Yirrkala drawings
By: edited by Cara Pinchbeck ; with essays by Andrew Blake, Howard Morphy and John Stanton
Contributors: Art Gallery of New South Wales; Queensland Art Gallery; Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Qld.)
Publisher: Art Gallery of NSW in association with Buku-Larrnggay Mulka and the University of Western Australia
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781741741032
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Art; Berndt Museum of Anthropology; Art collections; Yolngu (Australian people); Aboriginal Australian Drawing; Exhibitions
Description: In 1946-47 the senior ceremonial leaders of the Yirrkala region produced 365 vibrant crayon drawings on paper for the anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt. Held by the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia, the works have never been shown in any great number. In an unexpected palette of brilliant red, blue, yellow, green and black, they depict in exquisite detail the complexities of Yolngu life and cultural inheritance. They include works by those who became leading artists, including Mawalan and Wandjuk Marika, Munggurrawuy Yunupingu, Narritjin Maymuru and Wongu Mununggurr. The descendants of these artists continue to produce artworks, and a selection of these will also be displayed.--
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, December 12, 2013 - February 23, 2014 and the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, April 12 - July 20, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.