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Artist: Gulumbu Yunupingu |
| Exhibition: The Roving Eye |
| Date: May 31 2006 - July 27 2006 |
Curator: Gigantic ArtSpace
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Bio:
Gulumbu, the youngest sister of Galarrwuy (former Northern Land Council Chair and Australian of the Year) and Mandawuy Yunupinu (lead singer of Yothu Yindi and former Australian of the Year), lived as a child at Yirrkala and went to school in the old Mission house. She married Yirrkala Church Panel artist Mutitjpuy Munungurr and had four children, including Milkaynu Munugurr, original yidaki (didjeridu) player for the band Yothu Yindi. Her father is the senior Gumatj man Mungurrawuy, married to Makurrnu, who comes from the clan. She is an artist who works in many different media including weaving pandanas mats and baskets, painting on barks and yidaki, collecting shells to make jewellery, strings forearm-bands and for head-bands. She also studied as a Health worker through Miwatj Health. She has great knowledge of bush medicine and plant uses. She was one of the four translators of the Bible into Gumatj, working over 26 years. She works closely with Galarrwuy Yunupinuat the Garma Festival, working to educate non-indigenous people about Yolnu life.
In 2000 her work was represented at World Expo in Hannover, Germany with an installation of many small barks depicting the seven sisters constellation.
She has also branched out into screenprints, having works featured in Darwin at the Northern Territory University gallery, Alcaston Gallery in Melbourne, and at the 2004 Garma Festival Gapa] Gallery, where her print sold out in the first day. Following her First Prize in the Telstra Award 2004, her first solo show (a sell-out) at Alcaston Gallery and her invitation to be one of the eight indigenous artists to participate in the prestigious Quai de Branly Project in Paris, her work has become highly sought after. Gulumbu Yunupingu is represented by Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
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