Barayauwa Mununggurr (born 1980)

YARRINYA, 2013

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

192.0 x 75.0 cm

bears inscription on Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts label verso: artist’s name, location and cat. 4535Q

Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts, Yirrkala, Northern Territory
The McKay Superannuation Fund Art Collection, Brisbane

Primavera 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney, 24 September – 30 November 2014

This work is accompanied by a certificate from Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts which states: ‘Barayuwa has painted his mother’s Munyuku clan’s design, inspired by her brother, the late ritual specialist and artist Dula Nurruwutthun. It is associated with the ancestral events relating to the death of an ancestral whale called Mirinyunu on the beaches of the Munyuku saltwater estate of the Yarrinya within Blue Mud Bay.’