lucy, to be exhibited in a solo exhibition at Laundry Gallery later in 2025.
Bulanjdjan Lucy Yarawanga is an experienced Gurr-goni textile artist, who predominantly works at Bábbarra Women’s Centre in Maningrida. She works with both lino and screen printing techniques, with her textile designs often referencing her ancestral stories, including various depictions of Bawaliba (Djinkarr spirit woman). Lucy’s painting style, like her personality, is bold and to the point. As well as her native Gurr-goni language – one of the least commonly spoken languages in Arnhem Land, Lucy also speaks another eight Maningrida languages.
Maningrida Arts & Culture is a pre-eminent site of contemporary cultural expression and art-making, abundant with highly collectable art and emerging talent. Through their homelands resource organisation, Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation, artists turned an art trade that began just over 50 years ago into a multi-million dollar arts and cultural enterprise.
Maningrida Arts & Culture supported hundreds of artists on their homelands, more than 20 arts workers, held 20 exhibitions annually, won prestigious awards, and enjoyed the international fame and success that the boom in the Aboriginal art market of the 1990s and 2000s enabled.
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