Burrnanydji #2 Gaykamanu Lisa Australian, Yolngu, b. 1977

 

 

Burrnganydji helps her uncle Guwaykuway Wanambi(now deceased).She now paints in her own right.She began to paint in ahighly pedantic formal style with great detail at a very young age which was unusual in the case of a young woman whosepatrilineal line was from far to the West of the Miwatj side of NE Arnhem.It was a measure of his trust and respect for her that hegave her this role and she has continued to honour that precise style following his death