Lot 53
Djirrirra Wunungmurra(born 1968)Buyku, 2009
24 March 2013, 14:00 AEDT
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary ArtSold for AU$9,760 inc. premium
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Djirrirra Wunungmurra (born 1968)
Buyku, 2009
bears '3420-0 Djirrirra' on the reverse
natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
155 x 70cm (61 x 27 9/16in).
bears '3420-0 Djirrirra' on the reverse
natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
155 x 70cm (61 x 27 9/16in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE:
Painted at Yirrkala, Northern Territory
Purchased from Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre, Northern Territory in November 2009
The Laverty Collection, Sydney
EXHIBITED:
26th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 14 August - 25 October 2009, cat. no. 53
LITERATURE:
Colin Laverty and Elizabeth Laverty et al., Beyond Sacred: Australian Aboriginal Art - the collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Edition II, Melbourne: Kleimeyer Industries, 2011, p.345 (illus.)
This is an early example of the Buyku design with
which she won the 2008 Togart NT Contemporary Art
Award. She also won the 2012 National Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Her father and brother
are each major art award winners as well. Her father
Yanggarriny was the first Aboriginal artist to have his
copyright protected in a mainstream court in 1985.
This work incorporates her distinctive palette of
colours including an olive made from mixing black
and yellow ochres.
Will Stubbs