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Exhibition

Ḻiyagawumirr miny’tji – in association with Milingimbi Art and Culture

Where

Outstation Gallery
8 Parap Place
Parap, 0820
Darwin, Northern Territory

Ḻiyagawumirr miny’tji is a small but elegant exhibition of bark and fibre works by highly regarded senior artists and accomplished weavers Helen Ganalmirriwuy and Margaret Rarru.

Working side by side in Milingimbi, East Arnhem Land, Helen and Margaret have collaborated on woven objects which were exhibited alongside artworks by the other finalists in the 2008 National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Art Award.

While minimal and abstract in their aesthetic, the beautiful artworks on show are imbued with a deep knowledge of sacred sites and significant moments in the journey of the ancestral spirit beings who travelled across country, creating the landforms that exist today.

Rarru’s use of mol (black) dye is significant in that she refined the recipe herself and authorises the use of black dye by certain artists.  Both Ganalmirriwuy and Rarru are continually inventing new ways of working that incorporate the wisdom and experience and those who came before them.

Mol Mindirr (black conical basket) Margaret Rarru

Reserved  —  Details  /  Enquire

Mol Mindirr (black conical basket) Helen Ganalmirriwuy

A$1,250  —  Details  /  Enquire

Mol Mindirr (black conical basket) Margaret Rarru

Reserved  —  Details  /  Enquire

Mol Mindirr (black conical basket) Margaret Rarru

Reserved  —  Details  /  Enquire

Garrawurra mindirr Margaret Rarru

A$950  —  Details  /  Enquire

Mol Mindirr (black conical basket) Margaret Rarru

Reserved  —  Details  /  Enquire

Djirrididi (Garrawurra body design) Helen Ganalmirriwuy

A$2,100  —  Details  /  Enquire

Djirrididi (Garrawurra body design) Margaret Rarru

A$4,900  —  Details  /  Enquire

Milmindjarrk at Garriyak (sacred waterholes at Garriyak) Margaret Rarru

A$5,500  —  Details  /  Enquire

Djirrididi (Garrawurra body design) Ruth Nalmakarra

A$1,700  —  Details  /  Enquire

Djirrididi (Garrawurra body design) Mandy Batjula Gaykamangu

A$1,500  —  Details  /  Enquire

Djirrididi (Garrawurra body design) Margaret Rarru

A$1,700  —  Details  /  Enquire

Milmindjarrk at Garriyak (sacred waterholes at Garriyak) Margaret Rarru

A$1,700  —  Details  /  Enquire

Djirrididi (Garrawurra body design) Margaret Rarru

A$1,700  —  Details  /  Enquire

Mayaltha Margaret Rarru

A$2,050  —  Details  /  Enquire

Djirrididi (Garrawurra body design) Helen Ganalmirriwuy

A$1,400  —  Details  /  Enquire

Djirrididi (Garrawurra body design) Helen Ganalmirriwuy

A$1,400  —  Details  /  Enquire

Djirrididi (Garrawurra body design) Helen Ganalmirriwuy

A$1,150  —  Details  /  Enquire