Footnotes

• PROVENANCE:
  Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre, Yirrkala, Northern Territory
  Purchased from Raft Artspace, Darwin in September 2006
  The Laverty Collection, Sydney
  
  EXHIBITED:
  TogArt Contemporary Art Exhibition 2006, Parliament House, Darwin, 18 July - 3 August 2006
  
  LITERATURE:
  Felicity Green (ed.), TogArt Contemporary Art Exhibition 2006, exh. cat., Darwin: Top End Arts Marketing, 2006, p.35 (illus.)
  Colin Laverty and Elizabeth Laverty et al., Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia's Remote Aboriginal Communities - the collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 2008, p.302 (illus.)
  Colin Laverty and Elizabeth Laverty et al., Beyond Sacred: Australian Aboriginal Art - the collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Edition II, Melbourne: Kleimeyer Industries, 2011, p.340 (illus.)
  
  This painting is sold with accompanying Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre documentation.
  
  WUKUN WANAMBI
  Wukun Wanambi came to light as an artist in
  spectacular fashion when his first ever bark painting
  won the 1998 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait
  Islander Art Award in the bark painting division. It had
  been included in the first edition of the catalogue of
  Saltwater; Yirrkala Bark Paintings of Sea Country, a national
  touring exhibition which contributed to the High
  Court's decision to recognise Indigenous sea rights
  in 2008. As the winning work was acquired by the
  Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
  it was replaced in the tour and subsequent editions of
  this book with a similar work.
  
  Wukun had been drafted to paint his saltwater country
  and was tutored by his cultural managers as
  his father, the artist Mithili, died when he was too young
  to learn. From 2007 to the present he has been the
  cultural manager of The Mulka Project, the digital arm
  of the Yirrkala art centre. He was highly commended
  in the 2003 NATSIAA and won the three dimensional
  category in 2010.
  
  His first memorial poles were included in the Kerry
  Stokes Collection Larrakitj which showed at the Sydney
  Biennale in 2010. He has had successful exhibitions at
  Raft Artspace and Niagara Galleries and been shown
  overseas in France, England, Singapore, China and
  the United States. He is in many major Australian and
  international institutional collections and on permanent
  display at the Bennelong restaurant at the Sydney Opera
  House and the Musée de Lyon.
  
  Will Stubbs

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Category: Fine Art / Aboriginal Art

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