Details of Barrupu Yunupingu (Rita)
About
MEDIUM AND THEME
Carvings, weavings,prints and bark paintings.
BIOGRAPHY
Barrupu is a daughter of Munggurraway. Her siblings include Australians of the year, Galarrwuy and Mandawuy and Gulumbu Telstra Prize Winner. Her mother from the Marrakulu clan was Bunay Wanambi, who was a cow herd for the mission at Yirrkala.
Barrapu has always lived at Yirrkala . As a child and with her father and family she went to the Yirrkala Mission School, taught by Mr Ron Croxford. With the school she travelled to Darwin with the Yirrkala netball team recalling also her athletic talent as a high jumper. At the Yirrkala clinic (now from where Buku-Larrnggay Mulka operates) Barrupu trained and worked as a nurse for many years till its closure in 1975.
Her closest sister is Nyapanyapa with whom she has worked as a print artist through Buku-Larrnggay since 1996.
Barrupu's output of bark paintings increased in 2007. The rise in prominence of Nyapanyapa's bark painting and subsequent successes in 2008 was catalyst in developing her own painting style that gained signature and firm interest from her art centre. In 2008 and into 2009 Barrupu has been working at her painting almost daily at the artcentre, the same place she worked as a nurse in the 60s and 70's.
EXHIBITIONS
2010 The White Show, Short St Gallery , Broome WA
2009 Barrupu Yunupingu Gallery Two Buku-larrnggay MUlka Centre, Yirrkala.
(inaugural Buku-Larrnggay in-house exhibtion, Garma 2009)
2009 Flames, FLoods and Honey, Bark paintings by Barrupu Yunupingu & Mulkun Wirrpanda, Cross Arts Projecy, Kings Cross, Sydney, NSW
2009 26th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, MAGNT, Darwin NT
2009 Rough Diamonds, Debut Painting Exhibition, Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT
2008 Etched in the Sun Prints made by Indigenous Artists in collaboration with Basil Hall & Printers 1997-2007 ANU, Canberra, ACT
2008 Yirrkala Prints, Galuku Gallery, Darwin, Botanical Gardens, NT
2008 Yirrkala Prints, Gapan Gallery, Gulka, Garma Festival, NT
2007 Yirrkala Prints, Galuku Gallery, Darwin, Botanical Gardens, NT
2007 Yirrkala Prints, Gapan Gallery, Gulka, Garma Festival, NT
2006 Yirrkala Prints, Galuku Gallery, Darwin, Botanical Gardens, NT
2006 Yirrkala Prints, Gapan Gallery, Gulka, Garma Festival, NT
2005 Yirrkala Prints, Galuku Gallery, Darwin, Botanical Gardens, NT
2005 Yirrkala Prints, Gapan Gallery, Gulka, Garma Festival, NT
2004 Yirrkala Prints, Galuku Gallery, Darwin, Botanical Gardens, NT
2004 Yirrkala Prints, Gapan Gallery, Gulka, Garma Festival, NT
2003 Yirrkala Prints, Gapan Gallery, Gulka, Garma Festival, NT
2003 Marwat, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2003 ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2003 Miami Art Fair, Florida, USA
2002 Yirrkala Prints, Gapan Gallery, Gulka, Garma Festival, NT
2002 ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2001 Yirrkala Screenprints, NTU, Darwin, NT
1999-2000 Yirrkala Printmakers Touring Exhibition:
Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Boomali Artists, Sydney, NSW, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra ACT
1999 August, Yirrkala Printmakers, The Original Dreamtime Gallery, Alice Springs, NT
1999 July, Yirrkala Printmakers and Dhalwangu Bark Paintings, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London UK
1999 April, Yirrkala Printmakers and Carvings by Djambawa Marawili, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1998 November, Japingka Gallery, Collaborative printmakers/selected artists works on bark and carving.
1998 September, Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Printmakers First Exhibition, NTU, Darwin, NT
1998 March, Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Printmakers First Exhibition, Yirrrkala, NT
COLLECTIONS
Berndt Museum - Centre for Anthropolgy - Perth, WA
Bibliography
2008 Etched in the sun Prints made by INdigenous artists in collaboration with
Basil Hall & Printers 1997-2007 ANU, Canberra
Artworks of Barrupu Yunupingu (Rita)
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