The Conversation

Review: Yirrkala Drawings bring luminous revelations

This exhibition is not just about art, it is about us: the land, the sea, our ancestors. Those words were spoken by Waka Munungurr, ceremonial leader and senior custodian, Djapu clan, at a preview ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Sacred Yirrkala drawings, depicting Yolngu life, returned from WA for Darwin show

When Gundimulk Marawili heard the crayon-on-paper drawings would be returning to the Northern Territory, she knew she had to go to the exhibition. Her "son's great grandfather", Mundukul Marawili, had ...
The Guardian

Yirrkala drawings, Art Gallery of New South Wales – review

This exhibition is not just about art, it is about us: the land, the sea, our ancestors. Those words were spoken by Waka Munungurr, ceremonial leader and senior custodian, Djapu clan, at a preview ...
The Art Newspaper

‘Our pattern, our document’: this Indigenous Australian community is using design to assert its rights

The senior Yolŋu elder and artist Yalmakany Marawili with her work in the Yolŋu power: the art of Yirrkala exhibition © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Diana ...
SBS

Yirrkala drawings displayed for the first time in Sydney

Elders and artists from Yirrkala in Arnhem Land have arrived in Sydney to see their ancestors drawings displayed on Gadigal land for the very first time. Eighty-one vibrant crayon drawings about ...
Sydney Morning Herald

‘Like nothing you have seen before’: Meet the artists entrancing New York

Yirrkala is a small settlement on the lip of the Gulf of Carpentaria boasting a post office, a school, childcare centre, stores and cafe serving a population of 800 people. The cultural influence of ...
The Guardian

Yolngu power: how a small Indigenous community in the Top End came to dominate Australian art

A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales celebrates the many artists of Yirrkala, across almost 300 works spanning bark paintings to neon lights Get our weekend culture and lifestyle ...
Sydney Morning Herald

Yolngu art holds secret historical code

The vivid colours and intricate designs are a testament to the dexterity of the Yolngu artists of north-eastern Arnhem Land. But the 81 crayon drawings displayed in the Art Gallery of NSW's Yirrkala ...
austin.culturemap

Blanton Museum of Art presents Perspectives: "The Art of Yirrkala"

Ethnomusicologist Eliot Stone will lead a discussion centered around "Art from Yirrkala" currently on display in exhibition "Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi ...
The Australian

Yirrkala stories float on shifting sea of colours

He had a large collection of bark paintings to send south, and no easy way to get them all on board. What to do? Carry the fragile works with their ochre designs head-high through the waves? Berndt ...
Asia Society

Asia Society Museum presents Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala

Asia Society Museum presents Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala, the first major exhibition of Aboriginal Australian bark paintings to tour the United States.