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    Nyapanyapa Yunupingu

    NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU
    born 1945
    lives and works in Yirrkala, NT
    Larrakitj - hollow log pole  2019
    ochre on Stringybark pole
    249cm x 18cm
    Acquired in 2019

    Nyapanyapa Yunupingu is woman of small stature, but big on style.  Her art practice is quite independent of any bark-painting tradition within the Arnhem Land region. She is the daughter of the famous cultural leader Munggurrawuy Yunupingu and sister to Galarrwuy and Mandawuy, both Australians of the Year. She is a widow and was the wife of Djiriny Manunggur, a Djapu clan leader.  Franchesca Cubillo, in Undisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2012.

    Yirrkala-based painter Nyapanyapa Yunupingu is one of Australia's leading contemporary indigenous artists and enjoys an international reputation.   

    Foremost among the works of Indigenous art in the Wesfarmers Collection are a selection of hollow log poles by artists of M

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    Nyapanyapa Yunupingu

    Australian painter (1945–2021)

    Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (1945 – 20 October 2021) was an Australian Yolngu painter and printmaker who lived and worked in the community at Yirrkala, Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory. Yunupingu created works of art that drastically diverge from the customs of the Yolngu people and made waves within the art world as a result. Due to this departure from tradition within her oeuvre, Yunupingu's work had varying receptions from within her community and the broader art world.

    Early life

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    Yunupingu was a Yolŋu woman of the Gumatj clan and was born in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, in 1945.[1] She was the daughter of Yolŋu artist and cultural leader Munggurrawuy Yunupingu (c.1905–1979), who was involved with the Yirrkala bark petitions.[2] Yunupingu's father taught her how to paint, allowing her to watch as he created various works.[3] In a conversation between Nyapanyapa Yunupingu and Wil

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