Seymour Wulida, Wak Wak, 80x42cm Bark Painting

..this being exists in the form of a rock, which is permanently submerged at the bottom of Kurrurldul Creek.

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Détails

Aboriginal Artist - Seymour Wulida
Community - Maningrida
Homeland - Kurrurldur
Aboriginal Art Centre - Maningrdia Arts
Catalogue number - 101-25
Materials - Earth pigments on stringybark
Size(cm) - H80 W42 D2 (irregular)
Orientation - As displayed
Postage variant - Delivered ready to hang with a metal mount on the reverse

Artwork

This painting depicts a sacred site at ‘Kurrurldul’, an outstation south of Maningrida.

The ‘rarrk’, or abstract crosshatching, on this work represents the design for the crow totem ancestor called ‘Djimarr’. Today this being exists in the form of a rock, which is permanently submerged at the bottom of Kurrurldul Creek. The ‘Djimarr’ rock in the stream at Kurrurldul is said to move around and call out in a soft hooting tone at night. Both the stone itself and the area around it are considered sacred.

The imagery represents the rock mentioned above at the bottom of Kurrurldul creek, which is the final transmutation of the dreaming ancestor ‘Djimarr’. Finally, the pattern used here is also the crow design used in the sacred ‘Mardayin’ ceremony, which is a large regional patri-moiety ceremony now rarely conducted in central and eastern Arnhem Land.

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An art movement that is striking, political and enduring: this is what contemporary artists in Maningrida and the surrounding homelands have built, powered by their ancestral connections to country and djang.

Ways of learning and schools of art in Arnhem Land are based around a system of passing knowledge and information on to others. The art here has its genesis in body design, rock art and cultural practices, in concert with more than 50 years of collaborations, travel and political action to retain ownership of country. Values and law are expressed through language, imagery, manikay (song), bunggul (dance), doloppo bim (bark painting), sculptures, and kun-madj (weaving) – the arts.

The artists’ transformation of djang into contemporary artistic expression has intrigued people around the world: art curators and collectors, and stars including Yoko Ono, Jane Campion, David Attenborough and Elton John. Pablo Picasso said of Yirawala’s paintings, ‘This is what I’ve been trying to achieve all my life.’

Yirawala (c.1897–1976) was a legendary Kuninjku leader, artist, land-rights activist and teacher, and his artwork was the first of any Indigenous artist to be collected by the National Gallery of Australia as part of a policy to represent in depth the most significant figures in Australian art.

Maningrida Arts & Culture is based on Kunibídji country in Arnhem Land in Australia’s Northern Territory. The area where artists live encompasses 7,000 square kilometres of land and sea, and over 100 clan estates, where people speak more than 12 distinct languages. Aboriginal people in this region are still on country, surviving and resilient because their country is the centre of their epistemology, their belief system, culture – djang.

Artists’ works from the larger Maningrida region can be seen in collections and institutions around the world. We work with museums, contemporary galleries and high-end retailers both nationally and internationally on projects throughout the year.

Text courtesy: Maningrida Arts and Culture

Art d’Arnhem Land des homelands de Maningrida

Cette œuvre provient de Maningrida Arts & Culture, basé sur le pays Kunibídji en Arnhem Land. Les artistes vivent dans des homelands couvrant plus de 7 000 km² de terre et de mer et plus de 100 domaines claniques, où de nombreuses langues distinctes sont parlées et où les communautés continuent de vivre sur leur Country.

— Image : Freda Ali Wayartja récoltant le pandanus, Maningrida Arts & Culture

"The art is beautiful, meaningful, and is getting alot of compliments in my office." - Marianne, Aus – ART ARK Customer Review