• 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.