Garma, 2009

From August 6 – 10, members of Bula’bula Arts attended the Garma Festival of Yolngu culture.  ANKAAA (the Association of Northern, Kimberley and Arnhem Aboriginal Artists Inc.) funded three Bula’bula artists and the curator to attend the annual celebration of Yolngu culture, held in the forest at Gulkula, Northeast Arnhem Land (near Nhulunbuy).  The three artists who attended the festival were ANKAAA board-member Richard Birrinbirrin, Peter Minygululu and Shirley Banalanydju.

A productive and enjoyable four days were spent camping amongst fellow artists and attending the following events:
* Garma Academic Key Forum, this year titled ‘Creative Industries’.
* the ANKAAA Arnhem Regional Meeting, where the group met with other local Art Centres and funding bodies to discuss important issues facing the individual art centres today.
* Yothu Yindu Foundation Printmaking Workshop.  Peter and Shirley each created a linocut print at the festival, with the possible opportunity of the foundation selecting their artwork for editioning.
* Visit to Buku Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre, in Yirrkala.
* Evening Bungul and entertainment.
 
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Date of birth : 1950

Language : Mandhalpuy

Clan : Mandhalpuy

Social Affiliations : Dhuwa moiety, Bilinydjan subsection

 

Mary Dhapalany is the sister of David Gulpilil, Peter Minygululu, Djelirr (1), Belinda Gunydjulma and Evonne Munuyngu.

Dhapalany has been making fibre objects for utilitarian and ritual use since her early teenage years.


Select Group Exhibitions:
1984, Objects & Representations from Ramingining, Power Institute [now MCA], Sydney
1993, Buyu Djama, Pandanus Weaving from Arnhem Land, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
2000, Yolngu Science: Objects and Representations from Ramingining, MCA, Sydney
2001, The Native Born: Objects and Representations from Ramingining, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
2002, Ramingining, Arte aborigen australiano de la Tierra de Arnhem, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
2002, The Native Born: Objects and Representations from Ramingining, Palacio de Velazquez, Parque del Retiro, Madrid
2002, Miyalk Djama, Indigenart, Subiaco
2003, Out of the Dilly Bag, Bright!, St Kilda, Victoria
2003, Sydney Aboriginal & Oceanic Art Fair, Circular Quay, Sydney
2003, The Native Born: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Ramingining, Australia, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA
2003, The Native Born: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Ramingining, Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Taipei, Taiwan
2005, Pandanus to Paper, Northern Editions, Charles Darwin University, Darwin
2006, 13 Canoes (an Adelaide Fringe event), South Australian Museum, Adelaide
2006, Bula’bula Arts in 3D, Gallerie Australis, Adelaide

Collections:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Maningrida Collection, Sydney
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ramingining Collection, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
South Australian Museum, Adelaide

Publications:
2000, Brambuk hosts visiting artists, Stawell Times News, June 30, 2000 p. 15 (with photo)
Mundine, Djon, 2001, The Native Born: Objects and Representations from Ramingining, Arnhem Land, MCA & Bula’bula Arts


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