Yalangbara

Yalangbara: art of the Djang'kawu

Edited by: Margie West, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT)

'Yalangbara' is the first Indigenous art publication to focus upon one significant ancestral site. It has been produced on behalf of members of the Rirratjingu clan to celebrate Yalangbara (Port Bradshaw), the landing site of the Djang’kawu ancestors; the law-givers and progenitors of the people throughout north-east Arnhem Land.

Their creative activities are depicted by three generations of talented Marika artists, including Mawalan 1, Mathaman, Milirrpum, Roy, Wandjuk, Banduk, Dhuwarrwarr, Mawalan 2, Jimmy Barrmula and Wanyubi Marika. The accompanying text examines aspects of Yolngu (Aboriginal) aesthetics and material culture, history, myth, land ownership and copyright to show the complex interrelationship of these themes in Yolngu life.

At the time of publication, Margie West AM held the honorary position of Emeritus Curator of Aboriginal Art at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. She is an anthropologist with over thirty years of curatorial experience in Indigenous art. Since 1972 she has curated over forty semi-permanent and touring Aboriginal art exhibitions and has published extensively on Aboriginal art. Some of the recent publications she has edited include 'Transitions' (2000), 'Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award: Celebrating 20 years' (2004), 'ReCoil, Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art' (2007), she was also co-editor with Hetti Perkins on the 'One Sun One Moon' publication (2006).

Joint winner of the 2009 Chief Minister's Northern Territory History Book Award
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News Item: Exhibition, National Museum of Australia, December 2010

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• Poster, Mar 2009 (.pdf)

• News Item: Book Launch and Public Seminar, March 2009

• Flyer: Public Seminar, Mar 2009 (.pdf)

• News Item: Chief Minister's Northern Territory History Book Award, 2009

• News Item: Exhibition, National Museum of Australia, December 2010

• Link to exhibition at National Museum of Australia, December 2010

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