Sad news from Yirrkala

Another sad day for the community and Art Centre at Yirrkala. Buku Larnggay Mulka will be missing one of their most prolific and enthusiastic artists today. Ms N Yunupingu was a wonderful, dynamic and dedicated painter and printmaker at the art centre for many years and her quiet presence, often in the middle of – and dwarfed by – a massive bark or board, was so much a part of daily life there. Thank you for making beautiful etchings, screen prints, carvings…you would happily paint your quirky designs onto anything that was placed in front of you – paper, metal, lino, bark – and often on the board underneath too! I particularly loved the Seven Sisters Project that you and your sisters completed in 2012. This image is one you did on a huge etching plate alongside your family, two of whom have also departed since.