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Injalak Arts
Injalak Arts (also known as Injalak Arts and Crafts) is a non-profit, community owned Aboriginal art centre located in Gunbalanya in West Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. It was incorporated in 1989. It is known for artists working in a primarily figurative style, and continuing and developing the West Arnhem rock art tradition. It is also known for pandanus weavings. Artists are mostly Kunwinjku people; however, artists from many language groups across Arnhem Land are represented. While working within the continuous art history of the Arnhem region, Injalak Arts is part of the wider contemporary Aboriginal Art movement, which has made a large impact on the Australian and international art world. History Development of the market The demand for art and artefacts from the Gunbalanya area began long before the incorporation of Injalak Arts and Crafts. Since early European contact, several notable collections were created and much informal trade took place. The a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Groger-Wurm
Helen Groger-Wurm, birth name Helene Gröger (1921–2005), was an Austrian-Australian ethnologist, anthropologist and linguist. After earning a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna in 1946, she married the Hungarian-born linguist Stefan Wurm. In 1954 the couple moved to Australia where they obtained Australian citizenship. They carried out field research in New Guinea and in northern Australia. From 1962 until her 1974, Groger-Wurm was a research officer (also co-founder) at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, lecturing in parallel on the aboriginal way of life at the Australian National University. She went on to take up work a librarian at the Australian National Library until her retirement in 1982. She is remembered in particular for her work in connection with aboriginal bark painting. Early life and education Born on 21 February 1921 in Vienna, Austria, Helene Gröger was the daughter of the bank employee Wilhelm Emanuel Gröger and his wife Antonia née Vecera. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thompson Yulidjirri
Thompson Yulidjirri (1930-2009) was an Aboriginal Australian artist of the Kunwinjku people of western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Yulidjirri was renowned for his wide knowledge of ancestral creation narratives and ceremony, his painting skills and mentorship of young artists at the Injalak Arts and Crafts centre.Anthony Murphy, "Thompson Yuludjirri," Unpublished obituary, 2009. Biography Thompson Yulidjirri was born in 1930 and raised on Croker Island by the artist Paddy Compass Namadbara, who adopted Yulidjirri after his parents' death at a young age. After an attack by Japanese planes during World War II, Yulidjirri and Namatbara moved to the coast of the Arafura Sea for safety, where he grew up in north east Arnhem Land. Yulidjirri worked at a saw mill in Murgenella as a teen and on the barge that dropped supplies to communities along the coast from Darwin. In early 1990s, Yulidjirri came to Injalak Arts to paint, and eventually began teaching an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Nganjmirra
Bobby Barrdjaray Nganjmirra (–1992) was a Kunwinjku Aboriginal artist of the Djalama clan and Yirridjdja moiety. Life He was born around 1915 at Malworn, between the Gumaderr and Liverpool Rivers, in West Arnhem Land, growing up primarily in a traditional lifestyle despite short periods spent at school in Gunbalanya and on Goulburn Island. Around the time he was 19-20 he went to Warruwi to marry Mary Lilinjdji of the Duwa moiety. He worked at the Oenpelli Mission alongside other artists in the 1960’s. In this time, his bark paintings were being collected by anthropologist Dorothy Bennett. He is amongst the best known of the early modern Kunwinjku bark painters and was a contemporary of artists such as Bardayal 'Lofty' Nadjamerrek and Yirawala. In a 2008 Sydney auction hosted by Bill Evans, one of Bobby's traditionally renditioned bark paintings attracted a sale of $2186. Stylistically, he painted in a more traditional style and favored the use of cross-hatching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Guymala
Joe Guymala (born 1969) is an Aboriginal Australian artist and musician of the Burdoh clan of the Kunwinjku people, known for his paintings on bark, paper and memorial poles known as ''lorrkkon''. Biography Joe Guymala was born in 1969 at Manmoyi outstation about east of Gunbalanya, Northern Territory. Guymala is a skilled musician and toured across Australia with both the Mimih and Nabarlek bands before turning to painting. Guymala wrote many songs about traditional stories and country in his time as a musician. Guymala also worked as a member of the Warddeken Rangers where he controlled feral animals, protected rock art sites, and managed controlled burns of country. Career Guymala began painting in 2010, influenced by his grandfather Namerredje Guymala who painted on barks and rock shelters. Guymala's early works are characteristic of traditional Kunwinjku style and feature a mixture of rarrk (cross-hatching) and rock-art style to portray kangaroos, fish, crows, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Maralngurra
Gabriel Maralngurra (born 1968) is an Aboriginal Australian artist from the Ngalangbali clan in West Arnhem Land. He is well-known and respected within his community for the wide range of responsibilities he takes on. His artwork is displayed in various collections including the Australia Museum, Museum Victoria, and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia. Early life Born and raised in Kunbarlanja, Maralngurra is the oldest of seven children. He recalls his father, William Maralngurra, teaching him impactful Dreamtime, Dreaming legends when growing up. In Aboriginal Australian cultures, Dreaming is the word used to explain the origin of life, cultural values, and law of the regions. It is these stories that have been passed down from his ancestry that have greatly influenced his art. Career Maralngurra is known for working with ochre on paper, as well as keeping the traditional forms of rock art, while combining new innovative techniques. The pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
