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  • Lisa Lalaywarra, Woven Mat, 130cm
  • Lisa Lalaywarra, Woven Mat, 130cm
  • Lisa Lalaywarra, Woven Mat, 130cm

Lisa Lalaywarra, Woven Mat, 130cm

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Community Certified Artwork

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  • Aboriginal Artist - Lisa Lalaywarra
  • Community - Ramingining
  • Homeland -
  • Aboriginal Art Centre - Bula'Bula Arts
  • Catalogue number - 420-26
  • Materials - Pandanus and Natural Dyes
  • Size(cm) - Total: D130 Centre: D68

Traditionally, Nganiyal (conical mats) were used as an insect screen when erected, and as a sitting mat when folded. They are used in Ceremony as well as a functional item. Nowadays, artists weave many different shapes including flat, round and oblong.

Lisa Gurrulpa is an early-career weaver who has spent much of her life raising her children and, more recently, caring for her grandchildren. She is the wife of senior artist Bobby Bununggurr (dec). While Lisa is often shy and quiet at the art centre, her true personality shines when she is out on Country. In the bush, gathering materials, she comes alive, laughing, telling funny stories, and sharing moments with the other women. Lisa loves working alongside the women weavers, harvesting and collecting natural fibres and dyes to create beautiful fibre art pieces that are deeply connected to place, culture, and community.

From fibre art to paintings depicting traditional stories—internationally renowned Bula’bula Arts supports 150 artist members from Ramingining and its surrounding outstations. Our arts centre is an iconic tropical elevation style building in the heart of the Ramingining community in Central Arnhem Land, 400 kilometres east of Darwin.

Local artists coined the name Bula’Bula meaning the voice/tongue of Gandayala (red kangaroo) Ramingining’s Creation Being. The name represents the message in the song cycle of the red kangaroo’s journey from the Roper River to the Ramingining region. The story is depicted in unique Ramingining-style—steeped in spiritual, ritual and historical narratives across a variety of mediums: print, painting, sculpture, fibre art, song, dance, as well as film and literature mediums.

Text: Bula'bula Arts 

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