Barayuwa Munuŋgurr (also known as Djirkurrul, Gulukurru) is a long-time staff member of Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Art Centre in Yirrkala. Munuŋgurr is a member of a younger generation of Yolngu artists, all of whom carry with them an unending connection to their cultural lineage. Through their emerging art practices, these traditional storylines meet with contemporary methods of art-making.
Selected Works
Selected Works
etched steel panel
90 × 51.5 cm
BM2024-11
etched metal panel
59.5 × 54.5 cm
BM2024-4
etched steel panel
74.5 × 74.5 cm
BM2024-3
etched metal panel
59 × 59 cm
BM2024-8
etched metal panel
75 × 75 cm
BM2024-5
etched steel panel
148 × 74 cm
natural pigment on bark
207 × 93 cm
BM2024-2
etched steel panel
145 × 60 cm
BM2024-20
etched steel panel
75 × 45 cm
BM2024-23
etched steel panel
74.5 × 74.5 cm
BM2024-14
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About
Barayuwa Munuŋgurr
Biography
Barayuwa Munuŋgurr (also known as Djirkurrul, Gulukurru) is a long-time staff member of Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Art Centre in Yirrkala. Munuŋgurr is a member of a younger generation of Yolngu artists, all of whom carry with them an unending connection to their cultural lineage. Through their emerging art practices, these traditional storylines meet with contemporary methods of art-making.
Barayuwa Munuŋgurr paints his own Djapu designs as well as the Munyuku clan designs of his mother Bengitj’s homeland, Yarrinya. Yarrinya is also the motherland of his paternal grandfather, Wonggu Munuŋgurr.
The vibrant patterns that originate from his mother’s Munyuku clan designs recall an ancestral story that took place on the Yarrinya saltwater estate, in which Munyuku spirit men hunt their own brother, a whale called Mirinyuŋu. In addition to painting, Barayuwa makes yidaki (didgeridu), galpu (spearthrowers), gara (spears) and bilma (clapsticks).
Barayuwa has been exhibiting since 2007. His exhibitions include Yarrinya, Sullivan+Strumpf Gadigal/Sydney (2024); Primavera, MCA (2014); Living Waters, Monaco Oceanographic Institute (2016); Rambangi: Together as Equals, with Ruark Lewis, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin (2015); Barayuwa Mununggurr, Outstation Gallery, Darwin (2015); Gapan Gallery, GARMA Festival (2013); Gadawulkwulk Means Shelter (with Ruark Lewis), Cross Art Projects, Sydney (2012); Arboreal, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney (2011); Returning to Djakapurra – A Collection of Poles and Barks from Yirrkala, Redot Gallery, Singapore (2010); After Berndt, Indigenart, Mossenson Gallery, Perth (2009); New Generations: Yirrkala Artists, Creative Economy, Brisbane (2008); and Galuku Gallery, Darwin Festival Print Exhibition, Darwin (2007).
Barayuwa Munuŋgurr, 2024. Photography by Outstation Gallery and Fiona Morrison.
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