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MEDIUM AND THEME
Bark and Hollow Log painting using natural ochres
Wood carvings
Lino and Screen Print Making
Fabric
BIOGRAPHY
Father is the late Djutjadjutja. Resides at Yirrkala to work at Buku-Larrngay Mulka as manager of the print workshop. Marrnyula began working for the Buku-Larrngay Mulka Centre whilst Steve Fox was the art co-ordinator in the 1980's. As well as being an artworker she was brought up in one of the most artistically prolific camps in Yirrkala over this period. Both her mother Nongirrna and her father Djutjadjutja were constantly producing art with the help of their sons and daughters. She grew to assist her father (winner of the 1997 Best Bark painting prize for NATSIAA) with his sacred Djapu paintings as well as developing her own style of narrative naive paintings. All this whilst providing material support and leadership for her large family and being 'mother' to her brothers three children.
EXHIBITIONS
2008 After Berndt - Etchings from the Drawings, Gapan Gallery, Garma Festival, Gulkula, NT
2008 Etched in the Sun Prints made by Indigenous Artists in collaboration with Basil Hall & Printers 1997-2007 ANU, Canberra, ACT
2008 25th National Aboroiginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Galleries of the NT, Darwin, NT
2007 Bukulunthunmi - Coming Together, One Place, Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT
2007 Guluku Gallery, Festival of Darwin, NT
2007 Gapan Gallery, Gulkula, NT
2007 Mother and Daughter, Nongirna and Marrnyula, Annadale Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2006 Art d'Australie Galerie Seine 51, Paris, France
2006 Walking Together to Aid Aboriginal Health, Shalom College, NSW
2005 'Y kumirri', Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth, WA
2005 'Y kumirri', Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT (exhibition purchased by the Holmes a Court Collection)
2002-5 Tracking Cloth, various venues, Indonesia, Singapore, NSW, QLD, SA, VIC, Australian Embassy - Paris, France
2002 Marrnyula,Rafft Artspace, Darwin, NT
2001 Buku-Larrngay Printmakers, Alcaston House Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2001 Buku-Larrngay Printmakers, NT Universtiy, Darwin, NT
2000 17th National Aboroiginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Galleries of the NT, Darwin, NT
2000 Shell Fremantle Print Awards, Fremantle, WA
2000 Commissioned Bark Painting for 'Basic Needs Pavillion' World Expo, Hannover, Germany
2000 Ben Grady Gallery, Printmakers Tour Exhibition, Canberra, ACT
1999/2001 Saltwater Country - Bark Paintings from Yirrkala - A NAtional Tour, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT and John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Perth, WA
1999 Buku-Larrngay Printmakers, Original Dreamtime Gallery, Alice Springs, NT
1999 Buku-Larrngay Printmakers, Alcaston House Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1998 Buku-Larrngay Printmakers, NT Universtiy, Darwin, NT
1997 14th National Aboroiginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Galleries of the NT, Darwin, NT
1996 13th National Aboroiginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Galleries of the NT, Darwin, NT
1995 Miny'tji Buku-Larrngay, Paintings form the East, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
1994 11th National Aboroiginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Galleries of the NT, Darwin, NT
1994 Tyerabarrbowaryaou 2 I shall Never Become a Whiteman, 5th Havana Biennial, Cuba and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
1994 Don't Leave Me This Way, Art in the Age of AIDS, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
1990 Yirrkala Show, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
1989 Masterpiece Fine Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
COLLECTIONS
Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW
Flinders UNiversity Art Museum, Adelaide, SA
NGA, CAnberra, ACT
MAGNT, Darwin, NT
JW Kluge Collection, Virginia USA
National Maritime Museum- Saltwater Country, BArk Paintings from Yirrkala
Sydney Opera House, Sydney, NSW
National Museum of Australia
Singapore Art Gallery
Holmes a Court Collection
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
The Kerry Stokes Collection
Bibliography
Tyerabarrbowaryaou ii I shall Never become a WHite Man. 1994 MCA ISBN 1 875632 22 0
Saltwater - Yirrkala Bark Paintings of Sea COuntry. Buku-Larrngay Mulka centre with Jannifer Isaacs Publishing. ISBN 0 646 37702 7
Land Mark: Mirror Mark, publ. Northern Edition Printmakers, NT Uni 2000 pp18-22.
Marrnyula - exhibtion pamphlet, RAFT Artspace , Darwin 2002
Tracking Cloth- Exhibition Catalogue. Wollongong UNI. 2002
Art in the Age of Aids;Dont leave me this way, NGA 1994
Sotheby's Catalogue 2004
2008 Etched in the sun Prints made by INdigenous artists in collaboration with Basil Hall & Printers
1997-2007 ANU, Canberra
AWARDS
1994 Best Painting, Barunga FEstival Art Awards.
2002 Honourable Mention- Michael Long Testimonial Art Award.
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