Nyapanyapa yunupingu biography sample

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  • Yolgnu artist Nyapanyapa Yunupingu won the Wandjuk Marika 3D Memorial prize in for her painting depicting her being attacked by a buffalo.
  • Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (Born c.

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    Djakaŋu
    Yunupiŋu

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    Homeland: Biranybirany
    Clan: Gumatj, Rrakpala group
    Moiety: Yirritja

    Father was Mungurrawuy Yunupiŋu. Among his other children are former Northern Land Council chairman Galarrwuy, Yothu Yindi lead singer Mandawuy, and Telstra Aboriginal Art Award first prize winner Gulumbu. Other sisters to win major art awards are Nyapanyapa and Djerrkŋu. Djakaŋu was married to well known yiḏaki (didjeridu) maker Baḏikupa Gurruwiwi (dec). She had three children, two sons and a daughter. Sadly her daughter died leaving Djakangu&#;s granddaughter in her care.

    Her mother from the Marrakulu clan was Bunay Wanambi, who was a cow herder for the mission at Yirrkala. As a child and with her father and family she went to the Yirrkala Mission School, taught by Mr Ron Croxford. Bunay&#;s other children in order were Nyapanyapa, Barrupu and Djakaŋu. As the other two became well known artists Djakaŋu only made occasional prints with the Yirrkala Print Space or sold

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    Celebrating Naidoc Week with Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu

    Indigenous Art

    NAIDOC stands for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee. Its origins can be traced to the emergence of Aboriginal groups in the ′s which sought to increase awareness in the wider community of the status and treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

    NAIDOC Week celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC Week is celebrated by all Australians and is a great opportunity to learn more about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.1

    This year’s theme is Heal Country! and calls for stronger measures to recognise, protect, and maintain all aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and heritage.

    Let us celebrate the wonderful contribution Indigenous artists are making, and have always made, to the Australian art scen. This year's Wynne Prize for the best landscape painting

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    In HerWords is a three-part series (adapted from the exhibition pamphlet edited by MOA Curator Carol E. Mayer) that offers a closer look at the artists behind the extraordinary art featured in the exhibition Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia. Each artist is presented here individually as she reflects on her work: how she learned to paint, what subjects she has painted, and why. The artists’ words are accompanied by a detail of selected paintings, offering a glimpse of the intimacy between each woman and her practice.

    Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia—on from November 1, to March 31, —makes its Canadian premiere at MOA and marks the first exhibition of all-women artists at the Museum. The nine artists—Nonggirrnga Marawili, Wintjiya Napaltjarri, Yukultji Napangati, Angelina Pwerle, Carlene West, Regina Pilawuk Wilson, Lena Yarinkura, Gulumbu Yunupingu, and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu—are important cult

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