MULKUN WIRRPANDA - YARRANU
MULKUN WIRRPANDA
YARRANU, 2021
53.5 x 27.5 cm
Natural Earth Pigments on Bark
REGION
Yirrkala NE Arnhem Land, NT
PROVENANCE
Buku Larrngay Arts, NT
Cooee Art Leven, NSW
STORY
This is the essay that accompanied this work in 'Mulkuṉ Wirrpanda-the Last Exhibition' held at Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery in April 2021.
As described in this essay her last phase was a series of works of organic white paintings referencing shellfish and mangroves completed at a time when she was physically weakened from illness but still cheerful and loving her painting. The particular creature in this work is Yarranu which she described as a larger version of Warrapal- the Variegated Venus Clam Tapes dorsatus. Typically this knowledge is not included in the definitive text on this subject Maypal by Bentley James.
ARTIST PROFILE
